Staff Data Engineer (Analytics)

The transportation industry has no shortage of complex problems requiring creative, data-intensive solutions in order to effectively and efficiently automate operations at scale. In this role, you will be expected to work autonomously and contribute to several high impact projects including architecting and building the data architecture to support Mastery’s embedded analytics and data science use cases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a highly scalable and performant data architecture on Azure using technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Debezium, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Github Actions
• Identify and develop methods to improve reliability, efficiency and quality of data assets and processes
• Closely collaborate with fellow Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers and interact with stakeholders across the organization to build data products
• Mentor/train junior level data engineers
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Stay current on software engineering trends and tools, and be practical but open-minded in applying them
• Maintain a high bar for quality and performance of your product with vigorous attention to detail and automated testing
• Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team
• Actively participate in after-hours deployment of the new versions of Mastery software products

Requirements

• Practitioner in analytics with a strong grasp of ELT/ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data management, data warehousing, and dimensional modeling
• Demonstrated experience mentoring junior level data engineers
• Demonstrated experience architecting a cloud-based data warehouse or data lake
• Expertise in data- and analytics-focused development, including experience with a variety of database, data warehouse, and distributed processing technologies
• Excellent SQL programming experience, including CTEs
• Familiarity with script-based analytic transformation tools like dbt is preferred
• Proficiency in at least one data pipeline orchestration and management tool
• At least five years of experience building and deploying production cloud applications in Python
• Understand and influence logging to support our ELT pipeline
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed stream processing systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong sense of responsibility with a bias towards action
• Comfortable self-directing and prioritizing your own work
• Ability to understand complicated problems and craft into simple solutions that can be maintained by the rest of the team
• Experience leading technical projects

About Mastery

Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world’s first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS. 

Our customers – large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies – have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function. 

Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today’s unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently. 

The challenges in this industry are big and exciting! We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you. 

Mastery Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff! We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.

At this moment we are all working from home and doing our part to combat the Covid 19 virus. We are creatively building our new work habits. We are respectful of each other’s time and personal life. We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits. We are dedicated to finding new ways to add perks as we live and work from home.

Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we’re looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble – which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry. 

Join us – you’ll love it – let’s build a masterpiece!

Benefits

Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance covering 90% of premium costs. Company paid life insurance for 1x salary. Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We fully support our work from home initiative as we do our part to combat the Covid 19 crisis. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals. Veterans, Women, non-binary, people of color, LGBTQIA, we welcome all to apply!