Data Engineer

K1X, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
28 days ago
Apply on www.indeed.com
Prepare application

Role details

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

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Business Analytics Applications Microsoft Azure Big Data Data Validation Information Engineering Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Systems Relational Databases Machine Learning Microsoft SQL Server Power BI
+7 more
SQL Databases Cloud Platform System Snowflake Data Management Machine Learning Operations Data Lakehouse Data Pipelines

Job description

We are K1x. Our platform powers the first fully digital K-1, transforming how alternative investment tax data is extracted, validated, distributed, and analyzed. Trusted by leading institutional investors, fund administrators, and accounting firms, K1x replaces manual, error-prone workflows with scalable, intelligent software. k1x.io

As our platform evolves toward deeper analytics, insights, and AI-driven capabilities, data engineering is becoming a foundational pillar of our product and technology strategy., We are seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and infrastructure that power K1x’s machine learning initiatives and future analytics-driven product features.

This role sits at the intersection of Product Engineering, Data, and Machine Learning. You will be responsible for creating reliable, scalable, and high-quality data systems that enable downstream ML models, reporting, and embedded analytics.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data architectures supporting operational, analytical, and ML workloads.
  • Contribute to the evolution of K1x’s data lakehouse strategy, including adoption of Snowflake.
  • Develop and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data processing.
  • Implement data quality checks, validation, and monitoring.
  • Enable machine learning workflows with clean, well-structured datasets.
  • Support analytics and reporting use cases including Power BI.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and AI teams on data solutions.

Requirements

Who You Are

  • 4-8+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering with a data focus.
  • Strong experience building data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
  • Proficiency with SQL and relational data modeling.
  • Experience with cloud-based data platforms (Azure preferred).
  • Understanding of data quality, reliability, and monitoring.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

It’s Truly a Match If You Have

  • An engineering mindset applied to data platforms.
  • Passion for building scalable, reliable data foundations.
  • Interest in enabling ML and analytics-driven products.
  • Experience or familiarity with Snowflake, SQL Server, Azure, and Power BI.
  • Comfort balancing near-term delivery with long-term architecture.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Paid parental leave
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid holidays, * Unlimited Vacation Policy + Sick Time + Holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Fully Remote Opportunity
  • Healthcare Benefits and 401K
  • Growing Startup Culture

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on www.indeed.com
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:24 min

Moving the semantic layer upstream to avoid vendor lock-in

Piotr Menclewicz Piotr Menclewicz · Europe 2026 Virtual

3:03 min

Career evolution in data engineering and AI platforms

Maria Apazoglou · Coffee With Developers

1:33 min

Integrating internal APIs and maintaining data sovereignty

Mahran Meißner Mahran Meißner · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:28 min

Defining big data and machine learning fundamentals

Ayon Roy · LIVE

2:46 min

Transforming data architecture from on-premise to cloud

Sandhya Menon Sandhya Menon · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:48 min

Standardizing data access schemas with OData

Florian Bader Florian Bader · World Congress 2026 Europe

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all