Wander is a growing, fast-paced startup hiring a full-time Data Engineer to help build our data infrastructure. Data is quickly becoming a core part of Wander’s business and will be key in unlocking massive growth and discovering new opportunities. We are looking for someone who is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. As the founding member of this team, you will get to work on every side of the data stack and lay the foundation for the rest of our business to build upon.

If you are passionate about software design, development, travel, smart home tech, and have 3+ years of development experience, please apply today!

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional development experience

• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)

• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, and workload management

• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores

• Strong analytic skills

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes

• Experience with data pipeline & workflow management tools (e.g., Airflow, Fivetran, Census, Hightouch, etc.)

• Experience building BI dashboards (Superset, Cube.js, Tableau, Looker, etc.)

• Experience with data modeling tools like DBT

• Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift)

• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages (Python and Typescript preferred)

• Strong work ethic, self-directed

• Passion for building

• Eye for detail

You will need to be able to build

• Data pipelines for marketing, finance, operations, and other parts of the business

• Business dashboards

• Clean datasets for easy analysis

• Create data tools to help build our product into an industry leader

• Work with tools like Segment to implement event tracking

Tech Stack

Our data stack is in its infancy, so you will play a critical role in helping build out our infrastructure (and team) and deciding what technologies we should use. Currently, we use Segment, Big Query, and Airbyte.

Our app and backend are end-to-end Typescript. With NextJS for our web app and React Native for our mobile apps. Our API is provided by a GraphQL interface and interfaces with a PostgreSQL database via Prisma.

About Wander

Wander is verticalizing the 100b+ short-term rental industry. We own the demand, booking, smart home technology, home management, and the homes themselves, creating an unmatched guest experience.

Our mission is to help people find their happy place. Our vision is to create the infrastructure for people to experience the world.

We are backed by legendary investors and have a team of experienced startup operators. We are a tight-knit team with a strong work ethic with a common goal of building a lasting company.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits covered 100% by Wander

• 401k

• Equity in Wander

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without discrimination because of sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, age, national origin, military status, religion, disability or any other legally protected status.

Location
🌏 Worldwide