Company Description

Reverb is the largest online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments. Since launching in 2013, Reverb has grown into a vibrant community of buyers and sellers all over the world. By focusing on inspiring content, price transparency, musician-focused eCommerce tools, a music-savvy customer service team, and more, Reverb has created an online destination where the global music community can connect over the perfect piece of music gear.

We believe that music makes the world a better place, which is why our mission is to make the world more musical. Through Reverb Gives, a portion of every sale provides youth music education programs across the world with instruments they need to make music.

Job Description

Our Engineering organization takes pride in crafting extraordinary software in service of our mission. We take an active role in product ownership by measuring the impact of features we release, collaborating with internal partners, fixing bugs, and ultimately building products and features that have a measurable impact on the business. Our team works together, pairing on design and coding patterns, peer-reviewing code, and elevating other developers through continuous mentorship and learning opportunities.

As part of Reverb’s Data Engineering team, you’ll help build a platform to enable confident, informed decisions and products that scale along with our business. We are a small, forward-thinking team looking for creative engineers who can face a wide range of problems, researching and implementing innovative solutions that make the most of our data.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager of our Data team. We are open to remote hires within multiple states, as well as candidates local to Chicago, IL. For candidates who will work remotely visit this link for a list of approved locations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve our data pipeline and data warehouse to ensure our users have timely access to accurate data. Our current stack uses Python, Airflow, Redshift, DBT, Looker, and more.
• Collaborate with data analysts and other internal partners across the organization to find exciting insights within our data and make them available to our product teams.
• Partner with our data science team to model, train, and apply machine learning models to new areas within our product.
• Build and share a deep understanding of your chosen languages, framework, or other area of expertise. Push yourself and the team to be continuously learning and growing.
• Demonstrate a sense of ownership for your work including understanding requirements, crafting solutions, and building robust testing plans to ensure the highest data quality.
• Participate in pairing sessions, code reviews and other team rituals.

Qualifications

We use a wide variety of languages, frameworks, and databases, so there are many skills and experiences that would make you a good fit for our team, including, but not limited to:

• Python and/or Ruby experience, either in web applications or data engineering applications.
• ETL pipelines and data warehousing solutions such as Airflow or Redshift.
• Relational databases including data modeling, performance and other optimizations, and SQL queries.
• Understanding of different types of data storage and their trade-offs.
• High-level understanding and/or interest in machine learning techniques and their applications.
• Ability to work and connect with engineering peers, data analysts, and other business partners.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.
• Experience in agile development.

Additional Information

Reverb offers compensation packages that include base, bonus, and equity in the form of Etsy restricted stock units. Some of our key benefits include but are not limited to the following:

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents (you read it right: no premiums!)
• Life, AD&D, and supplemental long-and short-term disability insurance
• A matching 401(k)
• A generous PTO policy that includes vacation, sick/mental health days plus 11 paid holidays and two floating holidays.
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
• Up to $7,500 reimbursement of adoption-related expenses
• Paid sabbatical program
• Ways to give back to your community through a charitable contribution match and volunteer time off

At Reverb, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant and resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Reverb is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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