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? Do you have experience or interested in working with open-source platforms like Airflow, Spark or Kafka? At Namely, we're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to help build and optimize the foundational architecture of our product's data. As a Senior 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.

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

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 streaming 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 data into the data warehouse using cutting-edge technologies
• Build processes for topnotch performance, reliability, accuracy

Desired Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations Research, or related field required
• 5+ years of experience building data pipelines
• Fluency in one or more server-side programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Scala, Go)
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Flink)
• Familiarity with Looker a plus

Nice to Have's:

• Interest or familiarity with Machine Learning

About Namely

Namely was founded in 2012 to create an HR platform as intuitive as social media, but powerful enough to support the complexity of today’s workforce. Our belief is that great companies are built on a great employee experience, which is why we created the first HR platform employees love to use. In fact, unlike most traditional HR software, 78% of our clients’ employees log in to Namely at least once per month! Namely is backed by some amazing VCs including Sequoia, and serves companies in just about every industry and state nationwide. We love mid-sized companies because they’re mission-driven, client-obsessed, and care deeply about their employees... just like us. We believe in giving you the tools you need to do the best work of your career, and we’re just getting started.

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