Data Engineer

The role

The Data Engineer will own the data layer that powers agency reporting. This person will design and build the transformation layer and manage the BI data model to meet customer reporting needs.

What you will do

• Design and build the transformation layer
• Build transformations that turn internal models into clean analytical tables
• Make deliberate modeling choices regarding grain, naming, and semantics
• Build for correctness under the security model
• Establish monitoring and alerting for data freshness and quality
• Design reporting architecture in tandem with the core product lifecycle
• Support patterns including time series, cohorts, and point-in-time snapshots
• Build reusable pieces to meet future needs
• Own reporting for a module end-to-end
• Intake new agency reporting requirements and align them with data strategy

Required qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of software engineering experience, with a primary specialty in data and secondary specialty in backend web software
• Strong SQL skills
• Seasoned in dimensional modeling
• Experience building and maintaining transformation pipelines with tests, documentation, and lineage
• Skilled in requirements translation
• Experience with a modern BI tool and its modeling layer (eg. Looker, Sigma, Power BI)
• Ability to document and build reusable assets and self-service tools
• Comfortable with ambiguity and crossing into adjacent areas of the stack
• Eager, curious, and proactive in using modern AI tooling
• Passionate to use technology to improve outcomes for children and families in the child welfare system

Nice to have

• government or gov-tech data experience
• familiarity with child welfare data standards and federal reporting (AFCARS, NYTD, CCWIS)

Benefits

• Above-market compensation package (salary + equity)
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with 99% of premiums covered for employee and dependents
• Flexible vacation time
• 13 paid holidays
• 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave
• Sick/mental health time separate from vacation days
• 4 weeks of sabbatical after 4 years of service
• 401k
• Commuter benefits
• FSA and DCFSA
• $5,000 annual bonus for employees who volunteer as a CASA
• $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development

About the company

Binti is a for-profit, mission-driven software company based in San Francisco, CA. They build software for state and county government agencies to reinvent social services.