Analytics Engineer

Higharc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Flexible hours

401(k) stipend

Maternity/paternity leave

Job summary

Higharc is a remote-first startup seeking an Analytics Engineer to own data modeling, metrics, and analytics views in Looker and Observable. You will direct data infrastructure and collaborate with product, success, and engineering teams to surface trusted insights for builders and internal teams.

We value 6+ years in analytics, strong SQL, and experience with data warehouses like BigQuery and S3, plus BI tools such as Looker or Observable.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in analytics, data science, or BI, owning end-to-end work.
• Proven SQL optimization in a business context.
• Hands-on with BI tools such as Looker or Observable.
• Experience with data warehouses/pipelines (BigQuery/S3) and product analytics.
• Track record building internal and customer-facing dashboards.
• Able to manage fast-paced, ambiguous projects with organization.
• Judgment on what data belongs to which audience.

Responsibilities

• Own analytics models, metric definitions, and views in Looker/Observable.
• Collaborate with infra to ship polished data views for enterprise builders.
• Define metrics with Product and Customer Success and build reporting.
• Set direction for the analytics stack and reporting locations.
• Own data infrastructure decisions and instrumentation across systems.
• Apply modeling and statistics to identify trends and anomalies.
• Create a triage process for analytics requests to prioritize work.

Skills

Analytics strategy

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

Dashboard design

Communication

Tools

Looker

Observable

BigQuery

S3

PostHog

Job description

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Higharc is seeking an expert Analytics Engineer to own how data is structured, understood, and surfaced across our platform for the builders who use our product and for the Product and Customer Success teams who depend on their own internal analytics. This is a net-new role on the Software Engineering team, created because our largest customers are asking harder analytics questions than anyone currently owns.

What You\'ll Do

You own the data itself: the analytics models, the metric definitions, and the views built in tools like Looker and Observable. You decide what belongs in front of which audience, and you direct the work our infrastructure and engineering teams need to do to get the right data into the system in the first place. You\'ll turn current workflows into a coherent plan, then build against it.

Expect to:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data models and views in Looker/Observable that serve both customer-facing and internal analytics
• Partner with engineering to design and ship polished customer-facing data views for enterprise builders
• Work with Product and Customer Success to define the metrics they need to make decisions, then build the reporting behind them
• Set direction for our analytics stack and decide where each piece of reporting should live
• Own decisions about data infrastructure and instrumentation, including how data flows between systems like BigQuery and S3, and where product analytics tracking such as PostHog needs to change
• Use data modeling, statistics, and analytical techniques to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies across large datasets
• Build a triage process for incoming analytics requests across the org so priorities are clear and the queue doesn\'t run you
• Serve as the clear, trusted owner of "what the data says"

About You

You know what data matters to builders versus internal stakeholders, not just how to report it. You\'re comfortable walking into a messy, competing set of requests and turning it into a plan without being handed one. You earn buy-in from infra, integration, and frontend teams you don\'t manage, and you\'re fine directing engineering priorities without owning the build yourself. You treat the org\'s data needs as your responsibility rather than a ticket queue.

You can translate cleanly in both directions: explaining a model to an engineer and explaining an insight to someone who will never open a SQL editor.

You have:

• 6+ years in analytics, data science, or business intelligence, owning work end-to-end from modeling through presentation
• Proven expertise writing and optimizing SQL in a business context, with strong data modeling fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with a BI/visualization tool such as Looker or Observable
• Experience with data warehouses and pipelines (BigQuery, S3, or equivalent) and product analytics tools (PostHog or similar)
• A track record building both internal and customer-facing dashboards and reporting
• Strong ability to manage fast-paced, ambiguous projects with a high degree of organization and independence
• Sharp judgment about what data belongs in front of which audience

A major plus if you also bring:

• Experience delivering analytics to large enterprise customers with their own reporting requirements
• Background in construction tech, homebuilding, or another complex physical-world domain

Working at Higharc

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company. Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You\'ll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven\'t worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.

Please note: we are seeing an uptick of fraudulent recruiting activity claiming to be associated with Higharc. All communication and outreach from our in-house team will come from an @higharc.com email address.