Senior Data Engineer, Tovala
+ Equity
Smart ovens and meal-kit delivery service
Open for applications
Smart ovens and meal-kit delivery service
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make home cooking faster, healthier, and easier so people can focus on what's most important to them.
Role
Who you are
- An ideal candidate would be a data nerd with a strong technical background who enjoys working cross-functionally to solve problems with data
- Have 3+ years of experience working as a Data Engineer under your belt
- Proficient at using the skills below to turn business requirements into technical solutions
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent SQL skills (preferably SnowSQL)
- Excellent Python skills with an emphasis on efficiency and performance of ELT pipelines
- Expertise at maintaining, tuning, and administering a database (preferably Snowflake) for multiple use cases
- Keenly understand the importance of good security and DevOps practices
- Comfortable in an AWS ecosystem (S3, Lambdas, EC2, IAM roles, Security Groups)
- Experience with dbt (Data Build Tool) - especially using macros
- Experience with Docker or similar containerization tools
- Experience deploying machine learning models is a plus
- Experience with using generative AI for text analytics is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer who can help us to develop our existing data platform as well as bringing their own expertise and ideas to the table
- Designing, building, maintaining, and improving our data pipelines to efficiently ingest, process and transform large volumes of data from multiple sources
- Developing robust data models to support analytics and reporting requirements, ensuring that the data is correct and up to date
- Maintaining and developing user-friendly development and production environments to ensure smooth deployment of new tooling
- Implementing rigorous testing and validation processes to ensure that our code and systems are running smoothly
- Deploying machine learning and AI models to enhance our understanding of the business and product
- Working closely with analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Using your engineering know-how to turn business problems into precise technical solutions
Our take
Domestic meal kits are nothing new, with companies such as Hello Fresh, Sun Basket, and Blue Apron all crowding the increasingly popular industry. Tovala is a food-tech company attempting to disrupt this market, with a smart oven that eliminates the need for meal preparation.
Tovala offers customers both an oven and the option to sign up to a rotating weekly meal delivery service. Boasting a single minute of prep-time for adding the final touches, the system works by scanning the meal's QR code so that the oven can run the associated cook cycle. The oven also recognises over a thousand name-brand products, and has hundreds of presets for when users want to cook for themselves.
Despite competing with a pile of other meal-kit services, Tovala's clear stand-out feature is the oven, with nothing similar offered by competitors. The company is aiming to expand into new verticals, adding smart oven air fryers to its product line up in early 2023. The first new appliance from the company since 2018, this move should attract new customers and help cement Tovala's market lead.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$30m
SERIES C
Sep 2020
$3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $71.7m
Company benefits
- Ownership : Every full-time teammate receives a stock option grant
- Flexible PTO
- 401(K) with company match
- Hybrid work environment
- Learn & grow : Every teammate receives a yearly learning stipend they can utilize anytime
- Great company culture
- Free Tovala Smart Oven & discounted Tovala Meals
Company values
- Put the Team First -- We put what is best for the broader team ahead of what is best for ourselves or our immediate department
- Embrace the Obstacles -- We rise to meet challenges with a sense of urgency, resolve, and optimism
- Connect the Dots -- We engage with curiosity to learn how our work impacts others so that we can problem-solve holistically and work collaboratively
- Be Direct -- We share our perspective openly and directly, even when it feels difficult to do so
- Get S#!t Done (Well) -- We celebrate people at all levels for delivering high impact work that expands the bounds of what we’re able to do
- Champion the Customer -- We consider and prioritize our customer in all of our decisions
Company HQ
West Loop, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
David Rabie
(Founder & CEO)They worked as an Associate at The Abernaathy MacGregor Group before working for VeggieGrill and Groovy Spoon for a combined 3 years. Co-founded Draftpedia in 2012 before founding Tovala in 2014.
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