Senior Data Engineer, Movable Ink
AI Systems
CA$144-188k
Marketing content contextualisation platform
Open for applications
Marketing content contextualisation platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
CA$144-188k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help marketers amplify their voice and delight their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- Deep expertise with Apache Spark, including the PySpark DataFrame API and experience solving challenging scaling problems
- Experience with large-scale data processing, cluster configuration, optimization, and tuning (we use GCP Dataproc)
- Strong software development skills in Python (unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
- Experience with data storage formats (we use Parquet, Delta Lake)
- Experience with event streaming data (we use Kafka)
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with advanced query optimization
- Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle practices, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery and automated deployment (we use Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions)
- Ability to collaborate with technical partners - you'll be working closely with ML engineers, scientists, and other teams to determine requirements and make design decisions
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced, goal-driven environment
- If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger
What the job involves
- The AI Systems team owns the core recommendations engine and ML platform that powers billions of AI-driven marketing decisions daily across some of the world's largest consumer brands
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will own the Spark-based data pipelines and data infrastructure at the heart of this system - building, scaling, and optimizing the data layer that feeds our production ML models
- You will work alongside ML engineers and scientists in a collaborative environment, contributing data pipelines and products to power our core recommender systems and our DaVinci Personalization product
- This is an opportunity to work end-to-end on large-scale data systems that touch millions of customers, on a team working at the intersection of data engineering and machine learning
- This role will be reporting to the Director of Engineering (AI/ML)
- Build, maintain, and optimize production data pipelines that power AI-driven personalization at scale across content selection, send-time optimization, subject line personalization, and frequency capping
- Own and scale Spark-based batch pipelines, including cluster configuration, tuning, and performance optimization across GCP Dataproc
- Build and maintain our ML Data Lake, ensuring data quality, accessibility, and efficient storage
- Support the data needs of ML Engineers and Scientists for model development, training, and evaluation
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scaling limitations in data pipelines and infrastructure
- Collaborate with distributed systems engineers on the platform's architectural evolution, ensuring data layer continuity throughout
- Continuously improve data infrastructure for greater scalability and reliability
- Release features and data products that deliver measurable and tangible business value
Our take
Moveable has been at the forefront of personalised marketing since 2010. It pioneered the technology behind contextual email marketing, helping brands show content that actually mattered to each customer in real time. From its early days, the company has focused on making every customer interaction smarter and more engaging.
Over the years, Movable Ink has grown beyond email., embracing AI and automation to take personalization to the next level. Its products, including Studio and the Da Vinci AI orchestration engine, let brands create experiences that scale while still feeling personal. And with its Autonomous Marketing capabilities, the company is helping marketers work smarter, while gaining deeper insights and driving measurable results across every touchpoint.
In 2025, Movable Ink announced it would be acquired by STG, a US-based private equity firm. This move is a vote of confidence in the company's vision and mission, giving it the backing to expand its AI-driven platform even further.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$55m
SERIES D
Aug 2020
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $97.3m
Company benefits
- Generous PTO
- Global Mental Health and Well-Being Benefits
- Flexible Work Opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Benefits
- Employee Resource Groups
- Parental Leave and Support
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Social Events and Activities
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Vivek Sharma
(Co-Founder & CEO)Began their career as a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems and Blue Martini Software. Vivek then went on to found MetroSpark where he served as the CEO for 3 years before co-founding Movable Ink in 2010.
Michael Nutt
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Michael was a Senior Software Developer at Gilt Groupe and Lime Wire.
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