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Staff Data Engineer

About Veho

Veho is the post-purchase experience company that unlocks the potential of everyday consumers and brands to fully participate in e-commerce. Building an entirely new end-to-end logistics infrastructure, powered by the latest technology and designed for the modern era of shopping, Veho is reinventing shipping, and all parts of the post-purchase experience as we know it. By removing the pain from delivery and returns, Veho is creating powerful opportunities for brands to engage and build deep loyalty with their customers like never before.

About The Role

You will be a technical leader on the Data Platform and Analytics Engineering team that is building the infrastructure foundations for data aggregation, management, and insights at Veho. Our data and engineering teams build products that power our operations (warehouse, transportation, and marketplace), help drivers successfully deliver packages with care, and provide consumers visibility into everything that is happening. Data and AI is central to our roadmap and you will be critical to its success.

In this role, your immediate focus will be to stabilize and scale our data platform using a combination of technologies from the modern data stack, and drive the future of the data platform to support Veho’s growth and operational outlook.

Responsibilities Include:

Assemble a data-intensive platform that is used by Veho engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business users from across the company. Drive and deliver the foundational infrastructure to support the product vision for data products.
Provide thought leadership on how to leverage data infrastructure in analytical and operational contexts.
Contribute to a fast-growing organization by setting the right architectural patterns, partnering, and driving build vs buy decisions.
Collaborating with stakeholders, peer leaders, and business leaders across Veho to create sources of truth data pipelines
Stabilize the BI stack that uses Metabase, Redshift, Fivetran, and Airflow, while implementing new technologies and patterns, such as a data lakehouse built on Iceberg
Establish and evangelize best practices for data engineering and data management.
Partner with engineering teams on rolling out operational analytics datastore to support leveraging data outcomes for operational decision-making (in the product or real-time in warehouses)
Build MLops workflows for machine learning teams.

What you bring

5+ years of software development experience
Experience with technical leadership and mentorship of other engineers and data specialists
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
Experience with data storage and data pipeline solutions and technologies
Solid software development background, including design patterns, data structures, test-driven development
Software development experience in building web services and highly scalable applications
Proficient with server-side languages such as Python, Java, GoLang, Typescript, etc.
Experience with data structures and algorithms and knowledge of relational databases (NoSQL experience would be a nice add)
Familiarity with data processing tools and platforms like Kafka, Spark/Flink, Pandas/Dask/Ray, Airflow, in an AWS-based environment
Experience with Devops practices, infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, and data governance, security, and privacy, are nice-to-have skills to augment the team
Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical information effectively to internal and external/non-technical stakeholders.

About You:

You are an experienced technical leader with a proven track record of delivering impactful results.
You have a deep technical engineering background in one or more areas of the modern data stack, and familiarity with other data-processing tools and platforms.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and have a sufficient understanding of all parts of the modern data stack.
Exceptional communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts into easy to understand language for our stakeholders.
It is exciting to work with a remote team; you value collaborating on problems, asking questions, delivering feedback, and supporting others in their goals, whether they are in your vicinity or in entire cities apart.

#LI-Remote

Veho is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Veho offers a generous ownership package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Veho employee shares one galvanizing mission: to revolutionize the world of package delivery by creating exceptional experiences for customers and drivers. We are deeply value-driven (Team Up, Drive Impact, Take Ownership, Solve Bigger, Obsess Over Experience, Make Today Count) and care tremendously about investing in people. We are committed to creating a diverse team and an environment that provides everyone with the opportunity to do the work of their lifetime. Veho is unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

Veho is committed to nurturing, cultivating and preserving a diverse and inclusive work environment. Empathy and respect for each other is core to our values and a central part of working here every day. The diversity of our employees, drivers and applicants is welcomed and encouraged.