LIKEtoKNOW.it (LTK) is the largest influencer-driven platform used by millions of shoppers every month to find new styles and products curated by influencers all over the world. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be part of a growth-hungry, acceleration-minded team of problem-solvers and product-builders. This is an opportunity to grow with a fast-growing organization. We thrive in an extremely dynamic competitive environment. We focus relentlessly on the needs of our influencers, brands, and consumers. We seek thought-leaders who can collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to identify actionable insights to help us grow. Responsibilities:
- Serve as core organization mentor and ‘go-to’ thought leader for data engineers, analysts, developers, and others interested in the field
- Be technical owner of end-to-end technical aspects of LTK Data engineering effort including but not limited to LTK Data lake architecture, ETL processes, development and support
- Leverage and utilize suitable technologies to ensure scalability, sustainability, flexibility and security of LTK data platform
- Influence strategic thinking across the team and the broader organization.
- Maintain proof-of-concepts and prototype data solutions, and handles any assessment of data engineering viability and scalability, with data engineering team and in partnership with other departments
- Ensures data solutions include deliverables required to achieve high quality data.
- Present a strong understanding of complex multi-tier, multi-platform systems, and apply principles of metadata, lineage, business definitions, compliance, and data security to project work.
- Mentor and lead peer data engineers in adopting best daa engineering practices
- Work with other departments, assists in building robust systems focusing on long-term and ongoing maintenance and support.
- Experience driving production-grade, multi-million dollar data strategy
- Experience driving end to end ETL data pipelines, from ingestion of data to consumption by business intelligence, analytics and other data consumer teams;
- Experience with Data management and Data governance processes and standards;
- Excellent expertise of system design and application architecture for data platforms;
- Extensive knowledge in SQL fine tuning, optimizers and execution plans;
- Proven experience building complex data models to handle millions of transactions;
- Expertise in Scala, or Python programming at minimum, with demonstrated real-world experience building out data tools in Cloud environments
- 13-15+ years experience in building data pipelines, coding for data management, data warehousing, or other data environments, including, but not limited to Spark. Experience and knowledge about Databricks is a plus;
- Proven extensive experience working with AWS cloud computing environment. Profound knowledge of AWS Data services (eg: Redshift, S3, EMR, Glue, RDS, Kinesis, and so on)
- Experience in application design and implementation, as senior technical lead role, using agile practices;
- Experience working on a remote team and coaching / mentoring / leading data engineer team members;
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or a related field; Master’s preferred
What's in it for you?
- Interesting problems to solve
- Competitive comp and benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Wellness benefits including workout from home with our live Virtual Fitness Classes!
- 401k retirement plan with LTK matching contribution
- Flexible work schedule plus Summer Fridays (Workday ends at 3pm)
- Virtual Company Happy Hours and Virtual Team Events!
- Disrupting the retail industry!
What you have to look forward to when you work or visit for team huddles at a LTK Office:
- Fully stocked bars and kitchen (free snacks all day!)
- Catered meals weekly
- Monthly Chair massages
- Laidback office environment
- Monthly themed Happy Hours!
- Free access to state of the art gym while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
- Free Covered Parking on-site while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
About Us
LTK is the largest global influencer marketing platform. Founded in 2011 by Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box, the company’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle creators to be as economically successful as possible.
Now in its 10th year, LTK has grown to become a three-sided marketplace, serving creators, brands and shoppers. In November 2021, LTK announced a $300 million investment by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that values the company at $2 billion.
LTK is the most trusted and effective business-enablement platform for creators, powering their universal LTK Creator Shops™. More than 5,000 retailers employ the LTK Brand Platform for performance-driven campaigns, paid collaborations and content licensing, and invested more than $1 billion in influencer marketing through the LTK platform by summer 2021.
Shoppers purchase more than $3 billion in products annually on the LTK platform and app. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX with teams in the UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, China and South Korea and clients in more than 100 countries.
For US-Based Roles: We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B; authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
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rewardStyle is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
