Staff Data Engineer
Full Time
US/Canada
With the rising cost of food and the challenges faced by our supply chain, Flashfood has become a staple in many North American families.
At Flashfood, we are on a mission to reduce the environmental impact of food waste and provide our communities with easier access to healthy, affordable food.
We are tackling this gigantic problem together, with a diverse team of people from all over the globe.
At Flashfood, we live by our nine culture boards. What are they, you ask? They are a set of principles and values that drive us to stay confident but humble, patient but persistent, united but able to challenge, and most of all, to create a safe space to be authentic and have fun. Our common goal and commitment to a sustainable future keep us motivated to push through all the challenges we face together.
We are purposeful about instilling inclusion into our company culture and are committed to building a blame-free culture where people have the ability to learn and grow. Our current team is over 51% women, and we’re proud to say over 47% female representation within leadership positions.
Who You Are
- A developer at heart who takes pride in a clean and powerful code base
- Deep knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Engineering best practices and get excited about making data accessible
- Enjoys sharing knowledge and working in a collaborative team environment
- Data governance, security, and compliance are top of mind
- Ready to take ownership and make decisions
What You Will Do
- Ensuring our system is architected to balance cost and latency
- Leading us through compliance, security, and privacy measures (CCPA, NYPA)
- Driving data modelling and warehousing initiatives to enable and empower data consumers
- Developing ETL pipelines to ingest, prepare and store data for the product, analysis, and data science
- Enhancing and automating data quality tests (Great Expectations, Deequ)
- Deploying data infrastructure to support product, analysis, and data science
- Building out and refining our Scala Spark Application Check it out for yourself!
Technologies:
- SQL, dbt
- Scala, Spark, Databricks
- Airflow, Python
- Redshift, Presto, Druid
- Delta Lake, MongoDB, Postgres
- Tableau, Superset
- Github, CircleCI
- Azure, AWS
- Terraform, Kubernetes
Why Flashfood?
- Participate in a fun & collaborative culture
- Work on interesting projects using modern tech
- Develop your skills by redeeming 1000$ a year of learning material
- Take time to share or think by releasing a tech blog or presenting at a conference
- Make a difference - In 2020 Flashfood diverted 11.2 million pounds of food waste while saving shoppers 29 million dollars on groceries
- Competitive base salary
- Company-wide performance bonus
- Casual and remote-friendly work environment
- Flexible working hours
- Variety of virtual events all year round
- Professional development opportunities
- Extra-long weekends from April to September
Flashfood is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. Please advise should you need any accommodation throughout the recruitment process. All your information will be treated confidentially.