Technology, Product & Design

Lead Data Engineer

We seek an experienced Data Engineering Lead to join our cross-functional product team and enhance our data infrastructure capabilities. This role is pivotal in supporting advanced analytics and AI-driven solutions at Superside.

Superside is at the intersection of creative services, technology, and product development. This unique position offers us the opportunity to shape data architectures that support both our internal operations and the development of external data products, driving new market ventures.

Reporting to the Head of Data and Analytics, you will collaborate closely with analytics engineers, data engineers, developers, and operational teams to define and implement our data strategy and infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Construct and maintain scalable, robust data pipelines that underpin analytics and machine learning applications, focusing on efficiency and data quality
  • Oversee the ingestion, storage, and processing of extensive datasets, ensuring consistency and accessibility to support advanced data strategies
  • Enhance data operations using leading technologies such as Snowflake, Airbyte, and Airflow to enhance cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency
  • Partner with analytics engineering and product teams to understand data requirements and craft technical solutions that drive strong data usability and access across the company
  • Provide technical guidance and career development mentorship to the data team, promoting best practices in data management and adherence to data governance standards
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in data technology and continuously introduce enhancements to our data systems and practices

What You’ll Need To Succeed

  • Skilled in ETL processes, data modeling, and metadata management, with a good grasp of IaC principles and proficient use of technologies like Terraform for infrastructure management
  • Experienced with CI/CD processes and cloud platforms, particularly AWS
  • Proficient with Python and SQL, understand software engineering principles with a good grasp of distributed job/query optimization (execution plans, partitioning, and auto-scaling)
  • Preferably some experience with Dagster, Prefect, or similar
  • Deep familiarity with modern data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, and real-time data processing systems
  • Ability to write and review technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accuracy
  • Experienced in developing junior data talent, mentoring junior engineers, and effectively steering projects to align with business goals while seeking growth opportunities
  • Excellent English communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders and fostering collaborative problem-solving
  • A trusting, resourceful, ego-free, and kind team player personality
  • Skills in operating in a global, remote-first environment, demonstrating a proactive and self-directed work culture

Why Join Us

Superside's vision is to create more equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we’ve built a natively remote company enabling us to attract the best talent no matter where they are.

Need more convincing? Here’s a skimmable, non-exhaustive list of reasons to join us:

  • A global community of talented people working from more than 60 different countries
  • Flexible working hours and fully remote setup. We've been remote from day one. No weird office legacy
  • A high-pace, high-energy, and high-performance environment
  • Trusting, ego-free and truth-seeking team members
  • Pioneering the future of work with a fair, friendly and supportive community. We’re pretty proud of this one
  • A career path towards increased responsibility, mentorship and leadership. We grow, you grow
  • Join us at the right time: impact the product as you would do in a startup with the resources of a profitable scaleup
  • See something you want to improve? Awesome. We’re a flexible and collaborative team that is always learning and growing
  • Disrupting a massive global industry with a huge market opportunity

Our commitment to your career

Hiring process

This is our general hiring process, it might be adjusted for certain roles when necessary.

Meet and greet

30min introduction call with a Talent Partner to learn more about Superside and your experience. No need for any formal prep beforehand, we’re here to get to know each other enough to see if we’re a potential good match.

Technical Test and Ability assessment

This is where you get to show us your technical skills. We've gotten rid of the old algorithmic, theoretical type of questions and provide real-world testing scenarios that are relevant to our current stack environment. The ability tests have been selected to measure the skills and competencies needed to succeed in the role.

Technical interview

1-hour discussion regarding your case assignment. This is your chance to walk us through your work and the logic behind it. We always set aside some time for your question so don’t hesitate to prep some! We want to make sure we’re the right place for you as much as you’re the right fit for us!

Final interview

The last meeting with the Management team will last around 1 hour and it’s another chance to talk about our mutual expectations, address any concerns, and dive deeper into how you could be successful in Superside.

Offer

At this stage, it is clear we want you! We’ll make sure you want to join us too.

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Superside is a revolutionary way for businesses to get good design done at scale.Trusted by 450+ ambitious companies, Superside makes design hassle-free for marketing and creative teams. By combining the top 1% of creative talent from around the world with purpose-built technology and the rigor of design ops, Superside helps ambitious brands grow faster. Since inception, Superside has been a fully remote company, with more than 700 team members working across 57 countries and 13 timezones.
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