Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MissionWired is a company dedicated to creating revolutionary fundraising strategies that advance social causes. They are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to transform large datasets into actionable insights that support various philanthropic initiatives, while also fostering an inclusive work environment.
Responsibilities
- Solving our unique data-lake challenges: transforming and seamlessly normalizing highly varied partner datasets (such as donation data)
- Design robust batch-processing pipelines capable of extracting and loading massive datasets from a variety of internal, external, and public sources
- Developing processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production
- Leveraging modern technology knowledge to champion evolving industry trends, updated design patterns, and engineering excellence across the team
- Autonomously scope, design, and execute complex data projects from day one, turning ambiguous requirements into clear, decisive technical plans
- Developing robust testing and monitoring systems for scheduled processes
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support their data infrastructure needs; and
- Joining each and every one of your colleagues in creating an inclusive workspace
Skills
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience
- Eagerness to mentor and technically guide engineering teams
- Experience guiding technical decision making
- Extensive, hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines using Apache Spark
- Knowledge of how to build and optimize data pipelines, architectures and data sets with the ability to drive additional learning for knowledge gaps
- Experience managing data warehouses and/or data lakes
- Intellectual curiosity to innovate on ways to solve data management issues
- Passion, energy, and excitement for progressive and philanthropic causes
- Experience training or using machine learning models
- Experience in key DevOps/Infrastructure technologies such as AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Docker
- An eagerness to lead and take ownership of complex projects
- Experience mentoring or managing engineers
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid premiums for platinum-level medical plan on a national health care network
- 100% employer-paid life insurance and short term disability
- 50% employer-paid vision and dental insurance
- 401(k) with 3% employer contribution
- 20 vacation days in addition to 12 paid holidays, sick days, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day off.
- Paid parental leave at 100% of your salary
- Financial support for reproductive and transgender care
- Flexible telecommute and remote work policies
- Company issued Mac products for home offices
- Cell phone service reimbursement, meal and ride-share reimbursement, and other perks available
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