Technical Lead, Data Engineering

About Us:

We believe teachers have one of the most vital jobs in the world, and we’re here to support them. What began as a word-of-mouth marketplace where teachers could buy and sell educational resources is now a teacher-powered digital learning platform. Our community of 7M+ educators relies on us for engaging, accessible, classroom-ready materials—and we rely on our team members to continue developing solutions that improve the lives of teachers, students, and, ultimately, the state of education itself.

Role:

As a Technical Lead on the Data Engineering team at TpT, you will be guiding the team’s development and delivery of data solutions to ensure that people and systems have access to reliable, high quality, curated data. You will lead the team’s work alongside Platform and Product Engineering teams, as well as business teams including Analytics, Product, Marketing, and Finance. You’ll work to build and improve our Data Warehouse, pipelines, and related infrastructure, using your ability to think systematically, abstractly, and empathetically. You’ll help push the Data Engineering team forward, advocating for best practices and mentoring more junior team members. 

Qualities of a successful candidate:

• Strong grasp of advanced SQL, including windowing functions, nested queries, regular expressions, and a solid understanding of how relational databases and cloud data warehouses work.
• Experience with backend web development practices and tools, including CI/CD, SQL databases, APIs, git/GitHub, etc.
• Experience with building, scaling, and monitoring resilient systems.
• Experience with data warehouse design and development, including dimensional modeling and ETL/ELT pipelines, with a focus on data quality.
• Enjoys mentoring teammates and working collaboratively with peer engineering teams. 
• Committed to continuous learning, and communicating and sharing those learnings out.
• At least four years of experience as a software engineer, with at least two years on a Data Engineering team.
• Experience with the primary tools we use: BigQuery, dbt, Looker, Airflow, Kubernetes, AWS, Python.
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to speak, and write, clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Benefits & Perks:

At TpT, we believe the positive experience of employees is essential to growth, both individually and collectively. To achieve our mission of ‘Empowering Educators to Teach at Their Best,’ we must also empower the members of our TpT Team to work at their best. To that end, two of our core company values are “We Learn and Grow Together” and “We Enjoy the Journey.” We’ve committed to these values and to our employees through investing in added benefits and perks:

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
• Free Telemedicine Membership - 24/7 access to trusted medical advisors 
• Generous PTO and Wellness Days
• 5 Week “Recharge Leave” after 5 Years, to refresh and celebrate the impact you’ve had at TpT
• Generous Parental Leave (for new parents) for time to adjust to parenthood, plus additional six weeks for the birth parent
• Onsite Mother’s Room
• ‘Employee Resource Groups’ (ERGs) to promote employee inclusivity and belonging
• Engineering Learning Fridays (ELF), to provide a space each week for Engineering teams to collaborate and learn from each other
• ‘Professional Development’ Stipend, to support the professional growth of employees (including - but not limited to - subscriptions, books, lectures, etc.)
• Annual Company Events (Camp TpT, Field Day, Hackathons, Holiday Party, Summer Picnic, Classroom Visits, etc.)

Here at TpT we value Diversity & Inclusion and encourage people to bring their most authentic selves to work.  We cultivate an environment where people are recognized and celebrated for their individuality.

Any TpT applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the interview process can contact the TpT People Ops Team (accommodations@teacherspayteachers.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.

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