Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer at FGI, you will be responsible for creating the technology and data architecture that moves and translates data used to inform critical strategic and real-time decisions. You will work with internal partners across engineering, product, business and marketing teams to translate business needs into technical solutions - three important areas of focus will be: centralizing data repositories, building self-serve analytics platforms, and developing automated reporting solutions.

We are an expanding team with an abundance of growth and influence opportunities. You will work directly with the engineering head of the company (an ex-Google engineer) and help to set the team’s culture and technical direction.

Our Stack:

• Airflow
• Docker
• DBT
• BigQuery
• Metabase

• Manage and automate the end-to-end process of organizational data collection and reporting
• Optimize existing pipelines and maintain all domain-related data pipelines.
• Coordinate with your team to identify new data requirements, analysis strategies and reporting solutions.
• Recommend and implement data models, data architecture, business intelligence, and data governance processes to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Create technical systems documentation.
  
  

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 2+ years professional experience with data modeling, building data pipelines and reports
• Expertise with SQL; knowledge of SQL performance tuning and e2e process optimization.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Java, C++, C#)
• Understand concepts of schema evolution, sharding, latency etc.

Preferred, but not required:

• Strong experience using ETL framework (ex: Airflow, Flume, Oozie etc.) to build and deploy production-quality ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud suites (e.g. AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery)

• Entrepreneurial: We are a team that is nimble and quick to adapt. There will be minimal to no hand-holding -- this environment is perfect for someone who is independent, self-driven and looking for growth opportunities.
• An excellent communicator: We speak quickly and act quickly. This requires concise and efficient communication
• Comfortable giving and receiving feedback: We believe in radical candor. Everyone is empowered to speak their mind and constantly share feedback.
• Love adopting new technology and software tools (e.g. Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slack, Asana, Xer, etc): We are always on the lookout for new tools that will make our own work more efficient.
• Data-driven: We love numbers and data. We make decisions based on quantitative figures.
• Customer-centric: We do whatever it takes to satisfy our customers.