Senior Data Engineer, Fountain
All-in-one high volume hiring platform
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All-in-one high volume hiring platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help organizations find and hire the right people across industries such as retail, healthcare and logistics.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, ETL, or similar roles
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience using dbt and an orchestration framework such as Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres/Aurora) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
- Familiarity with data lakes and data warehouse technologies such as Iceberg, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Redshift
- Exposure to streaming and CDC technologies like Kafka, Debezium, and change data capture pipelines
- Understanding of data modeling, incremental design, and performance optimization
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and storage services (S3, GCS, Azure Storage)
- Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience with version control and collaboration using Git
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams
- A proactive, curious attitude with a desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Fountain is the leading hiring platform for high-volume frontline workforces. As we scale into a multi-product, enterprise-focused company, data is at the heart of our strategy
- Our data infrastructure powers embedded analytics for our customers, internal BI for our teams, and agentic analytics experiences in our products. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build and evolve the data platforms and pipelines that make this possible
- Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes to move data from Postgres and MongoDB into our Iceberg data lake on S3 and ClickHouse Cloud via change data capture (CDC) using Debezium or ClickPipes
- Collaborate with senior engineers to orchestrate transformations using Dagster, including dbt runs, custom Python ETLs, and scheduled jobs
- Develop and maintain dbt models across multiple warehouses (ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) to power embedded analytics, internal analytics, and customer-facing integrations
- Work with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements, test transformations, and deliver high-quality datasets for analytics and product features
- Assist in migrating from Fivetran to a Kafka-based streaming architecture, including configuring Kafka and Debezium connectors
- Participate in implementing data retention, GDPR compliance, anonymization, and backup workflows across our data lake and warehouse layers
- Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot issues, and optimize query performance in ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform (or similar tools) to standardize deployments and manage environments across AWS, GCP, and Azure
Our take
Companies regularly struggle with recruitment, spending valuable time and resources on sourcing candidates, interviewing them, and analyzing job eligibility. Applications are processed through antiquated job board systems and require additional lengthy processes such as paperwork signing, background checks, and training - ultimately presenting a need for innovation in the recruitment processes.
Fountain provides a data-driven recruitment and candidate management platform for businesses, allowing them to leverage their data to identify recruitment inefficiencies, and automate interviewing, hiring, and post-hire workflows. The company provides bespoke solutions for industries such as hospitality, healthcare, and retail, integrating its technology within industry-specific software and communication formats to make the recruitment experience easier for prospective employees and employers.
Whilst it faces competition from other automation-driven recruitment platforms, Fountain stands out by improving the recruitment process for both employees and employers, helping to reduce communication and processing speeds for both parties. Through this approach, the company claims that it can increase recruitment scope, speed up recruitment processes, and help companies to hire the best candidates for their hiring goals. In 2023 it released conversational AI tools for frontline workforce management, and Fountain Onboard and Fountain Compliance, utilising developments in the machine learning space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $217.3m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & Work Hours
- "Work from Anywhere" Policy
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- HSA & FSA (Medical and Dependent Care)
- Life Insurance & STD/LTD
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for Birth/Adoption
- Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
- Phone Stipend
- Remote IT/Home Office Stipend
- Learning and Development Reimbursements
- Fun, interactive and inclusive team-building events, off-sites, and happy hours
- 401K Plan
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Behr
(CEO)Previously a Senior Vice President of Global Operations for Adap.tv from 2007 to 2014. They are the Co-founder and CEO of STRATIM from 2014 to 2020.
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