Data Engineer

The role

This person will analyze large data sets using statistical analysis tools and techniques. They will collaborate with Marketing, Editorial, and Engineering teams on dataset building, querying, and dashboard implementations.

What you will do

• Analyze large data sets to get insights using statistical analysis tools and techniques
• Collaborate with the Marketing, Editorial and Engineering teams on dataset building, querying and dashboard implementations
• Support the data tooling improvement efforts and help increase the company data literacy
• Work with the ML team on feature engineering and A/B testing for model building and improvement
• Design, test and build highly scalable data management and monitoring systems
• Build high-performance algorithms, prototypes and predictive models

Required qualifications

• Strong written and spoken English
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Economics or related field
• 3+ years experience doing analytics in a professional setting
• Advanced SQL skills, including performance troubleshooting
• Experience with data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Proficient in Python including familiarity with Jupyter notebooks
• Strong Math/Stats background with statistical analysis experience on big data sets
• Strong communication skills, be able to communicate complex concepts effectively

Benefits

• Travel to team's offsite events
• 100% paid Uber rides to go to the office
• Learn about multiple technologies

About the company

Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users. It is a Silicon Valley startup.