Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join us.
Focus:
Design, implement, and maintain the ingestion, storage, and data flow backbone for Replays, ensuring session replay data (captured via RRWeb) flows efficiently from frontend capture to backend analytics and AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Own the ingestion architecture: Kafka (Confluent) → MongoDB/ClickHouse.
- Define and evolve the data schema for session replay events and associated metadata. - Build Node.js APIs and background workers to process and persist session data efficiently.
- Maintain data quality, observability, and cost efficiency across the pipeline.
- Work closely with AI engineers to expose structured data for insight generation and RAG pipelines.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers to optimize capture payloads and replay synchronization logic.
Technical Stack:
Node.js (TypeScript)
RRWeb
Kafka (Confluent)
MongoDB
ClickHouse
Supabase
Fly.io
Vercel
Requirements:
- 5+ years backend or data infrastructure experience.
- Proven experience with high-volume, event-driven systems.
- Strong Kafka and distributed data systems background.
- Experience with ClickHouse and real-time analytics pipelines - Startup mindset with focus on delivery and iteration.
- Familiarity with LLMs and generative AI
- Experience with productivity tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot
What we offer:
- Dynamic and supporting international teams.
- Regular assessments and performance reviews. You will have the opportunity for
- promotion, bonuses and a raise in accordance with the pace at which you develop and your performance.
- Remote, hybrid or office work.
- 20-25 vacation days per year.
- Equipment for work, laptop and all necessary additions.
- Access to trainings and courses.
- Private health insurance.
- FIT Pass card for many sports’ facilities.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
