Senior Data Engineer, Shopify
Embedded
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products.
Role
Who you are
- Commercial experience in Data Engineering, and/or Analytics Engineering, building scalable data warehouses
- Dimensional Modeling (Star Schema, Kimball, Inmon)
- Advanced SQL skills (ease with window functions, defining UDFs)
- Exposure to Data Engineering tooling: ingesting, testing transformations, lineage, orchestration, publishing data, metric layers
- Hands-on experience implementing real-time and batch data pipelines with tight SLOs and complex transformation requirements
- Fantastic collaboration and communication skills, demonstrated by successful large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
- Technical thought leader, comfortable navigating ambiguity and mentoring various level of team members
- Aptitude for product analysis, dashboarding, and reporting
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer at Shopify, your primary responsibility will be to contribute to Shopify’s Data Warehouse. Your work will unlock powerful insights to guide the development and improvement of Shopify’s products
- As an embedded Data Engineer, you will work directly building foundations for products that transform merchants' lives
- You'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of professionals that can include Product Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Business Analysts, and Product Management
- The data you shape will be used to power product analysis, dashboards, and reports
- You will also contribute by performing product analysis and creating dashboards and reports yourself from time to time
- Get excited about flexing these analysis and reporting muscles, while also evangelizing the values and excellence in the Data Engineering craft to your multidisciplinary peers in a fast moving environment with competing priorities
- Working with business partners to understand business and product objectives and identify the data needed to support them
- Designing, building, implementing, and documenting data models
- Writing data transformations using dbt or Spark
- Shipping data pipelines including real-time streaming and batch processing
- Optimizing data transformation pipelines to increase freshness or reduce computational time/cost
- Working with engineers to understand and influence how data is produced
- Collaborating with other data engineers on tooling for automated tasks around consuming, validating raw/modeled data, updating modeled data
- Subscribing to and implementing architecture and standards following the Data Engineer craft at Shopify
- Collaborating with sister disciplines (Engineering, Data Science) to establish best practices and evangelize the values and priorities of the Data Engineering craft
- Partnering closely with product, engineering and other business leaders to influence product and program decisions with data
- Building production-quality dashboards and scalable data products
Our take
Prior to Shopify, eCommerce solutions for online businesses were a pretty ramshackle affair, either picked from a poor selection of expensive off-the-shelf products or developed in-house. Shopify was born from its founder's frustration in setting up a store to sell snowboards online. Since then it has grown into the world's biggest eCommerce platform, with over 1 million active merchants using the platform to sell almost anything imaginable over the internet.
Today Shopify has a commanding lead among eCommerce platforms, though it may be threatened by the rapid growth of its rival WooCommerce, which is popular in online stores built using WordPress. However Shopify has made moves to stay ahead of the competition, developing new products such as Shopify Collabs which makes it easier for influencers to collaborate with brands, and offering financing services to eligible merchants to support their business growth.
Shopify has enjoyed strong growth in the years since its IPO, achieving more than 26% revenue growth compared to 2022 in 2023 alone, driven by the continuing shift to online shopping and the improved capabilities of the platform. It will be looking to build on this growth by continuing to develop its range of products and making further strategic acquisitions to support its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2013
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.3m
Company benefits
- Great parental leave policies, including a $1000 baby bonus
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Ottawa, ON
Leadership
Tobias Lütke
(CEO)Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify
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