Junior Data Engineer

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Job Summary:

Flock Freight is a FreightTech company that uses patented technology to move freight more efficiently and sustainably. They are seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain scalable data transformation pipelines and infrastructure, enabling effective data access and analytical processes across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain scalable, maintainable, data transformation pipelines using Python and dbt to power the whole company's data science and analytics needs

• Stand up new low-latency data processing infrastructure to provide clean data to machine learning models

• Apply software engineering best practices to the development, testing, and deployment of data systems and tooling

• Introduce and improve workflow orchestration and automation processes

• Identify, synthesize, and prioritize stakeholder requirements and opportunities for improvements to existing systems

• Define and demonstrate patterns for writing, documenting, and distributing data transformation code

• Participate in incident response for production data systems and monitoring automation

• Help maintain secure data governance and access policies

• Write and maintain detailed but clear technical documentation

Qualifications:

Required:

• 1 to 3 years of experience working as a data engineer or in dedicated data engineering coursework

• Experience working on complex data pipelines using SQL (preferably Snowflake) and Python

• Experience using popular data transformation frameworks like dbt or SQLMesh

• Understanding of data modeling strategies for both transactional and data warehousing workloads

• A solid conceptual grasp (and preferably hands-on experience with) orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar

• Familiarity with cloud data architecture such as asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar), HTTP(S), REST, S3, and data storage formats such as Avro, Parquet, and Iceberg

• Familiarity with common statistical, data visualization, and machine learning use cases, and preferably experience with popular cloud BI tools such as Mode, Sigma, or Looker

• Exceptional problem solving, analysis, decomposition, and communication skills applied within an agile development environment

• Excellent communication, collaborative demeanor and ability to work in distributed, multi-functional teams with the ability to articulate a point of view.

Company:

Flock Freight is a freight technology company that provides freight brokerage and transportation services through shared truckload shipping. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Encinitas, California, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.