What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Data Engineer position at Techstars?
Location: Denver, Colorado - hybrid
Associate Data Engineer
As an Associate Data Engineer at Techstars you will be part of a high performing team building innovative software solutions for entrepreneurs worldwide. In this role, you will build backend streaming data pipelines, integrations with third party SaaS applications, complex analytics features and app facing platform data APIs. You will take part in architecture and solution design and help optimize solution performance and reliability. As a result, you will help Techstars serve founders, entrepreneurs, and startup communities better than ever before.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work with engineers to implement and maintain data models and pipelines
- Build and deploy high quality data analytics, integrations, and API solutions
- Ensure that all data solutions are secure, performant, reliable, observable, and testable
- Contribute in a team environment with a collaborative, open-minded attitude
- Continuously improve the quality of the products and solutions delivered
- Create and update technical documentation for data systems and processes
- Monitor pipelines and ETL processes to ensure data accuracy and completeness
- Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues in a timely manner
Qualifications and Skills:
- A passion for building data solutions, and an appreciation for dev/ops
- Experience working with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Data engineering experience with ETL, streaming, data pipelines, cleansing and mastery
- Experience with programming and query languages (ie. SQL, Python)
- Familiarity working with relational database systems (ie. Postgres)
- Capable of navigating and using command-line interfaces
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, a desire to learn
- Ability to improvise, adapt, and work to deliver on commitments and address issues
- Experience with financial/investment data is a plus
- Experience developing with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.) preferred
Compensation: $65,000 - $75,000 with 10% bonus
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About Techstars
Techstars is the most active pre-seed investor in the world having invested through its accelerators in more than 3,700 companies. Founded in 2006, Techstars believes that entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone and great ideas can come from anywhere. Now we are on a mission to invest in an unprecedented number of startups per year enabling more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. www.techstars.com
Techstars is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental handicaps or disabilities, marital status, Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity nor any other basis prohibited by law.
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