Data Engineer at Paper (238)

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Clients – Paper /

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Ubiminds is a GPTW certified, people first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.

Ubiminds is looking for a Data Engineer to join Paper’s growing R&D and analytics team.

Driven by the mission to democratize education, Paper is the leader in personalized learning. Partnering with innovative schools and school districts, Paper helps deliver true educational equity through their category-leading Educational Support System (ESS) that offers virtual access to 24/7 tutors and essay reviewers.

Join a company partnered with over 700 schools, supporting over 750,000 students to reach their academic potential, independent of socioeconomic status, geography, language, or other barriers - what a great mission!

Challenge

The Data Engineer will be responsible for expanding and optimizing the data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of designing and optimizing their data architecture to support the company's growth.

What you’ll do

- Create and maintain a product API for data requests

- Design data models, utilizing patterns such as star schemas, data vault, 3NF, temporal, and flat dimensional/fact as appropriate

- Develop of micro-batch/real-time idempotent data pipelines

- Create CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of data pipelines to production

- Participate in architecture reviews and provide input on the cloud data pipeline tools

- Ensure the code is versioned, data quality checks exist in each stage of the pipeline

- Collaborate with CloudOps on the creation of accounts, roles, resource provisioning, and continuous deployment of the data pipeline.

- Develop metrics to track/monitor the pipeline and notify/respond in case of anomalies

- Able to migrate and integrate data from AWS RDS, Salesforce, etc. to BigQuery

- Able to take backup, restore and upgrade databases to major version

In order to succeed in this position, you will need

Mandatory skills

- Vast experience in a data engineering role

- Proficiency with SQL, Python/Pandas, Bash, and columnar databases/cloud data warehouse

- Strong analytic skills related to working with semi/unstructured datasets.

- Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

- Working experience with ownership of the end-to-end data pipeline with big data workloads and serverless/distributed processing using tools/services similar to PubSub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and DBT.

- Ability to explain concepts such as compute layer, storage, nodes, concurrency, cache, optimizer, authentication, parallelism, materialized views, execution statistics, and query plan

Nice to have

- Experience with Google cloud services and stream-processing systems is a plus

- Experience with data orchestration/workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, Prefect, etc.

Non-technical skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

About Ubiminds

Our Culture

People First. We are all about people!

Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.

Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment.

We’re in this together. We work as a team, we thrive as a team and we evolve as a team.

Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations.

Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.

Perks and Benefits

As Data Engineer @Ubiminds, you:

- Are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.

- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.

- Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.

- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).

- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!

- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!

- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)

- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games

How our process works

1. Interview with Tech Recruiter (chat about the job opening and your experiences)

2. Client process (this may vary)

3. Offer (yay)

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