Senior Analytics Engineer, Lightspeed
+Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Job no longer available
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+Equity
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring the streets of our cities and communities to life by powering business owners with technology.
Role
Who you are
- If you have worked on data pipelines, can use SQL language to order your food at the restaurant and you are proficient in data modelling, you’re a natural-born problem-solver and always willing to develop products that solve real-world problems for customers around the globe
- You are collaborative and quality-focused. You know when to take a shortcut, but more importantly, you know when you should not take one
- You provide feedback, not just to other contributors but also to management, and business teams. You are able to take any task that a department throws at you and proactively challenge it, this might be the role for you
- Proficient skills with SQL
- Good knowledge of Python in a data analysis context
- Ability to break down complex projects into smaller stories to help other team members & themselves deliver
- Experience with MPP data warehouse (we use BigQuery)
- Experience in performing data profiling, data mapping, and data quality validation
- Experience with data orchestrator (we use cloud composer)
- A good understanding of industry-standard design patterns for data warehouse data models
- Experience with cloud environments (in particular GCP) as well as containerization solutions as a user
- Experience with source control using Git or equivalent, CI/CD pipelining, and writing automated unit and functional tests
- A security mindset - should be able to understand compliances (GDPR, SOX, ...)
- Excellent communication skills
What the job involves
- Lightspeed is growing quickly and we’re looking for a great colleague who is also a passionate Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Central Data Team. The primary role of this position is to build data pipelines and data models that will provide insight to our corporate stakeholders
- Cleanse and transform raw data into business logic to help stakeholders build reports, and ensure the right data gets to the right people at the right time
- Collaborate with data analysts and data architects, to design and feed proper data models for downstream usage
- Act as a champion for data quality and usability across the organization
- Ensure availability, quality, searchability of the data and documentation
- Write, clean, and maintain SQL/Python queries/scripts that are easy to understand, simple to troubleshoot and are highly performing with proper test implementation
- Automate the testing of our data models and monitor their quality
- Provide technical leadership on data solutions that are forward looking
- Work with the team to continuously improve our data pipeline
- Adopt software engineering best practices, such as version control and design patterns and teach others to adopt these best practices
- Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale data infrastructure
- Share your knowledge and mentor more junior engineers
Our take
Lightspeed provides restaurateurs and retailers with the simplest way to run their businesses at full potential. It helps entrepreneurs offer their customers positive and memorable experiences by taking care of the day-to-day management aspects of their business.
Around 75,000 businesses processing over $17 billion in transactions annually use Lightspeed’s restaurant POS software and omnichannel retail solution to manage inventory, customer preferences, sales and reporting — all from one centralised platform. Headquartered in Montreal, Lightspeeds team is distributed across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, now serving over 150,000 locations worldwide.
Lightspeed POS maintains a unique edge over other companies of its type because it has secured the legal rights for the sole use of certain technologies. It has two registered patents in computing, calculating categories. These patents certify that Lightspeed POS is the sole owner of this intellectual property, which means that no other companies can use them.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- With Lightspeed PX, you can enjoy flexible paid time off and up to 2 months remote per year with our hybrid work policy
- Equity options, because this is your company too
- Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, from #coffee_pals to sponsored sports teams
- Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
Company values
- We make it matter.
- We make it happen.
- We make it together.
- We make it human.
- We make it about the customer.
- We make it data driven.
Company HQ
Old Montreal, Montreal, QC
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Leadership
Dax Dasilva
(Executive Chair)Founder of Never Apart, previously Developer of Bitmovers. Studied Computer Science, Art History, and Religious Studies at The University of British Columbia. Served as CEO for Lightspeed for 17 years until 2022.
JP Chauvet
(CEO, not founder)Co-founded Chardonnat and served as CEO of Atex and as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for both Nstein Technologies and IXIASOFT.
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