Senior Data Engineer

Who We Are:

As Nelson Mandela said, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.” 

At LeagueApps, we agree. Mission-driven at our core, every member of our team is committed to a world where all kids and communities can benefit from youth sports. We help leading youth sports organizations operate, engage, and win with the industry's most comprehensive youth sports management platform. We power thousands of clubs, camps, tournaments, and leagues, and reach millions of participants each day.

Beyond our technology, we’re focused on developing the industry’s youth sports leaders through our NextUp: Youth Sports Management Community—providing them with opportunities for professional development and networking. Through events, content, and leadership development programming, we’re taking youth sports management to the next level. Through our FundPlay program, we provide support to sports-based youth development organizations that bring sports experiences to hundreds of thousands of underserved kids and communities. We are also founding members and leaders of the PLAY Sports Coalition, a group that advocates for youth sports at the national level.

LeagueApps is positioned for continued rapid growth, with financing from leading institutional and individual investors including Contour Venture Partners, Major League Baseball, Elysian Park Ventures, Julie Foudy, and Shane Battier, We were recognized by Deloitte's Fast 500 list in 2019 and 2020. We were ranked in the top 25 “Best Employers in Sports” by Front Office Sports, and named a "Best Place to Work" by Inc. and by BuiltIn NYC.

What You'll Do:

• Architect high quality end-to-end solutions comprising LeagueApps' Next Generation Data Platform.
• Design, build, and productionalize robust data pipelines & data warehousing solutions based on internal & external stakeholder needs.
• Recommend and drive the implementation of modern solutions to improve new and existing systems and processes.
• Partner with the Product team to communicate architecture and high level concepts to various departments and ensure key stakeholders are positioned for success both educationally & technologically.
• Remain abreast of new and emerging technology and trends in data analytics and consistently evaluate their applicability to LeagueApps.
• Play a lead role in vendor product evaluation & integration by drafting RFIs/RFPs and assess applicability of technology to business needs.
• Help define and drive alignment of data standards & integration methodologies with various squads across engineering.
• Ensure system uptime by implementing tests & adequate logging/monitoring.
• Help determine and implement operational, security, quality, and performance standards. 
• Work with leadership to help determine and execute on the roadmap.

Who You Are:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing, data governance, data mining, and data curation.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data infrastructure & third party software solutions.
• Excellent organizational and analytical abilities.
• Outstanding problem solver.
• Solid understanding of ML processes & technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in designing, implementing and supporting production data storage solutions for both transaction processing and analytics workloads.
• Familiarity with the following technologies: Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Tableau, Looker, Hadoop, and Spark.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL.
• Strong proficiency in general purpose programming languages like Python or Java.
• Excellent architectural & design skills (ability to diagram, articulate, and clearly document complicated workflows).
• Proven ability to work with highly reliable and distributed systems.

Nice to haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or relevant field.
• Experience with dbt.
• Professional experience with ML & Data Science

Meetings:

• Product stakeholders meeting
• Post-mortems for all incidents you are named as a participant. (Attend / Own)
• Retrospectives for any projects you are a part of. (Attend / Own)
• All sprint, scrum, or planning meetings for projects that you are directly involved in. (Attend / Own)
• Weekly company All Hands. (Attend)
• Any other engineering or company meetings deemed mandatory. (Attend)

Compensation & Benefits: 

• Equity Grants: Every employee is an owner in our Company
• Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision coverage, HSA
• Commuter Benefits
• Home-Office Stipend
• Sports Leagues subsidies for employees and their children
• Cell phone and gym subsidies (including Class Pass, Citi Bike, and New York Sports Club)
• Mental Health Resources; Talk Space and Calm 
• Social impact opportunities through our FundPlay initiative that includes events, volunteering and grant-making

LeagueApps is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization, and to helping youth sports organizers across the country do the same.

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