Senior Data Engineer, Paperless Post
$150-175k
+ Equity
Online events & invitations platform
Job no longer available
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-175k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering
- Advanced proficiency in Python (data manipulation and integration tasks) and SQL
- Strong experience with data pipelines, data orchestration, and CI/CD, utilizing tools such as Docker, Airflow, and CircleCI
- Broad understanding of cloud tools across both AWS (S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, EMR, ECS, EC2) and GCP
- Expertise working with cloud data warehouses, particularly BigQuery or Snowflake
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases as well as clickstream data
- Comfortable utilizing AI tools to enhance the efficiency of data engineering tasks
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Desire and willingness to tackle new challenges and learn new technologies
Desirable
- Knowledge of SQL data modeling best practices using DBT
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Looker and Hex
- Comfortable navigating the ambiguity often present in a fast-paced startup environment
What the job involves
- Paperless Post is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to grow and enhance our ETL pipelines and data platform
- The ideal candidate will be proficient and resourceful across a wide range of data engineering skills - including cloud infrastructure, software development, data orchestration, data warehouse design, and CI/CD
- In this role, you will collaborate externally with engineering and product teams to capture and transform required data, and internally with analytics engineering and data science teams to support the launch of a broad range of data projects
- Improve infrastructure reliability and stability through regular updates and error detection
- Build production level python ETL code to ensure high data quality
- Enable data science by productionizing and deploying machine learning models
- Partner with analytics engineering to help build optimized DBT SQL data models
- Collaborate with engineering and product to define required data structures upstream
- Design custom integrations with third-party tools to empower business teams
- Implement standardized data engineering procedures within the team, including the adoption of best practices for unit testing and Python runtime environments
Our take
Sending invitations to events can be tedious and time-consuming, and outsourcing design can be expensive too. Paperless Post solves this problem with its technology-led, design-first approach.
Paperless Post first launched in 2009, and since then it has become a clear market leader in a field cluttered with fairly simple design and printing tools. Part of its success stems from its early adoption of mobile phones as a platform - while initially optimized for desktop use the company worked hard to develop its platform for mobile users.
This has allowed Paperless Post to consolidate its growth in spite of market changes over the years. It will need to continue to develop its partnerships and technology in order to fend off new competitors, but its unique designs and understanding of communication trends indicate that the company is still ahead of the curve.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$10m
SERIES E
Apr 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.4m
Company benefits
- Six medical plans, three dental, and two vision
- Match on up to 4% of your 401k contributions
- $1,500 annual allowance for continuing education and learning and development
- Partnerships and company subsidies with leading wellness providers
- Our NYC canteen is stocked with yummy snacks, plus bagels and catered lunches on office days
- PTO policy starts at 20 rest and relaxation days for new employees and increases with tenure, with flexible time off for when life happens
- Earn a two-week sabbatical on your 5th anniversary, and three weeks on your 8th
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
James Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
Alexa Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
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