At Hi Marley, we’re not just a technology company—we’re on a mission to revolutionize the insurance industry with our conversational platform that makes communication simple, efficient, and delightful. Built for carriers, powered by SMS, and designed by insurance experts, Hi Marley connects people through seamless, friendly conversations that save time, money, and hassle. Our platform helps insurance carriers strengthen customer relationships while streamlining operations. With a focus on collaboration, coaching, and powerful analytics, we deliver the insights insurance teams need when they need them—creating a smooth, frictionless experience for customers along the way.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer II to help expand our data engineering capabilities. In this hands-on role, you’ll contribute to the evolution of our data platform—building and improving the systems that power internal analytics and customer-facing intelligence. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is structured, secure, and ready to support our growth.
This is an opportunity to join a foundational team and build scalable pipelines, data platform capabilities, and infrastructure that enable trusted insights. Your work will support both operational reporting and product analytics, while contributing to a growing data function.
Teamwork and shared enthusiasm is a core part of our culture, which is why this role involves joining us in the Boston office for two days each week
What You’ll Do:
Platform & Infrastructure
- Contribute to Data Platform Evolution – Help build and scale a robust, flexible platform that enables analytics and data-driven experiences across our products.
- Build Scalable Data Infrastructure – Develop reliable systems to ingest, transform, store, and serve data using batch and near real-time approaches.
- Deliver Trusted Data Pipelines – Build and maintain resilient, observable pipelines that connect APIs, databases, and event streams across internal and customer-facing use cases.
- Support Data Quality & Observability – Help advance practices in validation, monitoring, and governance to ensure high-quality and trustworthy data systems.
Enablement & Collaboration
- Partner Across Teams – Work closely with analytics, product, and engineering to ensure data pipelines are structured, governed, and optimized to support key use cases.
- Contribute to Shared Data Models – Collaborate on well-documented, maintainable data models that meet the needs of multiple teams and stakeholders.
Team & Technical Growth
- Mentor and Contribute to Engineering Culture – Share best practices, contribute to standards, and support a collaborative, high-quality data engineering discipline.
- Explore and Introduce New Tools – Help evaluate new technologies and contribute to the evolution of our platform as our needs grow.
What We’re Looking For:
- Data Engineering Experience – 5+ years of experience building data systems, including hands-on work with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and SQL performance tuning.
- Strong AWS Foundation – Familiarity with AWS services including Aurora, S3, Lambda, and Terraform. You know your way around the ecosystem and can apply these tools pragmatically.
- Modern Data Stack Familiarity – Experience with tools such as Airflow, dbt, and Redshift or Snowflake for transformation and orchestration.
- Code-First Data Engineering – Comfort writing pipelines and workflows in Python or similar languages. You see data engineering as software engineering.
- Focus on Security and Governance – Experience working with sensitive data, implementing role-based access control, and ensuring data privacy and auditability.
- Collaborative Approach – Ability to work closely with cross-functional partners and translate ambiguous problems into clear engineering solutions.
- Bonus Experience
- Experience supporting or building analytics platforms for end users or product-facing features.
- Exposure to streaming or real-time data pipelines.
- Familiarity with dbt for transformation logic and data modeling.
At this time, we are only able to consider candidates who are currently authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require sponsorship now or in the future.
Who We Are:
Hi Marley has three core values that are the foundation of our company culture, which every employee embodies:
- Max Courage - we encourage our team, our customers, and their customers to dream big, try new ideas and maximize impact by measuring risk.
- Be Humble – we lead with appreciation and promote a culture of humility, compassion and openness to learn from anyone, anywhere.
- Ubuntu “I am because we are” - we believe true success is much bigger than any single individual or company. By aligning our individual aims behind a shared purpose we can achieve our fullest potential, together.
Benefits and Perks:
On top of an exciting, supportive and intellectually curious workplace, we provide:
- Full benefits package for employees working 30+ hours per week, including parental leave, a matching 401k program, and medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Open vacation policy - we all work hard and take time for ourselves when we need it
- Competitive salary and generous stock options - we all get to own a piece of what we’re building
- A fun, lively startup culture
- Core values-based leadership
- A culture of employee engagement, diversity and inclusion
- Ample opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup
Hi Marley is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, race, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building an inclusive work environment representing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, where all employees are encouraged to be their authentic selves.
Hi Marley participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information, please review the documents under "E-Verify Poster" here: https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/OnlineResources.aspx
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What We Do
Hi Marley is the first intelligent conversational platform built for P&C insurance and powered by SMS. Designed by insurance professionals, Hi Marley enables lovable, convenient conversations across the entire ecosystem, saving money and time for carriers while building customer loyalty through delightful interactions. Hi Marley's industry-leading collaboration, coaching and analytics capabilities deliver crucial insights that streamline carrier operations while enabling a frictionless customer engagement experience. The solution is made for the enterprise; it’s fast to deploy, easy to use and seamlessly integrates with core insurance systems. Through its advanced conversational technology, Hi Marley reduces friction – empowering innovative carriers to reinvent the customer and employee experience.
Why Work With Us
Our team is made up of people who care about each other and are passionate about what we do in and outside of work. We promote a culture of continuous learning, always seeking ways to be better for ourselves, our team and our customers. Creativity is encouraged and valued throughout the company and is paramount to our innovation.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We thrive on teamwork and shared enthusiasm, which is why we are in the office for two days each week.
