Lead Data Engineer

Are you passionate about building solid data foundations? At Better Collective, we’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help us take our data platform to the next level. In this role, you’ll lead the development of our core data infrastructure, making sure data flows smoothly, securely, and reliably across the company.

You’ll work with a strong team of data professionals, collaborating with teams across the business and data domains — Finance, Affiliate, Subscription and more.

Innovation is a big part of our culture, so if you're excited about shaping the future of our data platform and experimenting with new technologies, you’ll feel right at home here.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build and improve data pipelines that move and transform data from different sources

• Design and manage our cloud data infrastructure so it’s secure, scalable, and easy to use

• Work closely with data analysts and business teams to make sure they have the data they need

• Set and improve best practices for version control, testing, and monitoring of our data systems

• Help the team stay up to date with new tools and technologies

• Guide and mentor other data engineers

• Contribute to big-picture planning of our data platform, including support machine learning

• Strong experience with cloud data tools (e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, or similar)

• You’re comfortable writing SQL and Python and have built production ready data pipelines

• You’ve used tools like dbt, Dagster, or similar for data modeling and orchestration

• You understand how to build scalable systems and think about performance and reliability

• You’re structured, hands-on, and like working with others to solve problems

• Experience with machine learning pipelines is a nice bonus, but not required

• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Not sure you meet every single requirement?

That’s okay—your unique experience might be exactly what we’re looking for.

Your colleagues say you

• Break down complex systems into simple, understandable parts

• Take ownership and follow through - especially when things get tricky

• Are both practical and thoughtful when solving technical challenges

• Are someone they can count on for technical advice - and enjoy building with