Namely’s mission is to help mid-sized companies build a better workplace. We’re an HR, payroll, and benefits platform that provides the technology, data, and support that HR professionals need and employees love to use. People are at the center of everything we do, and we believe every company and employee deserves a great workplace, supported by innovative HR technology. At Namely, we are problem solvers, self-starters, and obsessed with creating the best experience for our clients.

Do you have a passion for building data architectures that enable smooth and seamless product experiences? Are you an all-around data enthusiast with a knack for ETL? At Namely, we're hiring a Staff Data Engineer to help build and optimize the foundational architecture of our product's data.

We’ve built a strong data engineering team to date, but have a lot of work ahead of us, including:

• Migrating from relational databases to a streaming and big data architecture, including a complete overhaul of our data feeds
• Defining streaming event data feeds required for real-time analytics and reporting
• Leveling up our platform, including enhancing our automation, test coverage, observability, alerting, and performance

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will work with the development team to construct a data streaming platform and data warehouse that serves as the data foundations for the Namely product. 

Help us scale our business to meet the needs of our growing customer base and develop new products on the Namely platform. You'll be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You’ll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive hands-on mentorship and have ample opportunities to grow and accelerate your career!

Responsibilities:

• Build our next generation data warehouse
• Build our event stream platform
• Translate user requirements for reporting and analysis into actionable deliverables
• Enhance automation, operation, and expansion of real-time and batch data environment
• Manage numerous projects in an ever-changing work environment
• Extract, transform, and load complex data into the data warehouse using cutting-edge technologies
• Build processes for topnotch security, performance, reliability, and accuracy
• Provide mentorship to fellow team members

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations Research, or related field required
• 10+ years of experience building data pipelines
• 4+ years of experience building data frameworks for unit testing, data lineage tracking, and automation 
• Fluency in Scala and at least one other server-side programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Go)
• Expert on Apache Spark
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Flink)

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Machine Learning 
• Familiarity with Looker a plus

This position has a salary range of $170,000 - 230,000 per annum. Namely offers employees medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, equity, flexible spending accounts, $50,000 basic life and AD&D, free telehealthcare, paid vacation, holidays and sick leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid family leave, and many other available benefits. This information is provided per the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Base pay information is based on the market location.

Tech Talks and Blogs by Namely Labs Engineers:

• HTTP and JSON for your gRPC services
• Growing up with AWS
• Using .NET Core in Production
• Following an Internal Open Source model of Software Development
• Namely Labs Blog

Namely Company Culture Highlights

• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEOs for Diversity 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2022

Check us out on Comparably: https://www.comparably.com/companies/namely

About Namely

Namely is the first HR, payroll, and benefits platform employees actually love to use. People are at the center of everything we do—from our platform to our staff. Why join us? We believe every company and every employee deserves a great workplace, supported by HR technology they use and love. Most importantly, we believe in giving you the tools you need to do the best work of your career.

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