Senior Data Engineer - Remote, Scalable Pipelines

Talentify; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Parental leave

Retirement contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Talentify is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract (remote) to lead analytics and build scalable data pipelines across our real estate software products.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, support, and marketing to translate business needs into data models, implement pipelines handling billions of rows, and ensure reliability with monitoring and automation. Strong SQL and Python/Java/Scala skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS+ in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining data-intensive applications.
• Experience developing data pipelines scaling to billions of rows with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Extensive experience with modern data technologies such as Spark and Airflow.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Extensive experience with SQL.
• Proven data modeling experience, translating business requirements into clean and easily evolvable data models.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a passion for collaborating across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members across product, engineering, support, operations, marketing, sales and more to understand business needs and convert them to technical requirements.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines to collect, process, and store large volumes of critical data from various sources.
• Provide data reliability and uptime by monitoring and troubleshooting data pipeline performance and scalability to ensure efficient operations.
• You are a lazy engineer - continuously seeking to improve the team's efficiency by automating repeatable processes.
• You are a fast learner with strong business insight and can collaborate with various product partners to quickly acquire a deep understanding of the business processes that feed into our team's data pipelines
• Authoritatively translate business use cases into well-thought-out data models that are easy to evolve with the business.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical audiences.
• You are a bar-raiser for engineering best practices - carefully reviewing specifications, designs, pull requests and providing constructive/helpful feedback to raise the quality of our team's output
• Consistently write high-quality code, refactor, and optimize for better scalability, performance, and readability.
• Provide leadership within the team and mentor other team members.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

SQL

Data pipelines

Spark

Airflow

Data modeling

Leadership

Communication

Cloud

Education

BS+ in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Databricks

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Talentify is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a 12-month contract (remote) to lead analytics and build scalable data pipelines across our real estate software products.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, support, and marketing to translate business needs into data models, implement pipelines handling billions of rows, and ensure reliability with monitoring and automation. Strong SQL and Python/Java/Scala skills are essential.