Lead Data Engineer, Genies
$215-265k
AI avatar technology company
Job no longer available
AI avatar technology company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$215-265k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field
- Strong experience designing and implementing data pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Dagster)
- Expertise in SQL, data modeling, and schema design for analytical workloads
- Deep familiarity with cloud-based data storage solutions (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and data lakes
- Experience evaluating and integrating third-party analytics platforms (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders
- Proven ability to define and manage event tracking structures in large or growing products
- Leadership experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction
- Ideal if candidate has experience working in growth stage companies
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer who is passionate about building the foundational data infrastructure that empowers teams to make smarter decisions and deliver exceptional user experiences.
- In this hands-on leadership role, you will define how events are structured and organized while collaborating with product stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment.
- You will design our data storage architecture, select the right systems and tools to enable business teams, and build high-quality pipelines that make data reliable and accessible
- Own the definition and management of the structure for how events are created and organized, designing and maintaining event taxonomies, naming conventions, and guidelines while collaborating closely with product stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and product strategy
- Define and determine the architecture around how we use data storage services, evaluating, recommending, and implementing appropriate storage solutions such as data warehouses, lakes, or transactional stores with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness
- Lead decision making on how data is used to empower business teams, for example by assessing and recommending analytics platforms to support self-serve product analytics and reporting, and guiding their integration with our broader data stack
- Build and maintain robust, performant, and secure data pipelines and ETL processes, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and maintainable code while working with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver features and improvements
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers, establishing best practices for data modeling, testing, monitoring, and documentation to raise the quality and reliability of our data engineering work
Our take
Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.
While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customisation options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.
The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalise on this opportunity moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $255.3m
Company benefits
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Akash Nigam
(Founder & CEO)CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.
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