Data Engineer, Outdoorsy
$140-200k
Online motorhome rental marketplace
Be an early applicant
Online motorhome rental marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-200k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock access to amazing new road trips, adventures, and experiences in the outdoors.
Role
Who you are
- Industry Expert: 3+ years data engineering experience building production-grade data warehouses and pipelines. Travel, marketplace, or insurance experience is a bonus, but not essential
- Technically Proficient: Advanced expertise in SQL and Python, with the ability to write complex transformations and fuzzy matching algorithms, and handle messy 3rd-party data formats
- Identity Resolution Experience: Direct experience with ‘Customer 360’ or ‘Golden Rule’ projects that establish source-of-truth customer profiles across disparate products and data sources
- Real-Time LLM Context: Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub) or building infrastructure for LLM-based applications (Knowledge Graphs, Vector Databases, RAG)
- Collaborative Team Player: You work effectively across departments, e.g. Product, Engineering, and Finance, and understand that great products come from diverse perspectives
- Velocity-Focused: You thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities shift quickly, and you're energized by solving real customer problems
- Academic Background: Degree in a technical quantitative field like computer science, data science, and engineering, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Outdoorsy Group is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to drive two business critical functions: the synthesis of data sources to develop a Customer 360 view across our suite of products, and achieving AI readiness by creating real-time data flows that connect to AI agents
- To date, our data has been siloed across different products and tools, each with their own identifiers and structures
- The ideal candidate will be able to show a track record of success building scalable data pipelines that solve Identity Resolution challenges, as well as experience building infrastructure for LLM-based applications
- If you’re self-driven and looking to make an impact in a fast-paced environment, then we’d love to have you!
- Enhance Identity Resolution such that there is a source-of-truth Customer 360 view that links users across our RV marketplace, internal insurance products, and 3rd-party insurance partners
- Develop fuzzy matching algorithms to triangulate single users across data that lacks common IDs
- Build and maintain scalable ELT/ETL pipelines (using tools like dbt, Airflow, FiveTran) that sync siloed SQL databases, external CRM data, and 3rd-party insurance and claims data into a unified warehouse (Redshift/BigQuery)
- Architect real-time data flows to feed an AI agent, achieving AI Readiness. Through Knowledge Graphs, Vector Databases, and Retrieval-Automated Generation, ensure agents can access e.g. latest policy status, upsell propensity scores, and customer history in near real-time
- Own all aspects of data governance between our operational systems and the AI agent to ensure privacy, security and high-fidelity responses
Our take
Outdoorsy is an online portal providing RVs and camper vans for hire on a peer-to-peer basis. The platform is attempting to do to RVs what Airbnb did to hotels: revolutionize the market using the sharing economy. Outdoorsy estimates that around 97% of recreational vehicles remain idle during the year, so it provides owners with a way to make some additional income from them when they are not in use.
In addition to its RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace, Outdoorsy also operates in the insurtech space. Its "Roamly" business is designed to provide digital insurance products for RV owners and travellers, tackling the problem with insurer contracts excluding commercial use, which could deter listings on the Outdoorsy platform. Travellers then benefit from renting vehicles with insurance included, simplifying their rental experience.
As holidayers turn away from more rigid hotel options and towards outdoor alternatives, Outdoorsy has delivered over 200,000 trips to consumers. Serving a range of demographics and remaining well-reviewed, the company is in a good position to grow into the future, especially into Europe, as it capitalises on a stunning benchmark of $3 billion in sales.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Opportunity to help build company from early stage
- Competitive salary
- Equity in one of the world's fastest growing companies
- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) Match
- Flexible PTO
- Annual RV rentals - we believe in balance and taking the time to nourish mind, body, and soul
Company HQ
North Side, Austin, TX
Leadership
Jeff Cavins
(CEO & Co-Founder)Having served as CEO of CSI Digital for over 7 years, they worked as SVP of North America and CEO of Loudeye for 6 years. They left their position as CEO of Fuze Box in November 2013 to found Outdoorsy in October 2014. Founded Roamly in 2020.
Jennifer Young
(CMO & Co-Founder)They spent over 4 years as an Account Director before working at RMG Connect and Managing Director of JWT. They co-founded Another Blank Page in 2013, leaving after a year to co-found Outdoorsy.
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