Principal Data Engineer

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

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 data engineering practices
• Work with other departments, assists in building robust systems focusing on long-term and ongoing maintenance and support.

Qualifications:

• 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 with DataBricks and Snowflake
• 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 as an employee of LTK?

• 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