Senior Data Engineer

Job Overview

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home - from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U. S.

, people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses.

Job Description

If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together. About the Data Engineering Team Thumbtack’s Data Engineering org is split into 3 groups: Core Data Engineering, Data Platform and Embedded Data Engineering.

This role is on the Embedded Data Engineering team, which breaks down into multiple business units that data engineers are embedded into.

This role would be on the commercial operations side of the house and will work closely with engineers, analysts, data scientists and machine learning engineers to help design and curate data sets originating from internal and third-party sources to meet current and future needs.

The challenge There are several teams all over Thumbtack with Terabytes of data and unique challenges trying to clean and organize this data to measure their performance.

What you’ll do Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Imagine what we’ll build together.
• Over the next year, it will continue to build on its prior successes in building a more cohesive data warehouse while starting to work more deeply upstream to build data best practices into the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• In this role, you will work with Engineers, Data Scientists, Managers, and others to understand their needs, and actively work to build datasets to tackle these challenges.
• Design, architect, and maintain core operations datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning.
• Help build the next generation data products at Thumbtack, leveraging AI models for code generation and incorporating agents into our workflows.
• In order to be successful, you must bring 4+ years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses.
• Expertise in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline, or similar.
• Expertise building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse, in our case we use BigQuery, dbt, and Apache Airflow, but a similar stack is fine.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home - from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience.
• In order to be successful, you must bring 4+ years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses.
• Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders.
• Experience using AI to generate design plans, code and documentation as well as applying AI-enabled workflows to accelerate development velocity and improve data engineering practices.
• Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
• We put as much craftsmanship into candidate safety as we do into the hiring experience itself.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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