Software Engineer II - Data

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FiscalNote

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Legislative Forecasting • Legislative Tracking and Analysis • Regulatory Product • Legislator Analytics • Government Risk

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Compliance

🏛️ Government

Description

• FiscalNote seeks an experienced Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. • You will help scale and improve our data processing capabilities by designing, building, and supporting services. • You will design systems that integrate and work closely with partners in applications and data science for automated analysis and reporting. • The Data Engineering Team is responsible for the full lifecycle of open data in our Public Policy and Transcriptions products. • We maintain the quality and usability of a growing collection of unstructured and structured data from external sources. • Our data powers multiple client-facing products and internal tools, serving as the core foundation of FiscalNote’s success. • You take pride in ambitious projects that push your limits and enjoy collaborating with team members. • You are committed to seeing projects through to completion and prioritizing the best decisions for the team. • You’re comfortable around ambiguity with a high degree of autonomy, excited about solving complex problems.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of professional experience as an individual contributor in the software development industry, with a focus on backend or data engineering. • Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL or MySQL). • Significant experience designing and developing within a networked architecture, using APIs and/or message-based communication. • Proficiency with a version control system, especially git. • Proven ability to both work independently and as part of a collaborative team. • Have experience with a successful working relationship with Product + UI/UX teams. • Experience working with automated test and/or build systems. • Proficiency in Python preferred. • Experience running production services on Linux preferred. • Familiarity with a Cloud computing platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) preferred. • Experience with containerization tools (especially Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus. • Experience with document-based stores (NoSQL, JSONB, Elasticsearch) is a plus. • Experience with Airflow is a plus. • Experience writing and maintaining code in PHP is a plus. • Familiarity with video and audio conversion tools like ffmpeg, yt-dlp is a plus.