Senior Data Engineer

About Apptegy

Apptegy partners with school districts to simplify communication, elevate their brand, and empower every role in their organization. We put our clients front and center in everything we do because it's our clients who are most passionate about education. We build our products and features to make everyone in a school community better communicators. Ask any of our clients about us, and they will tell you that Apptegy’s people are thoughtful and high-performing. Our fast response time and quality support mean school leaders, teachers, and staff always have a partner ready to help provide a solution. Joining Apptegy is your opportunity to be on a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in everyone. That’s how we’ve grown quickly and won (and kept) thousands of school districts across the U.S. Our team is fast-growing and you’ll have the tools, the mentors, and the resources you need to be successful. We ask you to be someone who is internally motivated to do your best work and that you care about others. Apptegy’s Senior Data Engineer position is your opportunity to join a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.

Why You’ll Love This Job

A Product Sr Data Engineer at Apptegy is a key member of our growing team of data experts, responsible for expanding and optimizing our data ingestion, pipeline, and identity resolution architecture. This role ensures seamless data flow and collection across cross-functional teams, enabling data-driven decision-making.

The ideal candidate is a skilled data pipeline builder and data wrangler who thrives on optimizing and building data systems from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Key Teams: Work alongside Software Engineers, Staff/Principal Engineers, and Business Data Engineers to develop data-driven features and maintain optimal data architecture. 
• Optimize & Automate Processes: Identify, design, and implement internal improvements such as process automation, data delivery optimization, and scalable infrastructure enhancements.   
• Develop Robust Data Infrastructure: Design and implement scalable data models while building and maintaining ETL pipelines for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) from various sources using SQL, DBT, and Python. 
• Support Stakeholders: Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Staff/Principal engineers to address technical data challenges and support infrastructure needs.  
• Consult on Complex Data Needs: Occasionally collaborate with other departments to assemble large, complex datasets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong experience developing data pipelines using Python and DBT/SQL. 
• Proven ability to design, build, and optimize scalable, reliable pipelines with deep knowledge of data modeling and transformation best practices. 
• Hands-on experience with Airflow (or other equivalent tool) for task automation. 
• Proficiency in developing unit and integration tests, with quality gates to ensure data accuracy and reliability in pipelines. 
• Experience supporting and partnering with teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Bonus Skills (Preferred but Not Required)

• Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL and Snowflake. 
• Familiarity with data pipeline and workflow management tools like CloverDX, Informatica, etc. 
• Exposure to AWS cloud services such as EC2, RDS, Aurora Serverless,  SQS, Lambda. 
• Proficiency in one or more other programming languages like Java, Ruby, etc. 
• Experience with Kubernetes. 
• Experience with Kafka or other message bus technology. 

Apptegy will not consider remote candidates from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington for this opening.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience that’s why we provide:

--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage

--Retirement 401(k) with employer match

--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

--Mental Health Reimbursement

--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off

--Paid parental and medical leave

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.

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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.