Big Data Engineer

Position: Big Data Engineer

What You'll Do

Punchh is seeking to hire Big Data Engineer at either a senior or tech lead level. Reporting to the Director of Big Data, he/she will play a critical role in leading Punchh’s big data innovations. By leveraging prior industrial experience in big data, he/she will help create cutting-edge data and analytics products for Punchh’s business partners.

This role requires close collaborations with data, engineering, and product organizations. His/her job functions include

• Work with large data sets and implement sophisticated data pipelines with both structured and structured data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design scalable solutions.
• Manage and optimize our internal data pipeline that supports marketing, customer success and data science to name a few.
• A technical leader of Punchh’s big data platform that supports AI and BI products.
• Work with infra and operations team to monitor and optimize existing infrastructure 
• Occasional business travels are required.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience as a Big Data engineering professional, developing scalable big data solutions.
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering or other related fields.
• Demonstrated strength in data modeling, data warehousing and SQL.
• Extensive knowledge with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS and Azure.
• Excellent software engineering background. High familiarity with software development life cycle. Familiarity with GitHub/Airflow.
• Advanced knowledge of big data technologies, such as programming language (Python, Java), relational (Postgres, mysql), NoSQL (Mongodb), Hadoop (EMR) and streaming (Kafka, Spark).
• Strong problem solving skills with demonstrated rigor in building and maintaining a complex data pipeline.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate a complex concept with thoughtful, actionable recommendations.