Data Engineer

Job Type
Full-time
Description
This fully remote role is open to candidates in most states. Working remotely from a primary residence outside the United States is currently not permitted for this role.
We're seeking an experienced Data Engineer to help us build data pipelines to transform data from multiple sources into our reporting and analytics data store using modern data pipeline methodologies and technologies on AWS. Our engineers work on full stack solutions with a strong emphasis on SOA leveraging modern technologies and SDLC.
As a founding member of our Data Platform Engineering team you'll help us analyze, design, and build modern data pipelines that transform data into structures needed for analysis and reporting. You have strong Python skills, exquisite SQL and MySQL knowledge, experience building real-time and scheduled data pipelines, and have experience and knowledge regarding data pipeline strategies and technologies within the AWS Cloud. You'll add immediate value building systems that collect, manage, and transform raw data into usable information for business analysts and operations managers to leverage, making data accessible so that our organization can use it to evaluate and optimize our operations, performance, and inventory.
The job responsibilities include understanding and evaluating our current platform, data schemas, and stores; and collaborating with our Product, Merchandising, and Sales teams to architect and engineer our data analysis and reporting platform to remove and reduce friction across our organization. We'll be ripping off the "duct tape and strings" and building our next level data warehouse and reporting system.
This is a unique opportunity to join a successful e-commerce company pivoting in its journey, from a retail first company, to a technology company, in order to scale our platform to match our growth goals. Come help us build a team of experienced engineers transforming our full stack and aligning our technical staff & capabilities to meet the demands of our growing business and YoY success. As we build our platform of the future you'll have an amazing opportunity to create a long lasting impact as a founding member of our staff, as you help set the roadmap and technology base for our growing engineering department.
About Knack:
Knackshops Inc is the market-leading custom gift platform that helps customers deepen their interpersonal relationships through meaningful gifts. At the core of what we do is a firm belief in gift giving as a creative force for good in the world, and a commitment to making gift givers the hero in everything we do. Our mission is to disrupt the $60B "send a gift" market by harnessing technology to empower gift givers and build powerful digital experiences around physical gifts.
Knack offers more individualized customer experiences, ethos-based products and expert advice than any competitor in the category. The first 100% made-to-order gift challenger, our market-leading features such as video messaging, Gift Builders and Private Events are widely mimicked but not surpassed. Our latest innovation, Knest, provides flexible personal and company-branded gift sites that bring gift givers and gift recipients closer together by adding a digital experiential layer to the act of gifting.
Our culture is ambitious and collaborative. We are optimistic and mission-driven. We believe that people live up to the expectations we have of them, and we expect greatness from each other. We work hard but always have each other's backs. We problem solve but don't blame. When challenges arise, it's all-hands-on-deck because we expect mistakes and learn from them. We create space for employees to be their best selves. We trust our employees to manage their own time and location and we work hard to maintain our strong culture as we grow.
Knack is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Knack does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Requirements
Who you are:

• Have experience evaluating and understanding legacy schemas and acquiring datasets that align with business needs.
• Have strong experience building, testing, and maintaining database pipeline architectures.
• Have experience developing algorithms to transform data into useful, actionable information.
• Have significant experience with Python, SQL on AWS MySQL RDS, and leveraging AWS technologies to build data pipelines.
• Have expertise building real-time and schedule driven data ELT (extract, load, transform) systems that provide data formatted for highly performant reporting and analytics needs.
• Can ensure compliance with data governance and security policies in collaboration with our Security team.
• Have middle-tier SOA experience and skills designing and writing micro-services in Python, Golang, etc.
• Experience implementing testable code and unit tests in the UI codebase and middle tier services. We focus on quality vs quantity as we implement our test and evaluate our coverage.
• Bonus if you have experience with containerized services via docker and Kubernetes.
• Have experience with Docker, AWS Technologies, MySQL, Lambda (Serverless), and comfort interacting with AWS resources via Console, SDKs, and the CLI.
• You have a desire to drive platform reporting and analytics architecture, design, and implementation, and can communicate architectural concepts succinctly.
• You have a strong passion for modern technologies and driving innovation.
• Learning technologies and expanding your skills is always on your mind.