Remote Senior Data Engineer

Description:

• Brightwheel is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering team, playing a key role in the implementation and evolution of their web scraping and data platform.
• The position involves crafting and implementing a best-in-class web scraping strategy and infrastructure.
• Responsibilities include building and scaling pipelines that manage millions of records across hundreds of sites, enabling insights for the Analytics team and customers.
• The role requires using modern tooling to build a robust, extensible, and performant web scraping platform.
• The engineer will deliver infrastructure solutions for flexible and repeatable applications across disparate sources and troubleshoot existing data pipelines, models, and solutions.
• The position also involves building upon data engineering's CI/CD deployments and infrastructure-as-code for provisioning AWS and third-party services.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 3+ years of work experience as a data engineer or full stack engineer, with proficiency in coding in Python.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience building web scraping tools in Python using tools like Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, or Selenium is required.
• 1-3 years of deployment experience with CI/CD is necessary.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser behavior is essential.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/XML data formats is required.
• Candidates should have knowledge of cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• An advanced understanding of at least one big data processing technology (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake) is needed.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills are required to manage complex processes and technology issues without guidance.

Benefits:

• Brightwheel offers competitive compensation, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies, with a salary range of $81,000 - $93,500 a year.
• Employees are empowered as stakeholders through equity ownership, providing financial upside alongside the company's achievements.
• Premium benefits include healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision) valued at over $15,000, generous paid parental leave, and flexible paid time off (PTO).
• A 401(k) enrollment option is available to help employees plan for the future.
• Monthly wellness and productivity stipends are provided to support employee well-being.
• The company offers work-life flexibility as a fully remote organization, allowing employees to work from where they thrive.