Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Mesa, a company revolutionizing homeownership affordability, as their first Senior Data Engineer. You will spearhead the development and growth of their data function, establishing best practices and architecting solutions for data-driven decision-making. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will standardize metrics and build visualization layers. This role demands a strategic and technical leader experienced in scaling hyper-growth startups. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering and operationalizing data pipelines with large and complex datasets
• Experience with data modeling, ETL, and developing patterns for efficient data governance
• Experience with manipulating large-scale structured and unstructured data
• Experience working with batch and stream processing
• Strong proficiency with Typescript is a must
• Strong with SQL
• Experience using dashboarding tools such as: Mode, Tableau, Looker
• You’re passionate about event-driven architecture, microservices, data reliability, and observability
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, handle ambiguity, and have strong product ownership mindset
• Must love dogs 🐶

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering at Mesa by developing & operationalizing scalable and reliable data pipelines
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with product and cross functional business stakeholders to enable to visualization layers empowering everyone at Mesa to make data led decisions
• Drive technical delivery - everything from architectural design to development to QA
• Participate in customer discovery efforts and initiatives as our beta users help us refine our product

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating with fintech SaaS products such as Plaid and Marqeta
• Experience in the payment systems, banking systems
• Experience in Expo, NestJS

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% covered Health, Vision Dental & Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) plan
• Fully remote
• Regular team and company wide offsites
• Unlimited vacation policy