Senior Data Engineer

February 25

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Magpie Literacy

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Magpie Literacy is a company dedicated to unlocking the potential of every child as a reader. They aim to tackle systemic inequities in literacy by developing research-based digital literacy tools for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Their tools focus on foundational reading skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, and meaningful reading experiences. Magpie Literacy's mission is to eradicate illiteracy by providing educational resources that help children become strong, confident readers. They offer a supplemental digital tool for kindergarten students, incorporating instructional videos and educational games to support reading development through engaging and developmentally appropriate methods.

11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and optimization of our data pipelines and reporting infrastructure. • This role combines advanced data engineering with strategic business intelligence responsibilities, driving technical innovation while mentoring and leading junior engineers. • The position focuses on technical leadership, stakeholder collaboration, and fostering a culture of excellence in data practices. • We’re an early stage, funded edtech nonprofit on a mission to eradicate illiteracy in America. • Our team is composed of former educators, literacy curriculum experts, and product developers who believe it is possible to teach every child to read, and to do so at scale via research-based instruction, personalization, and technology. • We center students in all decisions, in particular Black, Latino, Native American, and those experiencing poverty. • We’re building an integrated, comprehensive, tech-enabled pre-kindergarten through 8th grade reading product that students love and that rapidly moves them to foundational literacy and reading fluency. • We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our software development efforts and build our early prototyping work to a complete PK-8 product that achieves scale, efficacy, and market success. • This is an opportunity to join as a senior leader in a mission-driven organization, working to build a breakthrough reading solution for historically underserved students.

🎯 Requirements

• Lead the transformation of ad-hoc reporting needs into automated, scalable data pipelines • Develop and advocate for reusable reporting components using advanced engineering practices • Establish and enforce version control for all reporting logic and transformations in Git • Create parametrized report templates for robust self-service solutions • Ensure rigorous documentation, testing, and continuous improvement of reporting logic • Maintain and optimize data transformation code with application-level standards • Design and implement modular, reusable SQL and dbt models for diverse reporting patterns • Lead the creation of automated testing frameworks for reporting logic • Architect reproducible transformation pipelines for key business metrics • Support and mentor team members in building flexible, reusable components • Ensure reporting solutions adhere to GitOps practices and undergo thorough peer reviews • Strategically design and develop dashboards and reports for key metrics: • Teacher engagement analytics • Student performance tracking • Learning progress visualization • Operational efficiency metrics • Oversee the creation and maintenance of automated reporting workflows • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify strategic reporting opportunities • Ensure enterprise-level data accuracy and consistency across reports • Document strategic reporting logic and align with business goals • Support complex ad-hoc analysis requests from product and business teams • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, BI, or related fields • Advanced SQL expertise for complex data analysis and transformation • Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks • Extensive experience with BI tools and dashboard creation • Deep understanding of data warehouse concepts and ETL principles • Advanced version control with Git • AWS services (Glue, Athena, ECS, Fargate), or equivalent in other major cloud offerings (Google Cloud, Azure) • dbt for transformations • Docker and Infrastructure as Code • Proficiency with modern BI tools • Experience with data governance best practices • A strategic and analytical problem-solving approach • Excellent communication skills, up and out (peers, stakeholders, leadership) • Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions • Detail-oriented, especially with sensitive data (PII) • Proactive and innovative approach to solving data challenges • Commitment to continuous learning and professional development

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of $145,000 - $160,000 annually • Competitive medical, dental, vision benefits • 401k with 4% guaranteed match • Opportunity to work remotely for a mission-driven company full of change-makers • Work environment that values balance and harmony with a deep commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion • Opportunity to travel and meet your team members in-person 2x per year