Afresh

Senior Software Engineer, Data

Afresh

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$137,000 - CA$185,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build tools and frameworks that streamline customer integrations, enabling faster onboarding and better handling of customer data.
  • Create robust ETLs in PySpark and DBT to process billions of records from customer datasets, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, and ready for downstream use.
  • Investigate and implement new technologies into the data platform, focusing on practical solutions that address current pain points and anticipate future needs.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to design and deliver data solutions for new products and features.
  • Identify and implement optimizations to improve ETL runtime and data processing scalability, reducing the time and effort required for integrations.
  • Solve real-world data quality challenges by working directly with messy, incomplete, or inconsistent customer data to extract the signal we need.
  • Support team members by mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and providing clear, actionable feedback.

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing and maintaining ETLs that process large-scale datasets.
  • Proficiency with Python, PySpark, SQL, and experience working on platforms/tools like Databricks, Snowflake, or DBT.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with ambiguous or incomplete requirements to deliver concrete, impactful solutions.
  • A focus on practical outcomes—you're skilled at balancing technical rigor with the need to get things done.
  • Experience working directly with complex, unclean datasets and finding innovative ways to process and analyze them.
  • A knack for identifying areas where tooling or automation can simplify workflows and reduce manual effort.
  • Excellent communication skills—you’re able to explain your ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven leadership in technical projects, with a willingness to mentor and help others grow.
Benefits
  • Join a mission-driven company reducing millions of pounds of food waste in grocery stores per year.
  • Work on challenging, real-world problems that have a direct impact on our customers.
  • Be part of a collaborative, supportive team where your ideas are valued and acted on.
  • Use cutting-edge tools and platforms to solve meaningful data challenges.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
ETLPySparkDBTPythonSQLdata processingdata qualitydata integrationdata analysisdata scalability
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationmentoringleadershipcollaborationtechnical discussionsfeedbackpractical outcomesinnovationworkflow optimization