Team Lead, Data Engineering - Remote
BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.
We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.
BigCommerce named a “Best and Brightest” place to work in 2022 is looking for a Team Lead, Data Engineering. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Data Engineering team and drive the vision for a real-time big data pipeline and SaaS analytics platform using the latest cloud technologies for the #1 e-commerce SaaS platform.
An ideal candidate will have a background in Computer Science or a related technical field and possess extensive hands-on experience in building distributed scalable data pipelines and working with large data stores. You will be working closely with product managers, designers, application engineers, and ML engineers in a highly visible role. You are gritty, focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using engineering and analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of a product.
**To be considered an applicant must reside in Mexico**
What you’ll do
- Lead a team of high caliber Data and ML Engineers
- Build relationships with product, design, project, and technical operations teams
- Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new Data and ML products
- Influence and drive the adoption of Data across various product teams and functions
- Help the team create a culture of Data-driven decision making
- Own data quality for the pipelines your team builds and make them auditable
- Evaluate new technologies and build prototypes for continuous improvements in Data Engineering
- Build integrations with external systems for transmitting and receiving event data
- Partner with Infrastructure and Engineering teams to ensure instrumentation, logging and monitoring is in place
Who you are
- 5+ years of Industry experience
- 2+ years of experience leading/mentoring Software and/or Data Engineering teams.
- 2+ years of experience with big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, HBase or their equivalents
- Experience with AWS and/or GCP
- Experience building and deploying ML models
- 3+ years of experience with Java, Scala, and/or Python
- 3+ years of experience with SQL
- 2+ years of experience in building and monitoring near real-time scalable ETL pipelines
- Excellent written and verbal communication and project management skills
- Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, or MIS; or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Experience with tools such as AirFlow for scheduling and monitoring of data workflow will be a plus
- Experience with managed data processing services of cloud platforms such as GCP and/or AWS will be a plus
- Experience working with a team distributed over time zones will be a plus
- Knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Composer will be a plus
**Please submit resume in English for review.**
- Fluent in English
- Our ideal candidate will reside in Mexico City, Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, or any major city within Mexico
Our Hiring Processes Might Include
We want to see your problem-solving and analytical skills. Be prepared to write good, clean, scalable code. You don’t need to know our entire stack, but we’re looking for practical experience, someone who can solve production problems in the cloud.
- Recruiter Phone Screen
- Hiring Manager Screening
- Online Code Assessment
- Final Team Interview
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce
Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.
Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at https://careers.bigcommerce.com.
