Posted 23 Sept 2022, 1:06 pm

Data Engineer at Makeship

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About the Company

Makeship exists to empower influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their product to life through our community-powered crowd-funding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing. We're profitable, have grown the team from 3 to 60+ people in under 3 years, and we’re growing at an average annual growth rate of 400%+.

About the Role

As an early member of the Data Team, you’ll play a huge role developing and architecting a scalable data infrastructure for Makeship. Data is one of our most important assets, and you will enable better decision-making for all teams across the company. Every day, you’ll collaborate cross-functionally, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work make a measurable impact.

We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, and invest deeply in your personal growth.

Why this Role?

  1. Have a massive impact on the company. As our first database engineer hire, there will be plenty of opportunity for you to lead and implement technical projects. Your contributions will be felt right away, and will affect how we interpret data for years to come!
  2. Develop and architect significant changes. You will have the freedom to be creative and architect/develop a scalable database. This will challenge you to think about your design and bring your own ideas to life.
  3. Join us at an epic time. We’re a profitable and growing startup with millions in revenue. We’ve bootstrapped the company from 2 to 40 employees in 3 years. Join us and experience exponential personal and career growth!

So, what will you do at Makeship as a Data Engineer?

  • Build infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading of data from 10+ sources
  • Design, develop and maintain data integration pipelines for growing data sets
  • Collaborate with all teams to take requirements from prototype to production
  • Build data validation testing frameworks to ensure high data quality and integrity
  • Write and maintain documentation on data pipelines and schemas
  • Create dashboards to provide data-driven business decisions

This might be for you if you have…

  • At least 3 years of relevant work experience in data engineering and/or analysis
  • Interest in the content creation space: art, animation, gaming, and entertainment!
  • Proven experience in building data systems and ETL
  • A solid understanding of relational databases, data storage, and data manipulation
  • A strong ability wrangle data and find answers complex real-world questions
  • Experience with cloud native infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Experience with BI tools like Google Data Studio, Power BI, etc
  • Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • An ability to gather information and requirements yourself, in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have....

Experience with our technology stack (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, AWS, GCS)

  • Advanced skills in data scripting and database development technologies (SQL, Python, R)
  • API expertise for Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
  • Experience building data pipelines and warehouses.
  • Worked with data from Shopify, Hubspot, or Airtable APIs.
  • Prior experience building and scaling ML solutions
  • Worked in a startup or similar environment.

Benefits & Perks

  • Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs
  • Health and dental benefits
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation
  • 1 week of paid time off during the holidays
  • 2 mental health and wellness days
  • Paid time off on your birthday
  • Monthly phone allowance
  • $400 home office setup allowance
  • Pregnancy and parental leave top-up program
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Employee referral program

Makeship is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.



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