Senior Software Engineer - Data

Strategic Employment Inc
Boston, MA, United States
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Airflow Amazon Web Services BigQuery Computer Programming Information Engineering Data Governance Data Systems Dimensional Modeling Python (Programming Language) Scrum Methodology Software Engineering
+7 more
Data Streaming Snowflake Apache Spark Event Driven Architecture Apache Kafka Machine Learning Operations Data Pipelines

Job description

This is a senior, high-autonomy engineering role on a cross-functional Scrum team. You’ll build and operate data pipelines supporting both real-time and batch use cases, partner with product, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable systems, and help set the technical bar for pipeline design, testing, and monitoring. There’s a mentorship component too - you’ll help other engineers level up their data engineering skills and contribute to broader technical direction.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with the majority focused on data engineering
  • 3+ years building data solutions on AWS, including real-time streaming and event-driven systems
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala
  • Experience with tools like Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, or BigQuery
  • Solid grasp of data modeling fundamentals, including dimensional modeling and warehouse design
  • Comfort working in Agile/Scrum teams and owning technical decisions with minimal oversight Nice to have: data governance/lineage experience, exposure to ML workflows, prior technical leadership.

Benefits & conditions

Based in the Boston area with schedule flexibility. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

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