Principal Data Engineer, LeafLink
Platform
$235-270k
+ Stock options
Wholesale marketplace for legal cannabis
Job no longer available
Wholesale marketplace for legal cannabis
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$235-270k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide growing cannabis businesses with the tools they need to manage their businesses more effectively and accelerate growth.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 10 years experience in a professional working environment on a data or engineering team
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational and non-relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of data stores
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Expertise writing Python processing jobs to ingest a variety of structured and unstructured data received from various sources & formats such as Rest APIs, Flat Files, and Logs with the ability to support and scale to both smaller and larger dataset ingestions
- They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting in Python and data processing libraries such as requests, pandas, sqlalchemy
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as Redshift or comparable cloud-based OLAP databases such as Snowflake
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow
- Experience with AWS cloud services
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as Dynamo, Terraform, Kubernetes, Fivetran, and dbt is a strong plus
- Experience with designing and implementing machine learning enablement tools and infrastructure
- Experience leveraging API-based LLM models, dynamic prompt generation, fine-tuning
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced growth business with many collaborators and quickly evolving business needs
- Individual contributor leadership to our data and analytics engineers and specialization on our current Platform Engineering team around data enterprise architecture and best practices
- Consistency and standards to how we visualize and use our enterprise data at LeafLink through helping us define our first Data Dictionary and Catalog
- Ideal candidates for this position should possess a keen mind for solving tough problems with the ideal solution, partnering effectively with various team members along the way
- They should be deeply passionate about organizing and managing data at scale for various use cases
- They should be personable, efficient, flexible, and communicative, have a strong desire to implement change, grow, mature, and have a passion and love for their work
What the job involves
- LeafLink is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our remote-friendly team, headquartered in NYC, who is passionate about working with teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems rapidly
- This impactful position enables LeafLink to coordinate and integrate with 3rd party data sets and proprietary data to produce valuable insights into business and customer needs
- As a member of our engineering team, you will be in a position to have a direct and lasting impact everywhere in the company
- Your contribution will be immediate and have positive ripple effects across not just our business, but also the business of each of our customers
- LeafLink is currently tackling a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry
- As such, this role has the opportunity to help lead, shape, and grow the data and machine learning architecture within our platform, as well as work with new and growing technologies. It’s a very exciting time to join our engineering team!
- This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing department in all areas
- Audit, design, and maintain a high-performing, modular, and optimal data pipeline architecture for structured and unstructured use cases around machine learning, reporting, and analytics
- Design and co-build with Cloud and DevOps the infrastructure and operations required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, python, and AWS cloud technologies
- Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
- Analyze and evaluate existing solutions and make decisions on whether to extend or refactor as needed with a major focus on improving our pipeline and reporting performance
- Work with the CTO and department stakeholders to properly plan short and long-term goals, and define and execute a technical roadmap that continues to evolve LeafLink’s data capabilities and functionality to meet the needs of our Business and Product Vision
- Work collaboratively with multiple cross-functional agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features enabled by our data pipeline, seeing them through from conception to delivery
- Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards, best practices, tenants, and data management & governance across data and analytics engineering
- Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis and eliminating risk
- Effectively communicate the complexity of your work to technical and non-technical audiences through non-written and written mediums
- Design, develop, and test data models in our data warehouse that enable data and analytics processes
- Help define and build our enterprise data catalog and dictionary
- Troubleshoot, diagnose and address data quality issues quickly and effectively while implementing solutions to combat this at scale, including improved quality controls and observability and monitoring
- Provide mentorship and growth to our BE and Data engineers while creating repeatable and scalable solutions and patterns
Our take
Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed drug in the world, but until relatively recently this market remained underground. An increasing number of US states, however, are opting to legalize cannabis, opening up a highly lucrative market opportunity that businesses are looking to capitalize on.
LeafLink has cemented its position as one of the major supply chain players in the growing legal cannabis market, connecting suppliers with retailers through its wholesale eCommerce marketplace. Currently, it commands over half of the US cannabis market, as well as having strong VC backing, and surpassing the $1B transaction threshold.
Since 2016, it has helped over 12,000 companies in 37 states build relationships, process payments, and ship products to retail, and it isn't slowing down any time soon. The company acquired Leaf Trade and Dama Financial, putting it in an even greater leadership position within the cannabis industry. Now the company looks set for an even greater future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
74% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Jul 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $229m
Company benefits
- Healthcare, dnetal, and vision coverage
- 401k plan
- Company equity
- Unlimited PTO + 5 days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Learning and development stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Ashwin Raj
(CEO)Previously President & CEO at ezCater,Executive Vice President at Lyft,Director at Amazon Payments and was the Vice President of Global Products at Visa.
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