Location
San Diego, CA | United States
Job description
Our Company
Sketchy is a revolutionary visual learning platform. We turn complex subjects into engaging visual stories that you’ll remember—forever. Through a combination of art, science, and technology, our lessons help students effortlessly learn and recall information and score higher on exams. The short version? We’re like your favorite cartoon, only more quirky .
All are welcome! At Sketchy, we know a diverse and inclusive team makes our product and workplace better. Making Sketchy warmer and more inviting for everyone is at the core of our company's culture
Sketchy is looking for a Data Engineer who will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our data pipelines, optimizing data systems, and generating reports for the business. Additional responsibilities include optimizing data flow, collecting specific data needs across our cross-functional teams,, generating data reports in Looker and Heap. This role plays a part in helping us become more data-aware as a company and enabling broader data insights across our teams
Sketchy is hiring remote employees in these select US states: California and Colorado.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enhance our ETL/ELT pipelines
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability and usability.
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights.
- Enhance and manage our dataform modeling layer
- Build processes to improve data quality
- Build dashboards to help stakeholders access insights
What We’re Looking For:
- You have 3+ years of experience working on consumer web-based applications with modern development frameworks and platform technologies.
- You are knowledgeable of engineering fundamentals and architecture including distributed systems, ETL/ELT, SQL, NoSQL and cloud based services (preferably AWS)
- You have a strong SQL background and understand query analysis and the nuances of various RDBMS based platforms
- Experience working directly in BigQuery, Dataform and/or other Data Warehouses and modeling tools
- Experience in Looker and other reporting tools
- You are self-directed, requiring minimal supervision with the ability to think holistically around engineering challenges
- You are an adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
- You have experience designing and implementing app architectures and code that is both scalable, and performant.
- You have experience with modern tooling for instrumentation, monitoring, metrics and performance and cost analysis - Examples might include Data Dog, NewRelic, Heap, CloudHealth and so on.
If you don’t have 100% of the bullets listed above, that’s okay! We know there are no perfect applicants. If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference, we want to hear from you! Learn more about Sketchy’s culture at sketchy.com/careers.
Who you will work closely with
Salary Range
$120,000 - $150,000 annual
Our Perks
- Remote First - Make a difference from wherever you want to work.
- Flexible Time Off - We work smarter, not harder. No accruals, just real work-life balance.
- 100% Individual Health Coverage - We got you covered!
- Equity - From day one, you’ll have a stake in our future growth.
- 401(k) - We support your financial future with up to 4% matching.
- Team Events - Get to know the team with virtual events, monthly outings, company retreats, and more.
- Annual Work Anniversary Stipend
- Monthly Wifi & Phone Reimbursement
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
Sketchy Group LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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