Senior Data Analytics Engineer

ThriftBooks is the world's largest used book retailer! We believe in a workplace where respect for our employees matters, where promoting from within is how we grow, and where safety comes first in all our decisions and planning. At ThriftBooks, your work will help get inexpensive books into the hands of people who need them instead of going into landfill. We strive to create a friendly work environment with high standards of performance and rewards for excellence. We started out small and remember that encouraging people to do their best is how we expanded to our current scale.

If you want to learn about the intersection of technology, innovation, and good old-fashioned teamwork, we might be a good fit for you. Wherever you start in the company, our hope is that it is a launching point to higher achievement. At ThriftBooks, your success is up to you.

We are growing & looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Team. The primary purpose of this position is to be at the forefront of building and maintaining the data infrastructure that supports key decision-making across the organization. Their mission is to make working with data a delightful experience for data scientists, business and engineering partners, and executives across the organization.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Use dbt to deliver well-defined, transformed, tested, documented, and code-reviewed data sets
• Promote software engineering best practices through thoughtful code review and mentorship of junior team members
• Work to understand and solve business partners’ data-related challenges, understand their analytical needs, and deliver efficient data solutions.
• Proactively anticipate future business needs, incorporating these into your solutions, even when those needs aren’t immediately apparent.
• Build and manage ELT pipelines with off-the-shelf tools like Fivetran and Stitch
• Troubleshoot data anomalies with engineering teams
• Educate and empower your customers to use data in their decision making
• Craft data requirements for the engineering teams
• Manage and optimize Snowflake data warehousing to ensure data quality, availability, performance, and governance
• Keep up to date on data technologies in our stack and in the broader data ecosystem

TRAVEL: This role involves limited travel for collaboration and professional development.

LOCATION: This is a hybrid role with flexibility to work remotely & from our Corporate Office in Tukwila, WA.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 4+ years experience writing performant, scalable SQL models on large data sets
• Proficient in dbt, Snowflake (or similar data warehouse), BI visualization
• Nice to have:
  • Familiarity with data governance and security best practices
  • Experience with data storage technologies outside of our regular stack
  • Software engineering background - C#, React, PowerShell, Python

Other Competencies You Should Posses

• The ability to break large problems into small, testable, deployable solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on finding scalable and effective solutions for business problems
• Excellent communication skills - experience communicating technical topics to non-technical people, translating business needs into technical implementations, and liaising between Business, Engineering, and Analytics
• Curiosity: eagerness to learn the business so that you can help use data to drive impactful decisions across teams
• Proven track record of delighting data consumers

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE:

• Annual 10% bonus incentive
• Competitive compensation package
• Earn Paid Time Off at Accrual Rate of 15-days per year
• Six Paid Holidays per calendar year
• Medical & Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Company paid STD/LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k match program
• Professional development & growth opportunities
• Work with nice, fun people
• FREE BOOKS!

BASE SALARY:

$115,000 -$140,000/yr. This range reflects the good-faith hiring base salary range for this position. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications such as skills, experience, and education/training.

ThriftBooks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. ThriftBooks is unable to provide employment visa sponsorship at this time. All candidates must be willing to authorize a pre-employment background check. All applicants agree to ThriftBooks' Privacy Notice for Employment-Related Personal Data: https://www.thriftbooks.com/s/employment-privacy-notice/ #COR00

• Cover letters appreciated!