Role Responsibilities
- Drive impact by architecting the pipelines and infrastructure that power our research-driven health products.
- Own the design and development of both real-time and batch data systems, from event ingestion to analytics-ready datasets.
- Manage and transform raw data streams from wearables, APIs, and internal tools into structured, reliable sources of truth.
- Build scalable backends and data services that deliver insights seamlessly across our platform.
- Improve reliability and observability through robust monitoring, logging, and automated backfills.
- Establish and maintain a living data knowledge base to enhance discoverability, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.
- Work closely with product and analytics teams to enable experimentation and faster iteration.
- Lay the foundations for a future data organization, setting standards, processes, and systems that scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer with a strong data focus.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with proven ability to work efficiently with large datasets.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and working directly with raw, messy data.
- Understanding of streaming systems and real-time data processing.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Airflow, Spark, or Databricks.
- Strong grasp of data modeling, warehousing, and distributed systems.
- Pragmatic approach to building—balancing scalability, speed, and simplicity.
- Clear communicator who can articulate technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical teammates.
- Experience with digital signal processing or time-series data.
- Background in experimentation frameworks and data-driven product development.
- Prior startup experience, with a comfort level in ambiguity and ownership.
Top Skills
What We Do
Paceline is a health and wellness platform that incentivizes consumers to live a healthy lifestyle.
Our mission is to bring the worlds of physical and financial rewards together by rewarding users for doing the types of physical activities they love most. We offer curated incentives from health and wellness brands that yield healthier and more valuable customers to partners of all kinds.
If you’re passionate about health and wellness and want to help us redefine an industry - we want to hear from you. If you want to be part of a passionate and diverse team of individuals working towards the goal of a healthier more active society - we want to hear from you. If you want to help make Paceline one of the best places to work in the country - we want to hear from you.
So come join us and help change the face of health and wellness worldwide.
Learn more about what we’re working on at www.paceline.fit
