Senior Data Engineer

Are you looking to:

• Make meaningful changes at the fastest-growing tech company in Japan?
• For a fair, highly flexible, inclusive working environment where anyone, regardless of their background, can make an impact?
• To build the next bold idea in customer acquisition and revenue growth through conversational commerce technology?
• For a place where things are not just fast - but they happen now?

Your Typical Day With Us

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a key player in our data engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data pipelines and infrastructure. You will work on transforming raw data into structured formats to support advanced analytics and reporting. Your work will ensure the smooth ingestion, transformation, and organization of data in our data lakehouse, making it ready for data analysts to consume and transform into actionable dashboards and reports. We’re searching for someone with at least 5 years of experience in data engineering.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines to ingest data into our data lakehouse.
• Implement and manage ETL processes using Google Cloud Composer, Dataproc, and dbt.
• Develop data transformations within a medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold layers).
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements.
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of BigQuery datasets and queries.
• Document processes, designs, and architectural decisions.
• Design and develop a read-optimized data warehouse layer.
• Troubleshoot daily reporting pipelines.
• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate and interpret complex datasets.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with databases such as MySQL and BigQuery.
• Experience in both Python and Scala is preferred.
• Knowledge of dbt is a must.
• Experience with data platforms like Airflow, Dataproc, Great Expectations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• English proficiency is a must; conversational Japanese is nice to have.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Japanese language proficiency at a business or native level, allowing you to liaise with primarily Japan-based users.
• Understanding of cultural differences.
• Knowledge and experience in chatbots, AI, marketing, and SaaS products.

Our Tech Stack

• Backend Languages: Go, Python, Elixir
• Frontend Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript, React.js, Recoil, Zod, Tanstack, etc)
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, GCP Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
• Configuration Management Tool: Terraform
• CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI
• Monitoring: Grafana, GCP Cloud Monitoring, GCP Logging, GCP Cloud Trace, Opsgenie
• Data: BigQuery, Parquet, Spark, Scala, Python, dbt
• Knowledge Tools: Confluence
• Other Tools: GitHub, Slack, Jira
• Process: Scrum

Ready To Roll Up Our Sleeves

We are ready to roll up our sleeves and change the status quo if it means to make your experience better!

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary Range: Competitive (performance review every 6 months)
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break.
• Visa Support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates.
• Education Support: Udemy, Frontend Masters
• Flexible Working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization
• For Japan Residents: Work from anywhere, interim work from overseas, full flex time
• Additional Benefits: Housing allowance, club activity allowance, shuffle lunch allowance, bi-monthly free-flow beer party.

Apply for this Job

Please submit your application including your resume and cover letter.