Python Platform Engineer
1848 Ventures, backed by Westfield
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Build and own Python-based internal tools and services that power pricing workflows, diagnostics, and AI-assisted rate reviews
- Own and maintain performant SQL data models for downstream tools and analyses; familiarity with dbt or similar modeling frameworks is a plus
- Develop and automate data pipelines and jobs (e.g., Prefect or similar) so the right data is available at the right time
- Partner closely with Customer Success and Revenue Strategy to scope problems, iterate on solutions, and ship improvements
- Own your work from initial scoping through production delivery, including testing, deployment, and iteration
- Collaborate with platform engineers when work touches shared infrastructure or core services
- Help improve engineering practices around reliability, observability, and documentation within the internal tools space
Requirements
- Strong Python experience building production data or data-powered apps
- Deep SQL proficiency–you’re comfortable modeling data, writing complex queries, and reasoning about performance
- 0–1 ownership experience: you’ve taken loosely defined problems, shaped solutions, and shipped them in a startup or small-team environment
- Comfort working across the stack as needed–you don’t need to be a frontend or data-viz specialist, but you can build pragmatic UIs or interfaces when the problem calls for it
- Experience working closely with non-technical partners and translating real-world needs into technical solution
- Bias toward action, iteration, and learning in imperfect environments.
Benefits
- Real ownership & impact: you’ll be responsible for systems that are used daily by our internal teams.
- Autonomy with support: clear problems to solve, freedom in how you solve them, and partners who value engineering judgment.
- Startup growth curve: meaningful technical problems without big-company process overhead.
- Learning culture: progress over perfection, thoughtful retros, and room to grow with the role.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLdata modelingcomplex queriesdata pipelinesPrefectdbtautomationtestingdeployment
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationiterationcommunicationownershipadaptabilitylearningcustomer focustranslating needsbias toward action