Senior Data Engineer I

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Data Engineer and improve on and implement new features for our data platform, enabling a wider range of platform users and use-cases.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in data engineering or related roles
• Experience building, deploying, and running ML models in a production environment
• Experience maintaining and deploying server-side web applications
• A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, but you know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner
• Comfort collaborating with a distributed team of many remote colleagues
• An inclusive, generous working style. You like to mentor, collaborate with, and elevate your team by supporting your peers
• Eagerness to learn and grow and to support your teammates’ learning and growth

Responsibilities

• Implement and deliver complex, high-impact data platform projects, managing them through their full lifecycle with minimal guidance, and owning all stages from planning to execution
• Work closely with application developers, database administrators, and data scientists to create robust infrastructure to support efficient, data-driven insights and user applications
• Identify and understand end-user data needs, design solutions, and build scalable data pipelines that enable timely, informed decision making
• Create data frameworks and services used by other engineers and data scientists, focusing on scalability and consistency across the data platform
• Work within the data team to create, refine, and enhance data infrastructure and tooling, ensuring optimal performance, and maintainability
• Collaborate with data scientists to advance our production-level Machine Learning platform, balancing model performance with practical implementation
• Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders and engineering teams, using a solid understanding of the product domain to inform technical decisions and drive impactful work
• Support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring completion aligns with organizational goals, timelines, and standards

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules
• Unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees