Data Engineer, Infrastructure

What we do and why we do it

As the leading end-to-end investment platform for single-family rental homes (SFR), our mission is to make real estate investing radically accessible, cost effective, and simple. We successfully merge our passion for helping investors build wealth through real estate with cutting edge technology that transforms the way they do it. 

How it’s going (and growing) 

With a talented team of 600+ Roofsters, our collaborative, can-do culture is what fuels our growth. Early last year we closed on our Series E, raising $240 million, and have offices in California, Texas, and New York as well as many remote opportunities. Our growth includes recent acquisitions of  Great Jones (full-service property management),  Stessa (financial management software) to empower customers with a seamless way to acquire, manage, and track their investment properties on one platform,  RentPrep (tenant screening and placement service for landlords), and  Mynd (property management platform for both Retail and Institutional investors).

About the team

The Data Engineering team is the core of Data, which everything else relies upon. The team is responsible for the development and management of the Enterprise Data Platform, which powers the company and all respective Data functions. The Enterprise Data Platform is crucial for integrating, managing, and providing data across the business. There are multiple sub-disciplines within Data Engineering, each contributing to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of data operations. It is a highly cohesive team consisting of the 4 pods, Data Infrastructure, ML & GenAI Ops, Analytics Engineering & Data Services. 

We architect and build the core data infrastructure to support the entire company, build data ingestions from internal & external applications, support infra for ML & GenAI products and applications, merge various data feeds and combining them into easy to use, valuable data sets to support analytics and design and create scalable and packaged data solutions in the form of various data services.

About the role

We are looking for a talented Data Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure pod in our established Data Engineering team. 

As a Data Engineer on the Data Infrastructure pod, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining data solutions and data pipeline infrastructure supporting broader data-heavy functions within the company, including Reporting, Analytics and Data Science. The Data Engineer collaborates with Software Development and DevOps teams to maintain scalability, reliability and maintainability of the company’s overall technical stack. The Data Engineer also works closely with business and product teams to ensure timeliness and efficiency of data-driven decision making. 

The primary focus of this role is to design, develop and implement clean and structured data for use by analysts and reporting. Responsibilities also include quality documentation and adherence to Data Engineering best practices.

If you thrive in a team environment, are willing to pitch in wherever needed to help the team succeed, are passionate about data and excited about empowering users with data to drive decision making, Roofstock is the place for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Operates in a remote-first environment collaborating with individuals and teams distributed across multiple time zones worldwide

• Works with internal partner teams, and, occasionally, external partners on defining the scope and the requirements for Data Engineering projects

• Designs, develops and implements Data Engineering solutions

• Maintains work performance, transparency, and process compliance through usage of the company’s task tracking tools and communication channels 

• Participates in projects of a broader Engineering and Data teams by acting as SME and as a contributor to business and engineering initiatives

• Works on continuous improvement of Roofstock Data Engineering practices through platform/tools evaluation, documentation, knowledge sharing, etc

Qualifications

• Typically 4+ years of technical experience

• Flexibility in adjusting to technology stack selection. Ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly

• Strong proficiency in data modeling

• SQL fluency, preferably with exposure to multiple dialects 

• Scripting skills relevant to development of data pipelines (strong preference for Python)

• Understanding of QA practices relevant to Data Engineering 

• Familiarity with source control tools and CI/CD

• Understanding of performance tuning across multiple components of the technical stack

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud services.

• Previous experience in a start-up or agile environment.

Technologies we like 

• Bonus points for more extensive experience with Roofstock’s data stack - AWS, Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, DBT and Sigma

Conditions

• You speak English fluently.

• You are an independent engineer (not a part of the agency) and able to work ~40 hours/week Monday-Friday.

• You're committed to being available until noon Pacific time zone (not particularly working - answering in Slack and participating in occasional meetings).

• Camera and microphone are required during the interview, once hired during team meetings/discussions/etc.

• Remote work with a distributed team of engineers located across the Americas and Eurasia

• Weekly wages

Location

Remote, International - Central EU or Americas (non US)

Compensation

The compensation range may be adjusted based on experience and location.

Pay Transparency

Our compensation reflects several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position represents the expected salary for this position. Ultimately, in determining your pay it will be based on several factors including location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience and other job related factors. Roofstock is a total compensation company; the base salary is only part of our total compensation package.

Competitive & Unique Benefits Package:

• Generous PTO Policy

• 13 Paid Holidays

• Volunteer Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• 401k Program

• Wellness and home office/cell phone subsidies

• Robust health, dental, vision insurance, and more

Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity 

Roofstock is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Roofstock, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.