Lead Data Engineer

• Founded in 2015 ReUp Education is the only organization that focuses exclusively on helping colleges and universities engage and re-enroll the more than 40 million US residents who have “stopped out” and support them until graduation through our patented technology-enabled service. To date we have re-enrolled over 57000 students for our university partners.  As of July 2025 ReUp Education partners with 140 active schools and a total of 1.78 million learners.  To date ReUp Education has helped 7960 learners graduate. Today we build regional marketplaces to connect the supply of educational opportunities with the demand for skilled and credentialed workforce professionals.

About the role

• ReUp Education is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help us empower more adult learners and educational institutions by designing building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and warehouses to support our products and services.
• This is both a technical delivery and leadership role with roughly a 70% focus on hands-on engineering and 30% focus on driving engineering excellence and mentoring other engineers (not people management). As a senior member of the team you’ll lead complex initiatives and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure quality data is accessible across the organization.
• This is an opportunity to shape the evolution of a modern data ecosystem in a mission-driven organization.

What you'll do

• Lead complex company-wide projects from start to finish collecting business requirements translating them into a scalable solution and guiding other engineers to build it.
• Shape the long-term technical roadmap for ReUp’s data platform and serve as a senior technical resource across projects.
• Provide technical mentorship to other engineers through skill development design guidance and code reviews.
• Develop and maintain scalable high-performance data pipelines to ingest and process large volumes of student and institutional data.
• Design and optimize data models in data warehouses to power business intelligence products ML models cloud-based web applications and marketing and coaching services.
• Implement validation testing and monitoring frameworks to ensure data quality.
• Proactively improve the performance reliability automation and cost efficiency of data workflows and platforms.
• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot production data systems to ensure reliability and uptime.

• Define and implement data engineering standards and best practices to improve data quality governance and performance.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for data pipelines models and processes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data engineering experience.
• Proven ability to lead projects and work cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms such as AWS and data warehouses such as Redshift or Snowflake.
• Experience working with orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational database design.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Mathematics or a related technical discipline.
• Strong communication collaboration and problem solving skills.
• • Nice to have:
  • • Cloud data certifications.
    • Experience working with ELT tools such as dbt.
    • Experience syncing data to and from Salesforce Iterable and/or cloud-based web applications.
    • Experience developing a curated data layer for data visualization tools such as Tableau.
    • Experience developing deploying and maintaining AI/ML models in production.
    • Experience with Agile engineering practices.
    • Experience working in higher education education technology and/or a startup.

Benefits

• Medical dental and vision insurance for employees
• • We pay 100% of the employee's premium and 50% of any dependents' premiums
  • Contribute up to $1000 to employee HSA/$2000 to employee + dependent HSA
  • PPO Buy-up plan available
  • FSA available
• Company paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance for employee
• Flexible time off and remote work opportunity
• Up to 80 hours of dedicated sick time annually to support your well-being and work-life balance
• 15 paid holidays per year (including Juneteenth and the last week of the calendar year)
• Company wellness days (2 per year)
• Day of Service (Paid day for volunteering)
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave (12 weeks primary parental leave 6 weeks secondary parental leave)
• A diverse team that fosters a high level of collaboration despite being highly distributed

• Hybrid: This hybrid role can combine the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration in our Austin TX office for 2-3 days per week and the flexibility of remote work.

REDEFINE THE POSSIBLE * INNOVATE WITH PURPOSE * RESILIENT BY DESIGN * ACHIEVE BEYOND EXPECTATIONS * THRIVE TOGETHER

At ReUp our values guide everything we do. We redefine the possible by bringing energy boldness and vision to every challenge breaking barriers and delivering outcomes that redefine success. We innovate with purpose developing impactful solutions that inspire our partners learners and teams—always rooted in balance authentic collaboration and integrity. We are resilient by design empowering learners teams and organizations to adapt grow and lead with strength in a changing world. We achieve beyond expectations by harnessing the power of data and evidence-based strategies to deliver measurable outsized results that create lasting impact for all stakeholders. And we thrive together believing that through collective action opportunities are not finite and limited but expandable creating an ecosystem of growth and collaboration.

ReUp Education is an equal-opportunity employer. Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin disability status protected veteran status or other characteristics to apply.

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship or work authorization transfers for this position. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

What We Do

Founded in 2015 ReUp Education is the only organization that focuses exclusively on helping colleges and universities engage and re-enroll the more than 40 million US residents who have "stopped out" and support them until graduation through our technology-enabled service. Today we build regional marketplaces to connect the supply of educational opportunities with the demand for skilled and credentialed workforce professionals.

Why Work With Us

Our power to help adult learners reach their goals lies firmly in the diverse talents perspectives and ideas of our people. We’re a prismatic crew with different backgrounds different opinions and different areas of expertise—united in our passion to expand success in higher education.

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