Back End Engineer, data.ai

• Solid knowledge of one or more modern software languages (Ruby, Python)
• Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design
• Understanding of data hygiene, validation, and versioning
• Experience with REST APIs, HTTP request libraries, and HTML parsing tools
• Ability to debug and adapt in fast-changing or partially documented data environments
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• If you're passionate about building reliable systems for collecting and working with external data, and want to make an impact as part of a fast-growing tech company, we’d love to hear from you!

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Fetching Team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that collect public data from third-party sources. In this role, you'll contribute to the development and upkeep of reliable and compliant data ingestion pipelines that support key data flows across the company
• You’ll work alongside other engineers on the Fetcher Team to ensure the accuracy, stability, and scalability of our data collection processes. Your work will support internal stakeholders across product, analytics, and business teams
• Participate in the full development life cycle for data ingestion projects, including software design, implementation, quality testing, and release
• Engage in code reviews, champion best practices, and bring new ideas to life in a collaborative environment
• Work in close cooperation with the Product team to deliver innovative new data features by discovering new data sources, increasing coverage and reliability of existing data ingestion pipelines, and connecting these to downstream feature development and data modeling
• Design, implement, and maintain robust data collection pipelines to fetch public data from third party sources
• Build resilient systems that maintain high throughput within the allowed constraints of external sources
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness
• Track changes in external data schemas (e.g. response format updates) and adjust collection logic as needed
• Automate maintenance, alerting, and recovery for your scripts to minimize manual intervention
• Work cross functionally with our compliance team to ensure data fetching is compliant with applicable laws and regulations

• All Sensor Tower interviews will be conducted via phone or Zoom