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Data Engineer (Remote - United States)
2 years ago
Company Overview:
Age of Learning is a leading education technology innovator based in Glendale, California, with a talented team of more than 600 individuals comprised of nationally-renowned educators, curriculum experts, developers, artists, writers, designers, engineers, producers, product managers, analysts and marketing experts! Together we develop engaging, effective digital learning technology and content to help children build a strong academic foundation for lifelong success.
Our flagship product
ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy ® is a comprehensive online curriculum and the #1 digital learning product for young children. To-date, more than 30 million children worldwide have completed over 8 billion Learning Activities on ABCmouse. We recently launched Adventure Academy, the first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game designed specifically to help elementary- and middle-school-aged children learn. It features thousands of engaging Learning Activities—including minigames, books, original animated and live action series, and more—in a fun and safe virtual world. Other Age of Learning programs include immersive English language learning products for children in China and Japan; ReadingIQ, a digital library and literacy platform; and a groundbreaking personalized, adaptive digital learning system that individualizes math instruction for every child through AI-driven technology.
We are committed to helping all children succeed. We provide our educational programs at no cost to teachers, Head Start programs, public libraries, and other community organizations, and have served millions of children through these initiatives. We recently established the Age of Learning Foundation to expand this work globally.
As we expand our global reach and increase the educational impact of our programs, we’re looking for passionate, ambitious, and collaborative leaders to become a part of our growing team.
Summary:
We are seeking a full-time in-house Data Engineer to join our development team. This person will be helping us develop high-performance, high throughput services using modern technologies and techniques.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, implement, document, and support Data & Analytics systems that adhere to software engineering best practices
- Proactively identify and resolve operational issues with evolutionary recommendations
- Ensure testing and validation mechanisms are in place so that data transformations are verified, complete, documented, and meet SLAs
- Execute projects on tight deadlines in a fast-paced matrixed organization collaborating with multiple product engineering teams
- Advocate and participate in Agile/Scrum practice to ensure process health
- Communicate effectively about data, engineering, process, and requirements
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of data engineering and/or software development corporate experience
- Able to leverage abstraction to solve complex problems
- Experience designing and building scalable data systems
- Excellent SQL skills
- Proficient in dimensional modeling for data warehousing
- Fluent in a general-purpose programming language (preference for Python)
- Understands how to leverage both functional and object-oriented programming
- Familiarity with DevOps (preference for AWS experience)
- Great at data mining
- Extensive exposure to Agile workflows
- Exemplary communication skills (both written and oral)
- Good time management skills
- Can work iteratively, defining requirements as needed
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience with DBT
- Extensive experience with Snowflake
- Extensive experience with columnar data formats
- Extensive experience with A/B Testing and related optimization across desktop and mobile
- Extensive experience with DevOps (preference for AWS experience)
- Experience with ML pipelines
- Experience working in Educational Technology companies and competitive landscape
Age of Learning currently provides:
• 90% - 100% of health and welfare benefit premiums
• A 401(k) program with employer match
• 15 paid vacation days plus 11 observed national paid holidays
• Team bonding events and a highly collaborative environment
• Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment in addition to an inclusive and supportive company culture
• Access to our internal DEI Task Force that focuses on ensuring our products represent all children on a global scale
• Opportunities for professional growth through professional learning and development programs
• A temporary 100% remote work environment, due to COVID restrictions, to help ensure the safety of our employees
• Monthly internet stipend provided due to temporary remote work environment
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