Senior Data Engineer
Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.
Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance, and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
About the Data Engineering Team
Thumbtack’s Data Engineering team is a centralized team that works closely with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to help design and curate data sets originating from internal and third-party sources to meet current and future needs. Over the next year, it will continue to build on its prior successes in building a more cohesive data warehouse while starting to work more deeply upstream to build data best practices into the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
“Opinions from all across the organization are valued and listened to, and it’s easy and encouraged to get involved with a project you’re passionate about."
Michelle
Senior Manager, Engineering
“Opinions from all across the organization are valued and listened to, and it’s easy and encouraged to get involved with a project you’re passionate about."
Michelle
Senior Manager, Engineering
The challenge
There are several teams all over Thumbtack with Terabytes of data and unique challenges trying to clean and organize this data to measure their performance. In this role, you will work with Engineers, Data Scientists, Managers, and others to understand their needs, and actively work to build datasets to tackle these challenges.
What you'll do
- Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for product teams
- Design, architect, and maintain core marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning
- Integrate with teams consisting of product engineers, analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers throughout Thumbtack to understand their data needs, and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design
- Drive data quality and best practices across different business areas
- Help build the next generation data products at Thumbtack, based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka
In order to be successful, you must bring
- 4 or more years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses
- Excellent ability to understand the needs of and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions, especially Analytics, and identify opportunities for process improvements across teams
- Expertise in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline, or similar
- Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders
- Expertise building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse, in our case we use BigQuery, dbt, and Apache Airflow, but a similar stack is fine
- Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance.
Perks & Benefits
Supporting you at work and beyond
In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:
Recharge with PTO, in addition to 20 company-wide holidays each year, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown.
$1,000 USD/$1,400 CAD annual stipend for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursements.
All parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and birthing parents receive 8 additional weeks, for a total of 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (US & CAN).
$30,000 USD/CAD lifetime max reimbursement for family planning.
12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.
$1,800 USD/CAD annual stipend to book a pro on Thumbtack for virtual or in-person services — anything from home care services to planning a child’s birthday party and beyond.
Perks & Benefits
Supporting you at work and beyond
In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:
30 days of PTO (pro-rated based on start date), including a week-long, end-of-year shutdown and a 15% night shift differential.
PHP 46,000.00 annual stipend to use for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide PHP 1,500/month internet allowance.
12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.
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HMO coverage includes yourself and up to three of your dependents (two at no cost). We also cover common-law and same-sex domestic partners.
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