Data Engineer

ScaleAdvantage Corp; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 128,000; Part time

Job summary

ScaleAdvantage Corp in Louisville, KY seeks a Data Engineer to own critical backend and analytics work. The role offers part-time hours with a salary range of $83,000 to $128,000, reflecting flexibility and growth potential.

You will collaborate with product teams, own the data mining stream, and translate shifting business needs into concrete tasks using Looker and related tooling. The position emphasizes autonomy, mentoring, and continuous improvement within ScaleAdvantage Corp's Louisville

Qualifications

• Translate business requirements into technical specs.
• Work independently with minimal oversight.
• Comfort with a fast-paced engineering culture.
• Experience with backend services and Looker.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate NumPy tradeoffs with product given timelines.
• Own the data mining workstream to unblock Louisville roadmap.
• Translate evolving business requirements into tasks.
• Carry reinforcement learning platform work for KY expansion.
• Tune feature engineering caching for Louisville launch spike.
• Design, build and maintain backend services with Looker.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across environments.

Skills

Autonomous work

Effective communicator

Mentoring

Feature engineering

Looker curiosity

Tools

Looker

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at ScaleAdvantage Corp we want that someone to be our next Data Engineer. This KY role reads like an upgrade — $83,000 - $128,000, part-time hours, 6 years valued, and a path that does not dead-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Negotiate NumPy tradeoffs with product when ScaleAdvantage Corp timelines and reality collide
• Own the senior Data Mining workstream that unblocks the rest of ScaleAdvantage Corp's Louisville, KY roadmap
• Translate endlessly-iterating business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Carry the Reinforcement Learning platform work that makes ScaleAdvantage Corp's next KY expansion boring
• Tune Feature Engineering caching so ScaleAdvantage Corp survives the Louisville launch spike on the same hardware
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Stakeholder Management and Looker
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production

What You'll Bring

• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• Comfort with a ScaleAdvantage Corp pace that rarely sits still
• Equal parts Feature Engineering depth and Looker curiosity
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard

The ownership-driven founders of ScaleAdvantage Corp built it in Louisville to fix the exact technology problems that drove them crazy elsewhere. The ScaleAdvantage Corp promise is plain: clear expectations, real autonomy, and zero surprise reviews.

We hand you $83,000 - $128,000, a growth plan, a mentor, and benefits, then let you flex your week to fit Louisville the way you like.

Confirmed unfilled today, ScaleAdvantage Corp continues its search in real time.