Data Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Iowa City (IA); Remote; USD 104,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Shopping Solutions Plus in Iowa City seeks a senior Data Engineer who can turn mission-driven ideas about Vector Databases into a product customers never have to think about. The role offers $104,000–$153,000, remote hours, and a technology team that will hand you the keys.

You’ll work with LangChain and Pandas to build reliable data pipelines, rewrite legacy code, and scale services from a local pilot to an IA-wide rollout.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of senior data engineering experience.
• Experience with Vector Databases is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate compliance rules into guardrails in the build.
• Refactor critical modules with care.
• Ship data engineering rewrites to reduce technical debt.
• Scale LangChain services from pilot to IA-wide rollout.

Skills

LangChain

Pandas

Data Engineering

Communication

Tools

Python

Job description

Shopping Solutions Plus is looking for a senior Data Engineer who can turn mission-soaked ideas about Vector Databases into something a customer never has to think about. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $104,000 - $153,000, remote hours, and a technology team at Shopping Solutions Plus that actually hands you the keys.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate technology compliance rules into Interpersonal Skills guardrails baked into the build
• Refactor the technology module Shopping Solutions Plus has been afraid to touch
• Ship the R people-first rewrite that pays down years of Shopping Solutions Plus technical debt
• Catch the LangChain race conditions that only surface under Iowa City peak traffic
• Scale Shopping Solutions Plus's LangChain services from Iowa City pilot to IA-wide rollout
• Pull Pandas telemetry into dashboards Shopping Solutions Plus leaders actually open

What You'll Bring

• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Working knowledge of LangChain alongside transferable Relationship Building chops
• Prior experience working on-site in Iowa City, IA, or willingness to relocate
• Real curiosity about why Shopping Solutions Plus customers do what they do
• 6+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
• Proven track record delivering results as a senior Data Engineer

A documentation-first startup out of Iowa City, Shopping Solutions Plus is rethinking what technology software can be. Feedback flows in every direction, so good ideas reach the table no matter who voices them.

Lead with the number, $104,000 - $153,000, then add a growth track, a mentor, full benefits, and hours that bend toward your Iowa City life.

The team just got the green light to hire, and this Data Engineer role is first up.

We're looking for the person who reads technology job posts and thinks I could fix that.