Staff Data Engineer (Remote)

LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. 

We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.

LTK is the largest influencer-driven platform used by millions of shoppers every month to find new styles and products curated by influencers all over the world. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be part of a growth-hungry, acceleration-minded team of problem-solvers and product-builders. This is an opportunity to grow with a fast-growing organization. We thrive in an extremely dynamic competitive environment. We focus relentlessly on the needs of our influencers, brands, and consumers. We seek thought-leaders who can collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to identify actionable insights to help us grow.

Title: Staff Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical definition, prototyping, and production-ready enablement of LTK’s data lakehouse, optimizing efficiencies, performance, scale, and cost
• Establish reusable and scalable technical patterns and frameworks
• Promote and support the governance of LTK’s data lakehouse
• Participate in the overall strategic direction of the data engineering technology stack
• Stay abreast of data engineering technical trends and emerging approaches
• Evaluate new technologies and/or custom solutions
• Define technical projects (“epics”) with clarity including scope, technical approach, and work estimations
• Facilitate on-time delivery of technical work products
• Effectively communicate, influence, and gain alignment both within team and with interdependent teams and stakeholders (including senior leadership)
• Produce high quality technical documentation and artifacts that are easily consumable by data teams and other engineering teams
• Build required infrastructure for optimal ETL processes for data from various data sources using AWS, SQL and orchestration technologies. 
• Ensure the reliability and quality of data across the data lake (at rest) and in the pipelines (in motion)

Qualifications

• 13-15+ years experience in building data pipelines, coding for data management, data warehousing, or other data environments, including, but not limited to Spark.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or a related field; Master’s preferred
• Excellent expertise of system design and application architecture for data platforms;
• Experience driving end to end ETL data pipelines, from ingestion of data to consumption by business intelligence, analytics and other data consumer teams
• Experience driving production-grade, multi-million dollar data strategy
• Experience in application design and implementation, as senior technical lead role, using agile practices;
• Experience with Data management and Data governance processes and standards;
• Experience working on a remote team and coaching / mentoring / leading data engineer team members;
• Expertise in Scala, or Python programming at minimum, with demonstrated real-world experience building out data tools in Cloud environments
• Extensive knowledge in SQL fine tuning, optimizers and execution plans;
• Proven experience building complex data models to handle millions of transactions;
• Proven extensive experience working with AWS cloud computing environment. Profound knowledge of AWS Data services (eg: Redshift, S3, EMR, Glue, RDS, Kinesis, etc.)
• Demonstrated leadership and specialized expertise in at least 2 of the following:
• Batch data ingestion
• Big data pipeline engineering and optimization
• Analytic/MPP data warehouse optimization
• Analytical data modeling
• Event streaming data processing
• Data pipeline metadata observability
• Data Platform Cost Optimization
• DataOps

• Specialized expertise designing and working with at least 2 of the following data domains:
• Retail product data
• Ecommerce data
• Consumer profile data
• Clickstream data
• Consumer event data
• Marketing channel/campaign data
• Affiliate data
• Retailer/Brand data

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty Certification
• Expertise with multiple platform stacks and tooling (Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow Orchestration, etc.)

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What we offer

• The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce
• A remote-first, productivity-first environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family
• 401(k) with LTK matching
• Wellness reimbursement
• Paid parental leave program
• Summer Fridays, birthday PTO, and paid volunteerism days
• In-person team events

Benefits package includes: Medical insurance, PPO, HSA, Wellness benefits, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Paid maternity leave, Paid paternity leave, Family Bonding Time, Disability insurance, Life insurance, AD&D, Short-Term disability, Paid time off, Pet insurance benefits and more

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About LTK

Founded in 2011, LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content. The full-service platform connects brands, creators, and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that make content instantly shoppable. Today, premium lifestyle creators in 150+ countries drive more than $3.6 billion in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 20 million consumers turn to LTK Shops in the LTK shopping platform each month to find inspiration and instantly shop the styles recommended by their favorite creators. And, more than 6,000 brands partner with LTK to gain access to its global creator network for content that converts against performance-driven, cross-channel KPIs. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and currently operates on five continents. 

Our mission

To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.

Our values

• Be a team player
• Make an impact
• Bring on the fun

Commitment to diversity

LTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team. We employ a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to build a meaningful company and culture. 

For US-Based Roles: We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B;  authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.