Founding Analytics Engineer

Zefir
Paris, France
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English, French
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Airflow Data Analysis BigQuery Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Warehousing Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) SQL Databases Sql Optimization System Availability
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Snowflake Production Code

Job description

Canonical models and metric definitions. A documented semantic layer with canonical entities (Buyer, Seller, Asset, Agent) and Bronze / Silver / Gold layers. Clear contracts between what Engineering exposes and what BI consumes, so that KPI debates stop being about whose number is right.

Self-serve enablement. The submerged part of the iceberg: clean models, consistent BI primitives, row- and column-level security, so Ops, Growth, Finance and Account Managers build their own dashboards without compromising compliance.

Analytics and tracking governance. The global event taxonomy and tracking roadmap, a hybrid client-side and server-side event strategy, consistent sync across CRMs and marketing platforms, and GDPR consent flows by design, so acquisition spend runs on attribution we can trust.

Platform reliability, safety and cost. Standards set once rather than team by team: tested and versioned transformations, monitoring of freshness, failures and usage, sane ingestion patterns (read replicas, CDC, batch), and no production code path depending on BI tables.

One thing worth stating plainly: our AI tooling already queries the warehouse directly, and the cost of it is not under control yet. Designing the guardrails, the schema curation and the authorisation layer is part of the job from week one, not a phase two.

Requirements

  • 7+ years as a Data, Analytics or Platform Engineer, ideally including a stint at a fast-moving consumer or marketplace company. Staff or Lead exposure expected.
  • Hands-on with the modern data stack: BigQuery (or Snowflake, Redshift), dbt or equivalent, advanced SQL and data modeling, Python for pipelines, orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
  • You have shipped event tracking and instrumentation in production, end to end: taxonomy, client and server-side events, attribution, GDPR-compliant opt-out, propagation downstream.
  • Comfortable with ingestion patterns (Fivetran, Airbyte, CDC), reverse-ETL (Hightouch, Census, Segment), and access governance (IAM, row- and column-level security, PII tagging).
  • You have built and owned a semantic or metrics layer, and you can arbitrate metric definitions with Finance, Ops and Growth without flinching.
  • You treat AI agents as first-class data consumers: exposing data through MCPs, semantic APIs or text-to-SQL, with proper guardrails.
  • Strong ownership: you write the standards, defend them, and fix what is broken without waiting for permission.
  • A clear communicator who turns “ping the data person” rituals into self-serve handoffs.
  • Fluent in English and French.

Benefits & conditions

  • One documented event taxonomy, actually used by Engineering, Growth and CRM.
  • One semantic layer where every shared KPI has a single definition, a single owner and a version history. New joiners understand the data model in days, not months.
  • Published freshness and failure SLAs, an explicit ingestion topology, and no production path depending on BI tables.
  • Ops, Growth, Finance and AMs build most of their recurring dashboards themselves, and AI agents query the data layer safely through curated MCPs.
  • Growth attribution is trustworthy enough that annual acquisition spend decisions are defensible end to end., The following is for permanent employees only. For other contracts (interns, apprentices, fixed-term..), please, check with your recruiter.

  • Competitive salary: You can run your own simulation with our salary calculator.
  • BSPCE (Stock Options): Available for everyone, with monthly vesting after year one, over a 4-year period.
  • Healthcare plan: Full coverage with Alan for team members, their partners, and children.
  • Office in Le Peletier, Paris (9th arrondissement): With flexible remote work options.
  • Swile meal card: €11 per worked day.
  • Swile mobility card: €42/month to support sustainable transportation (metro, carpooling, biking…).
  • Team events: Monthly Mixers to connect and share good times, and quarterly All Hands to celebrate wins across the company.

About the company

Zefir is building an AI autopilot for home sales in Europe, starting in France: an AI agent runs the entire sale and purchase journey end-to-end, orchestrating local brokers, portals, buyers, and documents.

Backed by over $55 million from top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital, we’re committed to accelerating life changes for millions of current and future European homeowners.

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