Job description

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced data engineer to join our team. Big Cartel is a mature company with a comparatively immature data stack. We need someone with a track record of architecting data pipelines to help us build a robust reporting infrastructure that can support our business needs. This person should have extremely strong technical skills and be a great peer and collaborator. We need someone who can translate high level requirements into data models and supporting software, tooling, and infrastructure. We're primarily a Ruby/Rails shop. Past experience with Rails is a plus but not a hard requirement. Ideal candidates are eager to not only build reporting around existing data but are eager to dive into codebases and help implement new data collection where it doesn't currently exist. Initial work will primarily be to support business users in decision making but future efforts around customer focused analytics are also being planned.

About Big Cartel

Big Cartel is an e-commerce platform that gives creators, artists, makers, and small brands from all over the world the power to open their own online stores and make a living doing what they love. Since 2005, we’ve helped people sell over $3.5 billion of their work while remaining a 100% independent company. Driven by our passion for creativity and innovation, we stand as a haven for small brands connecting their passion with opportunity. As we love to say, “you don’t have to sell out to sell online”.

Job requirements

In this role you will…

• Become a domain expert in Big Cartel’s production data collections
• Build and manage an internal data warehouse for reporting
• Explain and document data warehouse tables
• Translate abstract stakeholder requests into actionable data delivered either realtime or on a schedule
• Clean missing/unreliable data to minimize reporting gotchas
• Implement platform features (with an emphasis on data/analytics) as a member of the broader engineering team

You will be a great fit for this role if you…

• Favor pragmatic, cost effective solutions
• Have excellent written and verbal communication
  
• Are laser focused on business objectives
• Are comfortable getting your hands dirty and building up data warehouses and pipelines from scratch

Tools we use

• Mage
• DBT
• Snowflake
• Tableau
• Amplitude
• Kubernetes
• MySQL
• Rails