Data Engineer
- Kitchener, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
Data Engineer
We are looking for a Data Engineer who can become a critical contributor to our product development & thought-leadership efforts. You will be part of a team that build new products that going to help online businesses reward their customers with roughly 12,000 rewards programs.
About the Job
Responsibilities of the Data Engineer are:
- Develop models to measure the health of merchants' individual rewards programs
- Determine important customer actions and aggregate customer data to track, and how to best manage it
- Find opportunities for improvement or development of features in products
- Use large datasets of reward programs & customer behaviour to generate industry-leading reports and research publications
- Work with Product Team and support their efforts in recommending new rewards programs and improvements to the largest clients in our business.
You'll be working with Rails, Postgresql and Redis on the backend, and the saviour that is Ember.js on the front-end - all hosted on Heroku so we can focus on shipping a great product. We use Github, Slack, and CircleCI to communicate efficiently and ship code every day.
Requirements
About You
You love writing code, crunching data and likes using a data oriented approach to solving problems in business. You love a challenge and aren't afraid to tackle big, messy projects. You enjoy collaborating with other developers, and get excited about the experiences we give to thousands of people.
You have experience in:
- Determining what data to gather to inform problem definition, problem solving, and opportunity discovery
- Approaching open-ended situation sets of requirements and coming up with a plan of action
- Working with large data sets, and choosing the best tools to do so
- Building models to simulate, predict, and evaluate simple & complex systems at scale
- Exploring and segmenting customer behaviour data to uncover problems and opportunities (nice-to-have)
Benefits
The Team
Join a team of ambitious self-staters who likes think pragmatically yet efficiently about solving unique problems in the industry. Take part in a high growth environment where you will be pushed to improve upon the necessary to be able create more value.
Social
We create opportunities for fun, there are plenty of interesting social events on the horizon.
Compensation, Perks, and Benefits
We offer competitive pay & health benefits, while also providing you with a top notch equipment to make sure you’re doing the best work you’re capable of. We also have a monthly eCommerce credit as well as a transportation credit.
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Contact us at careers@thinkoutsidethevalley.com for more information
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Data Engineer at Thinkoutsidethevalley will build models that measure how well merchants' rewards programs perform, and analyze customer behaviour to find product improvements. They will also produce industry reports and help the Product Team recommend new programs to large clients.
Requirements
Candidates need experience gathering the right data to solve business problems, working with large datasets, and building predictive or evaluation models. Exploring and segmenting customer behaviour data is a nice-to-have.
Skills
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Ember.js
- Heroku
- GitHub
- CircleCI
- Slack
- Data modeling
- Large-scale data processing
- Predictive modeling
- Simulation modeling
- Data analysis
- Problem definition
- Report writing
- Agile collaboration
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Top-notch equipment
- Monthly eCommerce credit
- Monthly transportation credit
Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
- Marketing
Keywords
- Data Engineer
- data engineering
- data modeling
- large datasets
- predictive modeling
- customer behaviour analytics
- data analysis
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Ember.js
- Heroku
- GitHub
- Slack
- CircleCI
- reporting
- business intelligence
- rewards programs
- loyalty programs
- eCommerce
Perks
- Transit support
Tools
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Ember.js
- Heroku
- GitHub
- Slack
- CircleCI
Languages
- English