Virtasant

Backend Data Engineer, Latin America

Virtasant

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in Latin America

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Tech Stack

ETLJavaScriptMySQLPHPPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain our client's data pipelines and data warehouses for user-facing features, analytics, and aiding business intelligence.
  • Develop ETL ecosystem tools using tools like Python, External APIs, Airbyte, Snowflake, dbt, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Amazon S3.
  • Define automated solutions to solve complex problems and better understand our clients' data, users, and market.
  • Assist the overall engineering team with database design and data flows
  • Develop engineering best practices, documentation, and process flows that facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

  • 2 to 5 years of experience working as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer
  • Expert-level understanding of SQL-based database design and usage
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least one programming language (Ideally Python, but PHP or JavaScript could work too)
  • Professional experience in high-volume ETL systems.
  • Effective communication with engineering peers, project managers, and business stakeholders.
Benefits
  • Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
  • Work hours - 8 hours, with US Central time overlap (10 AM - 4 PM)
  • Independent contractor agreement (after the first 6-month trial, it's a long-term, no-end-date contract)
  • Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata warehousesETLSQLPythonPostgreSQLMySQLAirbyteSnowflakedbt
Soft Skills
effective communicationcollaborationproblem-solving