Senior Backend Engineer (Data Pipelines / ETL)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Data Pipelines / ETL) to join our growing team of technologists. In this position, you will work in a multidisciplinary team to understand, design and transform disparate data sources into ERP and warehousing systems. 
Day to day, you’ll work within a fast-moving delivery squad comprising product management, engineering and QA who work towards delivering and optimizing features that drive core business value to our clients.
Whitespectre is a product-centric, technology consultancy for both VC funded start-ups and large, established companies across the US and Europe. We’re also a product incubator with our own applications and B2B SaaS platform. As long-term partners to our clients, we’ve played a critical role in their growth – both through the products we co-create and the expertise and processes we bring. Proudly remote first since 2013, we’re a close-knit team of 75, working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and drive real business impact. 
In this role you will:
Analyze, design and build data pipelines for missing data from known sources to a data lake / data warehouse (AWS products)
Transform data into common data models / tables of known structure at both detailed and aggregated levels
Extract and upload data to an ERP (Netsuite) via custom REST endpoints
Create logging and sanity checks to adhere to data validation requirements
The primary technologies you will use include Python, DBT, Meltano, Airflow, and Spark. 
Benefits
Competitive salaries, with payment in USD
Annual Performance & Salary Reviews, with proactive career management
20 Days PTO & 3 Charity Days annually
Funded face-to-face meet ups in Barcelona, as well as, South America and Asia
Assisted Relocation package
Flexible working hours for efficient teaming in a 100% remote environment (proudly remote-first for 10 years!)
Free English classes & educational expenses support
Generous Employee Referral Plan
Team Fitness and Charity Initiatives
Cultural benefits
In addition to the above benefits, we foster an inclusive working environment that provides:
Great company environment – check out Glassdoor
Personalized onboardings
Opportunity to contribute to company-level initiatives
Work with a broad range of best-in-class technologies
Cross-company knowledge groups – improve your expertise, share your learnings and work with different technologies and tools
Regular brown bag learning sessions
An emphasis on Work-life balance
This is the right position for you if want
The challenge of collaborating with business stakeholders and Product Managers to design and advocate for technology solutions while bearing in mind the tradeoffs for business results
The responsibility of designing new processes, and being confident to justify your technology decisions. (Plus debating and recognizing when a colleague has an even better idea!)
The opportunity to go outside your core expertise and strengthen skills with other technologies and learn more
An environment where excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are valued and honed.
A culture where people from different backgrounds interact, collaborate and reach a shared goal
The “check the box” Requirements
5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, with additional software engineering experience as an advantage
Expertise working with SQL to extract, transform, and load data
Demonstrated hands-on experience across Python, DBT, Meltano, Airflow, Spark, Redshift, PostgreSQL (or similar)
Experience with JS/Node is an advantage
Advanced English level, excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience contributing to technical decision-making within a team
Can work full-time with a significant overlap with both CET and PST working hours.
Live outside of the US. Please, no recruitment agencies.
Interested in applying?
Apply by completing the form – and we’ll get back to you.