Principal Data Engineer, Hi Marley
Offers stock options
Communication platform for the insurance industry
Open for applications
Communication platform for the insurance industry
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Offers stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the insurance ecosystem with a comprehensive communication platform.
Role
Who you are
- Data Engineering Expertise – 7+ years of experience building reliable, performant data systems, including data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and warehouse optimization
- Scaled Platform Leadership – Experience growing data infrastructure through stages of scale—whether maturing internal systems, guiding platform modernization, or supporting enterprise-level requirements through times of growth
- Proficiency with Modern Tools – Comfortable with SQL and Python (or similar languages), and hands-on experience with tools like dbt, Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake, or other cloud-native data platforms
- Trust, Security & Governance Focus – Experience designing systems with built-in privacy, access controls, and governance. Familiarity with secure data handling, regulatory compliance, and data classification in multi-tenant or regulated environments
- Collaborative and Strategic Mindset – Ability to work across product, engineering, and analytics teams to shape systems that deliver long-term value
- Customer-Facing Data Enablement – Bonus: Experience designing backend systems that power customer-facing analytics or data-driven product features
- Supportive Leadership Style – A mentoring mindset and enthusiasm for helping others grow while building a collaborative, inclusive culture
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Principal Data Engineer to serve as the technical lead as we expand our data engineering capabilities
- In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll help guide both the short-term evolution and long-term strategy of our data systems—evolving and expanding the systems that power internal analytics and customer-facing intelligence
- You’ll collaborate across analytics, product, and engineering teams to ensure data is structured, secure, and ready to support our growth
- As an early technical leader, you’ll build scalable pipelines, platform capabilities, and infrastructure that enable trusted insights
- You’ll also help shape how engineering and analytics collaborate and guide the evolution of the broader data organization
- This is a chance to shape how data powers Hi Marley’s products, insights, and growth—delivering scalable systems, improving performance, ensuring compliance, and enabling meaningful impact through data
- Lead Data Platform Strategy and Architecture – Help define and deliver a data platform roadmap that supports near-term needs and long-term scale—enabling insights, innovation, and customer value across our products and analytics ecosystem
- Design and Build Scalable Data Infrastructure – Build robust systems to ingest, transform, store, and serve data across multi-tenant and single-tenant use cases—balancing flexibility, security, and performance
- Deliver Trusted Data Pipelines – Develop reliable and observable pipelines using modern batch and near real-time approaches, connecting internal and external data sources
- Champion Data Trust and Visibility – Advance practices in data quality, observability, and governance—ensuring our systems are secure, compliant, auditable, and built to meet customer and regulatory expectations
- Partner to Enable Insights – Work closely with the analytics and product teams to deliver structured, reliable data pipelines that support a growing ecosystem of dashboards, customer-facing analytics, and research—providing the trusted foundation for downstream insights
- Mentor and Influence Engineering Culture – Provide guidance, share knowledge, and lead by example to establish best practices and grow the data engineering function
- Shape a Scalable Future – Partner with cross-functional leaders to define and evolve a data platform roadmap that grows with our customers, products, and teams
Our take
The insurance industry can be notoriously frustrating for policyholders during the claims process, with a reported 40% of people considering a switch of insurers following a claim. This is the outcome that Hi Marley wants to help carriers avoid.
The company uses an AI-enabled communication platform designed to allow insurance carriers and their partners to talk to policyholders in real time via simple text messaging. This ultimately gives carriers more opportunities to satisfy and retain their customers.
Hi Marley has enjoyed rapid in recent years, with a quadrupling of its user base. It has also more than doubled the number of carriers using its platform, which now include the likes of American Family, MetLife, Auto-Owners, Erie, and MAPFRE. Improvements such as the addition of a suite of collaborative tools to its platform seem likely to help it maintain its edge in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2023
$12m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $62.5m
Company benefits
- Full benefits package including parental leave, a matching 401k program, and medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Open vacation policy - we all work hard and take time for ourselves when we need it
- Generous stock options - we all get to own a piece of what we’re building
- A fun, lively startup culture
- Core values-based leadership
- A culture of employee engagement, diversity and inclusion
- Ample opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup
Company HQ
Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
Leadership
Mike Greene
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mike spent 5 years as an Accenture Management Consultant before working as an IBM Associate Partner and co-founding Futurity Group. They worked for Aon for 7 years before co-founding Hi Marley as CEO in June 2017.
Mitesh Suchak
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Mitesh was Managing Partner at Futurity Group before becoming Partner at Aon Inpoint. After 7 years, they left this role to co-found Hi Marley (originally as COO).
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