Senior Data Engineer

SimplyAnalytics; Toronto; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its data processing capabilities. This role involves designing and developing tools for data manipulation, overseeing data workflows, and ensuring high standards of code quality. Join a collaborative, fully remote team that values work-life balance and professional growth. With a focus on analytics and visualization, your contributions will significantly impact users across various sectors. If you're passionate about data and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

20 Personal Days Off

Quarterly Professional Development Days

Remote Work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, especially in PHP and Python.
• Strong skills in data processing, relational databases, and orchestration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data processing tools and features.
• Maintain data pipelines and write scalable, maintainable code.

Skills

Software Development

PHP

Python

Data Processing

Attention to Detail

Linux CLI

Data Manipulation

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Dask

Dagster

Job description

The Company

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful spatial analytics and data visualization application used by thousands of business, marketing, and social science researchers in the United States and Canada. It comes pre-packaged with 200,000+ data variables and allows our users to create maps, charts, tabular reports, and crosstabs. We are passionate about creating outstanding software, and we believe in test driven development, continuous integration, and code review.

As a smaller company, each of our developers has an important role to play - at SimplyAnalytics, you are not just another cog in the wheel, you are an integral member of our team. You will be working on valuable features and making key decisions that impact the direction of the product and our users. In addition, we provide an excellent work-life balance, with 100% remote work, 20 personal days off, flexible work hours, a collaborative work environment, and quarterly “professional development days” to explore and share your interests with the rest of the team.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to process datasets, manage our existing data workflows, develop and maintain ETL pipelines, conduct data related QA, and supervise a team of data developers. You will be creating and maintaining production-quality in-house tools within a large shared code base, and the data you curate will be used by thousands of university students, researchers, and marketing professionals.

We use PHP and Python for development, Postgres/PostGIS for data storage, and Dask and Dagster for data orchestration. We also use modern software development practices such as static typing and analysis, as well as automated testing.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.

We are a 100% remote company. Our employees can live and work anywhere in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. This is a full-time salaried position. When applying, please include a cover letter.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and test data processing related tools and features
2. Process datasets through our data pipelines
3. Write high-quality, clean, scalable, maintainable code
4. Contribute ideas for new data processing tools or improvements to existing tools
5. Assist colleagues through code-review, collaboration, and troubleshooting

Required:

1. 5+ years of professional software development work experience
2. 3+ years of experience working with large PHP codebases
3. 3+ years of experience working with large Python codebases
4. Comfortable using Linux CLI
5. Experience with PostgreSQL
6. Advanced relational database and data manipulation skills
7. Experience with data orchestration platforms (e.g., Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect)
8. Ability to maintain our full data processing stack in PHP and Python
9. Experience with Docker

Bonus:

1. Experience with geospatial demographic, business, marketing, or health data
2. Experience with PostGIS
3. Experience with Mypy or other static analyzers
4. Experience with AWS