Senior Data Engineer

Applecart is a high growth marketing technology company based in New York City, founded in 2013. Applecart has developed a proprietary social graph platform that uses publicly available data to map over 25 billion social relationships between more than 250 million adult Americans. Applecart’s platform helps major corporations, national nonprofit organizations, and high-profile political campaigns with their highest stakes marketing challenge: reaching hard-to-reach audiences of decision makers, spanning corporate executives, legislators, regulators, investors, members of the media, and more.

For years, marketing technology businesses have focused on solving b2c (consumer) marketing challenges (e.g. look-alike modeling to find new customers), but the traditional pay-per-impression advertising model has left a massive opportunity unsolved for: how to market when a company’s target isn’t the average consumer, but is instead a single, senior decision maker. Applecart is the solution to this problem for some of the world’s most prominent organizations.

Quick facts about us:

• Applecart has generated over $30M in revenue, with annual revenues in excess of $10M.
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, a former senior White House advisor, one of the earliest sales leaders at Google and Twitter, and two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists
• Our investors include global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, past CEOs of Fortune 50 companies and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel is a board member of the company.
• Current and past clients include Blackstone, Boeing, KKR, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Business Roundtable, Governor John Kasich, Congressman Conor Lamb and Republican Voters Against Trump.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, Bloomberg and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Applecart, you will join a team of talented developers and architect the core infrastructure supporting our b2b data products. You will collaborate closely with application developers to align our data strategy with business requirements.

Who You Are

You are a software developer with broad experience but who specializes in data modeling, ETL processes and distributed computing. You work with data warehouses, data lakes and all flavors of databases and know how to orchestrate/automate jobs managing big data.

Qualifications:

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience
• You have strong computer science fundamentals
• You have strong software development skills in a server-side language (Python, Java, Scala, etc...)
• You have designed relational schemas and worked with no-sql databases. You are intimate with data storage formats (JSON, Parquet, Avro, etc...)
• You have experience tuning/indexing databases including column-based systems
• You are a SQL expert
• You have worked with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, etc…
• You provision your own cloud resources
• You have architected data infrastructure and ETL pipelines
• You are an excellent verbal and written communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

• Your language of choice is Python
• You have ample experience leveraging PySpark
• You have a background in data science and know entity resolution and graph theory
• You have an interest in application development
• You are most familiar with AWS