Staff Analytics Engineer, ClassDojo
$161.5-250k
Salary dependent on location
Communication app for primary schools
Open for applications
Communication app for primary schools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$161.5-250k
Salary dependent on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give every kid on Earth an education they love by enabling teachers to build students' confidence, encouraging them to become lifelong learners.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess a passion for education and a strong foundation in all aspects of analytics engineering
- 7+ years experience with data / analytics engineering
- You have owned large-scale data projects that drove significant impact across the company
- You are an effective partner with engineering, data analysts, data scientists, and other business stakeholders
- You dive deep into understanding the product itself, team roadmaps, technical architecture, and data flow from logging to warehouse. You ask questions and unblock yourself in truly owning your project scope
- You enjoy mentoring other data-savvy stakeholders (Data Science, PM, Eng) on data best practices
- You live and breathe schema design (whether it's Snowflake, Star, or Data Vault 2.0) and sharing your ideas in thoughtful design reviews
- You have a deep love of creating clean fact, dimension, aggregate, cube tables and get excited about tracking their downstream usage and feedback
- You have led the design, implementation, and monitoring of large scale data warehouses and data marts that enable clear product-focused insights
- You are an expert at SQL and are very comfortable writing window functions, STRUCT/ARRAY manipulation, and query optimization
- You adhere to and promote performance best practices for your tables depending on the database engine (partitions, sort keys, dist keys, clustering, incremental modeling)
- You have a passion for data cataloging and metadata management tools to document data assets and ensure data lineage
- You live by data governance principles, including data classification, data ownership, and data stewardship
- You design systems with a test-driven approach in mind to trap bad quality data or highlight alerts as part of your data flow
- Familiarity with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and tools to prepare and clean data for analysis
- Skill in using tools like dbt to build data transformation pipelines
Desirable
- You love working with SQL frameworks like dbt to cleanly abstract model code from implementation
- You are an Airflow expert and digging into DAG failures and optimizing task run times excites you
- You are passionate about data governance and how we can apply principles like least-privilege access, retention policies, and data minimization at scale
- You are a continuous learner. Staying current in the latest trends and technologies in data analytics and educational technology is no easy feat . You will have the opportunity to lead initiatives to experiment with new data sources, data warehouses, analytics methodologies, and technologies to enhance our analytics capabilities and drive innovation within the company
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Analytics Engineer to join our Data Science and Analytics team
- In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in making data accessible and actionable, facilitating informed decision-making throughout the company
- You will partner and lead across multiple product team functions and domains and drive impact through your data vision and architecture
Our take
ClassDojo started as a classroom management tool, which teachers can use to reward and influence good conduct at school. Beyond this, it has grown into a communication platform for teachers, students and their families, used by 95% of schools in the US, with a total of over 51 million users worldwide.
ClassDojo has had an interesting journey since its 2011 launch, growing steadily but struggling to turn a profit for almost a decade. However, the launch of its monetized communication app and tripled revenue as online learning became the norm during the pandemic propelled ClassDojo to success.
This success has led to significant venture capital investment, which is intended to evolve the company once more, from a communication app into an extracurricular learning platform and creative space for current ClassDojo users. The size and loyalty of ClassDojo’s user base, as well as the company’s sure-footed survival and growth over the last decade led to the company acquiring Y Combinator graduates Prendea in 2022, expanding its operations into Latin America and solidifying a promising future for the company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $346.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sam Chaudhary
(CEO)A Cambridge graduate and Y Combinator alumnus. Was a Business Analyst at McKinsey and worked in Product at OneFineStay.
Liam Don
(President)Studied Computer Science at Durham University. Worked as a Games Developer at Jagex and researched Technology Enhanced Learning at Durham.
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