Lead Data Engineer, Windfall

$120-200k

Salary varies depending on location

GCP
Python
Java
Postgres
Airflow
Kotlin
Cassandra
Spark
MapReduce
Flink
BigQuery
Senior and Expert level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area
Windfall

Data intelligence company

Be an early applicant

Windfall

Data intelligence company

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Be an early applicant

$120-200k

Salary varies depending on location

GCP
Python
Java
Postgres
Airflow
Kotlin
Cassandra
Spark
MapReduce
Flink
BigQuery
Senior and Expert level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceBig dataAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Company mission

To change how organizations perceive and use people data.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 8+ years of professional data engineering experience
  • Significant experience working with Apache Beam/Spark/Flink or MapReduce
  • Strong Object-oriented programming ability
  • Expert knowledge of distributed data processing
  • Familiarity with different datastores, their differences, and appropriate usages
  • Experience at a sub-200 person company
  • You communicate as well as you code
  • You can simplify complex problems into simple solutions
  • You balance a strong sense of ownership and responsibility in your work with collaboration and team alignment
  • You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery

Desirable

  • Previous experience in a player-coach role
  • Proven experience taking a large project from ideation to production
  • Experience leading greenfield projects
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native data engineering infrastructure

What the job involves

  • Windfall is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our core data team
  • As a Lead Data Engineer on our core data team, you will be building out the core data asset that everything else at Windfall is built on top of
  • Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall, and you will work closely with our product, data science, and other engineering teams
  • You will personally design and build the pipelines for massive datasets, taking them all the way from inception to exploration to production and customer use
  • We’re on a mission to change how organizations perceive and use people data. And we hold true to our core values of: (1) Be an excellent communicator; (2) Operate with transparency; (3) Provide leverage, not optimization; (4) Make a difference every day; and (5) Act with integrity and trust
  • Construct data pipelines to ingest and merge billions of individual entities into Windfall’s core data asset
  • Work closely with our data science team to run ML models on top of billions of data points
  • Build supporting data services and applications to orchestrate and monitor our data systems
  • Some technology you will use:
  • Cloud platform - GCP
  • Programming languages - Java, Python, and Kotlin
  • Data warehouse & databases - BigQuery, Postgres, Scylla/Cassandra
  • Distributed processing frameworks - Dataflow (Apache Beam) and Apache Spark
  • Orchestration - Airflow

Our take

Consumer financial data is notoriously inaccurate and many data brokers depend on census data, surveys, and zip codes, which are infrequently updated and can lead to false generalisations. This dependency on inaccurate information leads to costly financial mistakes for businesses.

With a focus on the affluent, Windfall delivers a precise net worth figure for individual households which is updated on a weekly basis. The platform collates accurate, up-to-date information from public and private domain records through partnerships with data vendors. It syncs with commonly used tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Shopify to power data-driven outreach to customers. Windfall's customer base includes hundreds of non-profits as well as businesses across a wide range of industries looking to better target their own sales and marketing efforts.

Having raised significant funding in 2021, Windfall has gone on to enjoy 100% year-on-year growth. In the immediate future it intends to double down on its success by expanding its sales and marketing reach and by further developing its product, including its application to give go-to-market teams direct access to its platform.

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Insights

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Mar 2021

$21m

SERIES A

Aug 2019

$9m

SEED

Total funding: $30m

Company benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • Retirement benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Long-term disability and life
  • Paid time off
  • Paid sick and volunteer days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Floating holidays
  • Stock options
  • Fully-stocked kitchen
  • Pet-friendly office
  • Remote-enabled

Company values

  • Be an excellent communicator
  • Operate with transparency
  • Provide leverage not optimization
  • Make a difference every day
  • Act with integrity and trust

Company HQ

Jackson Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Started his career in investment banking and growth equity, before switching to product management after completing an MBA at Haas School of Business.

Spent 9+ years at Sun Microsystems and Guidewire in various software engineering roles, before moving to a Director of Engineering role at Radius Intelligence, a Big Data company.

Studied Economics, Spanish, Markets & Management at Duke University. Background in investment and advisory services banking. Previously Head of Business Operations at Radius Intelligence for 1 year.

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