Data Engineer (Remote) Jobs

Department: Tech

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Vancouver

Reporting To: Subodh Kumar

Description

Hi there, we're Article. 👋 We're an online furniture company creating remarkably better furniture experiences one sofa at a time. We're looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data Self Serve team. This is a hands-on role requiring you to spend your time as an individual contributor.

Why This Role

In this role, you'll get exposure to a continuously improving Data infrastructure that is accessed by all of the major stakeholders within Article. Not only will you contribute to our current database and data lake but we are in the middle of a massive migration to a new platform(s) (Databricks and Delta Lakes).

Currently, the Tech team is remote first within 4+/- hours of Pacific Standard Time.

Why Article?

Article makes beautiful, modern furniture, but we think like a tech company. Our founders are technologists, and the challenges you'll solve extend far beyond eCommerce. Our technology teams create and integrate custom solutions that power our supply chain and home delivery in the pursuit of a smoother customer experience. You'll do all this while growing your skills within a company redefining the furniture industry.

What You'll Do

• You'll be collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to create and utilize shared standards to reduce waste.
• You'll also support development of tools for the delivery of transformed data to the data analysis and data science teams and other stakeholders.
• This role reports to Software Engineering Manager and is part of a cross-functional Technology department.
• You'll be responsible for building scalable data pipelines infrastructure to deliver data to Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists.
• You'll also build instrumentation for end-to-end data observability to ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality data.
• You'll be responsible for any data projects driven either by new systems being added, or updated, or by a new way of delivering large data files, etc.

Who You Are

• Proficiency in Python programming language and SQL for data processing.
• Experience working with large data sets - both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.) in Linux environment.
• Awareness of security, performance, high availability and fault-tolerance, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ETL/data programming skills (using scripts or products like Informatica, DataStage).
• Experience building ETLs and data pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow and PySpark.
• Experience with Databricks's data platform and DeltaLake.
• Experience integrating with real-time data feeds using Apache Kafka.
• Ability to communicate design, concepts, and decisions both verbally and in writing.
• Strong fundamental data integration background working in multiple development environments.
• Typically, you'll have 3 years of professional work experience in a similar role.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services - RDS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Amazon Redshift.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, managing production deployments, Git and GitHub.

Perks & Benefits

• We offer stock options to reinforce the "Ownership Mindset"
• We want you to experience the obsession our customers have for Article furniture. You'll enjoy a 45% discount (15% for friends and family, too) on our whole product offering
• When you do decide to come into the Vancouver office, we'll think you'll love:
• The Article HQ is a converted warehouse, with an open layout, well-stocked kitchens filled with snacks, premium coffees, and teas (and ALL the milks)
• We offer access to excellent dental and health benefits packages, plus a health/lifestyle spending account for your total physical and mental well-being
• Onsite fitness equipment, change rooms with showers, and bike storage
• You'll start with at least 29 days off between vacation, wellness days, holidays, and an Inclusion and Diversity Day
• Our workspace is flexible. Choose where you sit - work from an Article sofa, one of our thoughtfully staged collaboration spaces, or a private meeting room
• A dog-friendly office. If you have a well-behaved, well-socialized pup, they're welcome too

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