Senior Data Engineer

Recharge; United States; On-site; USD 148,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Remote stipends

Job summary

Recharge is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable data models and infrastructure powering internal business analytics and customer-facing data products. Your work will empower data analysts to derive deeper strategic insights from our data and surface data and metrics to merchants.

You will design ELT pipelines, implement data strategies with business and product teams, and build end-to-end interfaces for analytics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a data engineering role with scalable data pipelines/analytics
• 3+ years building data pipelines and models for large data volumes into a Dimensional Data Warehouse/Data Lake
• Experience with data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, RDS) and cloud stacks (AWS, GCP)
• Experience powering external, customer-facing analytics apps in addition to internal analytics
• Knowledge of Kimball and Inmon data warehousing methodologies
• Experience with ETL tools (FiveTran, dbt, Python)
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Cloud Composer)
• Hands-on with data infra (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Proficiency in SQL and Python

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines, ELT and infrastructure for internal analytics and external data products
• Create automated monitoring, auditing and alerting for data quality
• Collaborate with business and solution teams to implement data strategies and data models
• Deliver data and metrics via AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude) with a governed semantic layer
• Improve operations and performance of the data warehouse
• Communicate with stakeholders at all levels
• Redesign data processes using AI to boost productivity and data quality
• Champion company values: day-one ownership empathy humility

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL

Airflow

Kubernetes

Docker

Data warehousing

Stakeholder communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

dbt

FiveTran

Cloud Composer

Job description

Recharge is the subscription platform for the world’s fastest-growing and most innovative brands. Shopify’s premier subscription solution, Recharge is on a mission to build the future of commerce around customer retention.

Known for its relentless product innovation and focus on ease of use, Recharge helps merchants deliver seamless customer experiences that drive customer retention and revenue growth. The Recharge platform leverages data from over 100 million shoppers to help brands more successfully set up, manage, and grow their subscription businesses.

Recharge is a hands‑on partner to over 20,000 brands globally — including quip, Dr. Squatch, Blueland, Estrid, Oats Overnight, Bobbie, and more.

Learn more at: getrecharge.com

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will build scalable data models and infrastructure that power internal business analytics and customer-facing data products. Your work will empower data analysts to derive deeper strategic insights from our data, and will build end‑to‑end interfaces and integrations that surface data and metric insights directly to our merchants.

What You’ll Do

• Build data pipeline, ELT and infrastructure solutions to power internal data analytics/science and external, customer-facing data products.
• Create automated monitoring, auditing and alerting processes that ensure data quality and consistency.
• Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models
• Build next‑generation analytics by delivering trusted data and metrics via AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude), including a governed semantic layer and MCP-based interfaces for internal and external users.
• Seek ways to continually improve the operations, monitoring and performance of the data warehouse
• Influence and communicate with all levels of stakeholders including analysts, developers, business users, and executives.
• Redesign and optimize existing data processes using AI (e.g., LLM-assisted development, automated documentation, issue resolution) to improve team productivity and enhance data quality across the data warehouse
• Live by and champion our values: #day‑one, #ownership, #empathy, #humility.

What You’ll Bring

• Typically, 5+ years experience in a data engineering related role (Data Engineer, Data Platform Engineer, Analytics Engineer etc) with a track record of building scalable data pipeline, transformation, and platform solutions.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience designing and building data pipelines and models to ingesting, transforming and delivery of large amounts of data, from multiple sources into a Dimensional (Star Schema) Data Warehouse, Data Lake.
• Experience with a variety of data warehouse, data lake and enterprise data management platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, RDS, AWS, GCP)
• Experience building data pipelines, models and infrastructure powering external, customer‑facing (in addition to internal business facing) analytics applications.
• Solid grasp to data warehousing methodologies like Kimball and Inmon
• Experience working with a variety of ETL tools. (FiveTran, dbt, Python etc)
• Experience with workflow orchestration management engines such as Airflow & Cloud Composer
• Hands on experience with Data Infra tools like Kubernetes, Docker
• Expert proficiency in SQL
• Strong Python proficiency

Compensation

Recharge’s compensation offerings are grounded in a pay‑for‑performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. Salary ranges are designed to be competitive and aligned with country specific practices, while individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, and experience. The compensation listed is not inclusive of any equity and benefits that might exist in your total compensation package.

• Hiring range in the US $148,000 USD - $185,000 USD
• Hiring range in Canada $108,000 CAD - $136,000 CAD

Interview recording & AI notetakers

To protect privacy, legal compliance, and interviewer/candidate experience, recording, transcribing, or using AI notetaker tools during interviews is not permitted without our prior written consent. Handwritten notes are welcome. If you need an accommodation (e.g., captions), email [e-mail] before your interview—we’ll arrange an approved solution.

Benefits At a Glance

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Retirement plan with employer contribution
• Flexible Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Remote Life and Merchant stipends

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