[Remote] Staff Data Engineer, Analytics

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Afresh is an AI platform for grocery that helps grocers make smarter decisions and reduce food waste. The Staff Data Engineer will provide technical leadership for the analytics platform by developing data models, pipelines, governance processes, semantic metrics, and tooling for internal and customer-facing analytics products. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Improving, extending, and optimizing our data analytics architecture to provide reliable and accessible data for our suite of data products
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the company to understand their data needs, and then build extensible dimensional models, semantic layer metrics, and agentic context and tooling that will allow for consistent and reliable AI-assisted insights
• Evolving our existing data quality and data governance processes; and
• Mentoring and up-skilling other engineers

Skills

• 6+ years of experience as a data engineer, analytics engineer, or similar role
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to facilitate cross-team and cross-functional collaboration and information-sharing
• A drive to learn new skills and dive into unfamiliar domains
• A strong sense of ownership and agency — taking initiative to spot problems and solve them without waiting to be told
• Fluency in advanced concepts in SQL, dimensional modeling, and data warehouse design; experience with Cloud Data Warehouse platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
• Proficiency in dbt
• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow/Astronomer, Dagster, or similar)
• Experience with modern semantic layers: LookML, Cube.dev, Databricks Metrics Views, dbt MetricFlow, etc.)
• Experience designing and optimizing pipelines of billion+ row datasets
• Experience working with and extending AI models to produce high quality code and reliable analytics
• Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, WI

Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• Dedicated mental health support and counseling services (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• A 401(k) program with a generous company match (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• A home office stipend (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• An annual professional development budget (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• Monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• Flexible paid time off (full-time U.S. employees are eligible)
• Remote work for employees residing in AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, or WI

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