Senior Data Engineer, StockX
$140-160k
+ Equity and discretionary bonuses
Streetwear marketplace
Be an early applicant
Streetwear marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$140-160k
+ Equity and discretionary bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide access to the world's most coveted items in the smartest way possible.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with disparate datasets and be someone who loves to bring data together to answer business questions at speed. You should have deep expertise in the creation and management of datasets and the proven ability to translate the data into meaningful insights through collaboration with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders.
- 3 to 5 years' experience in data warehouse / data lake house technical architecture
- 3+ years of experience in using programming languages (Python / Scala / Java / C#) Minimum
- 3 years of Big Data and Big Data tools in one or more of the following: Batch Processing (e.g. Hadoop distributions, Spark), Real time processing (e.g. Kafka, Flink/Spark Streaming)
- Minimum of 2 years' experience with AWS or engineering in other cloud environments
- Strong Knowledge of Databricks SQL/Scala - Data Engineering Pipelines
- Experience with Database Architecture/Schema design
- Strong familiarity with batch processing and workflow tools such as dbt, AirFlow, NiFi
- Ability to work independently with business partners and management to understand their needs and exceed expectations in delivering tools/solutions
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and ability to present complex technical/analytical concepts to executive audience
- Strong business mindset with customer obsession; ability to collaborate with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be empowered to leverage data to drive amazing customer experiences and business results. You will own the end to end development of data engineering solutions to support analytical needs of the business.
- You will partner with accounting and finance business teams in expanding Financial Data Repository to support new business initiatives. Sr Data Engineer of Finance Data Repository is most challenging and exciting role to work for, with new business initiative launches in payments, finance , tax and ordering platform. Its highly critical to manage the changes on daily basis for proper accounting to keep our books clean and accurate
- Design and build mission critical data pipelines with a highly scalable distributed architecture - including data ingestion (streaming, events and batch), data integration, data curation
- Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, simplifying self-service support for business stakeholders
- Build and support reusable framework to ingest, integration and provision data
- Automation of end to end data pipeline with metadata, data quality checks and audit
- Build and support a big data platform on the cloud
- Define and implement automation of jobs and testing
- Optimize the data pipeline to support ML workloads and use cases
- Support mission critical applications and near real time data needs from the data platform
- Capture and publish metadata and new data to subscribed users
- Work collaboratively with business analysts, product managers, data scientists as well as business partners and actively participate in design thinking session
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Motivate, coach, and serve as a role model and mentor for other development team associates/members that leverage the platform
Our take
StockX pairs buyers with sellers and verifies products through its live bid-and-ask structure, funding itself by charging a transaction fee on each sale. In return it verifies each item sold on the platform for authenticity and condition, setting it aside from competitors in this space such as TheRealReal.
The company is now hoping to further distinguish itself by working directly with brands to release products through the platform, with a vision to letting its customers set the price for goods in the same way investors do for shares in the stock exchange.
Despite issues including allegations of counterfeiting from Nike and a general slowdown in the resale goods market over 2022, StockX has continued its rapid growth, doubling the number of buyers on its network to 12 million. While a global economic slowdown has caused it to give up on plans for an IPO in the near term, StockX is nonetheless planning to expand its product line and expand internationally in the near future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$60m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$275m
SERIES E
Total funding: $495m
Company benefits
- We promote the physical and emotional health of our team members and their families. We offer generous health benefits packages to keep our team members happy and healthy
- Rest and recharge when you need it the most: In addition to a full holiday schedule, we offer generous paid time off for our team members
- Be present with your new family member: Through our parental leave benefit, new parents receive paid time off
- Invest in your future. Many of our team members can take part in our pension or 401k programs
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown Detroit, Detroit, MI
Leadership
Greg Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at Deutsche Bank before founding Upto, a calendar software startup where he acted as CEO prior to founding StockX
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