Data Engineer II

About Northwest Web

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse. Built and run from New York City, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Founded in 1993, we now have 100 employees.

The role

We are adding a Data Engineer II to our operations team. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Sweden, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Day to day

• Write data quality tests with dbt or Great Expectations and alert on failures.
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs.
• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies.
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed.
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.

Requirements

• 2+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.
• Strong Python for data processing.

What you get

Compensation: SEK 61,000 to SEK 73,000 monthly

• Annual team retreat.
• 24 days paid time off.
• Home office setup budget.
• Paid parental leave.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual salary review.
• Wellness allowance.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Northwest Web LLC.