Senior Data Engineer, Spoiler Alert
$140-175k
Supply chain software to reduce food waste
Posted today
Supply chain software to reduce food waste
21-100 employees
Posted today
$140-175k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses with global supply chains to maximize sustainability, efficiency, and profitability.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8+ years of data engineering experience, ideally at a B2B SaaS, marketplace, or data products company
- Deep hands-on expertise across the modern data stack, including pipeline tooling (we use Estuary), workflow orchestration (we use Astronomer Airflow), transformations (we use dbt), and BI tools with semantic layers (we use Holistics)
- Strong SQL and data modeling foundations for clean, well-structured models that others can build on and maintain
- Experience owning data quality end-to-end, including testing and observability frameworks infrastructure and tools with a genuine bias for reliability
- AI-native chops: you productively integrate AI into your development workflows to build with curiosity and strong opinions loosely held
- Proven ability to take accountability for systems and themes, not just individual tasks or projects. You see the work through and communicate clearly along the way
- Ability to collaborate cross functionally with data analysts, product engineers, and non-technical stakeholders, bringing clarity to ambiguity
- Experience differentiators: marketplace or transaction-platform data, applied AI/ML pipeline work, customer-facing analytics products, food and beverage or CPG domain knowledge, experience integrating LLM tooling into data workflows
- Please note that applicants should be authorized to work in the United States. Though we are interested in every qualified candidate, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time
What the job involves
- Architect, build, and maintain the infrastructure that moves and transforms Spoiler Alert's marketplace data reliably and at scale, effectively incorporating AI coding tools to build with quality and velocity
- Own the analytical schema in our data warehouse that serves internal analytics, aggregate analytics, and customer-facing reporting in our data tools, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and documentation
- Design and enforce data quality standards across the stack, defining what trusted data means at Spoiler Alert and developing the monitoring and testing that upholds it
- Make intentional architectural decisions with the appropriate level of abstraction, documenting decisions and tradeoffs so the team can build confidently on your work, including data infrastructure for effective product applications of AI/ML
- Contribute exemplary code in pipeline logic, SQL, and data modeling that other engineers learn from and build on
- Share meaningful code reviews that evolve our team's patterns and practices
- Debug and resolve data issues quickly, and drive root cause work that prevents them from recurring
- Contribute to shared support responsibilities and help build a culture of reliability across the data platform
- Take end-to-end accountability for data systems and roadmap themes, owning projects through from design to production to iteration, communicating tradeoffs and risks along the way
- Partner with Product, Data, and Engineering teammates to ensure our pipelines, models, and tooling support reliable internal and external decision making using our data
- Identify opportunities where better data infrastructure creates leverage for Product, Data, Engineering, and Operations teams, and advocate for those investments with clarity
- Contribute meaningfully to architecture conversations and Engineering reflection, shaping technical decisions with your expertise
Our take
With a good chunk of the US food supply ending up as waste, consumer packaged goods companies face potentially huge waste costs. Spoiler Alert is a company helping food and beverage brands mitigate this loss, with a sales and analytics platform that helps brands efficiently and cost-effectively manage liquidation across a private network of nonprofits and discount retailers.
Nestle, Danone, The Campbell Soup Company, Kraft Heinz, and Hello Fresh all use Spoiler Alert's software, and the company is continuing to net big players across the food industry. The company is also on the right side of the increasing shift towards eco-friendly commerce. With awareness of consumer issues steadily increasing, and more money being invested into companies tackling it, Spoiler Alert is well-established to ride the waste-reduction wave.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2021
$11m
SERIES A
Nov 2016
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $13.7m
Company benefits
- Stock option packages
- 20 vacation days and 10 sick days per year
- Subsidized health, dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance and paid family and medical leave
- Paid volunteer outings and civic engagement leave
- Pre-tax 401(k) and post-tax Roth 401(k) options
- Environmentally-friendly 401k fund option
- Learning & career development stipends
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- $500 FSA employer contribution
- 17 company holidays, including an EOY rest week
- Remote first work environment
- Home office stipend
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Leadership
Ricky Ashenfelter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has an MBA from MIT and worked as a Senior Associate at ClearCarbon, and as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte.
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