Company Background:
Headquartered in Rocklin, California, Quick Quack Car Wash owns and operates over 240 locations in the western United States. Quick Quack takes pride in being regularly recognized as “the Innovative” car wash in the industry. Additionally, Quick Quack has been recognized as an environmentally friendly and sustainable business.
Quick Quack has established a culture of exceptionally talented people in a great work atmosphere, committed to a special set of values:
- Excellence Through Teamwork. The Quick Quack team maintains an environment of trust and respect, where all are held accountable and successes are celebrated. Ideas, issues and expectations are communicated openly. Teams pull together and work through complex topics, and ideas and learnings are regularly shared.
- Operational Strength. All take responsibility for quality and continually seek opportunities for improvement. This includes not only our personal skillsets, but also the code we develop and deploy.
- Every Member is a Leader. While they find strength in teamwork, each Team Member’s individual attitude and actions also influence the success of the company and those they serve. Individual goals are set alongside goals of the company and fellow Team Members assist each other to reach them.
- Experts in our Industry. Team Members grow in their expertise and knowledge about our products and services, as well as industry standards. All Team Members take responsibility to participate in opportunities for technical, personal and professional advancement. We take pride in the amount of vertical integration that our company has achieved through our expertise.
- Commitment to the Customer. Every Team Member is responsible for delivering best-in-class customer experiences. Team Members achieve this through honest, welcoming and helpful communication, and demonstrate pride through maintaining a supportive and professional disposition. Each Team Member is an integral part of Quick Quack. Through individual and collective excellence and commitment, they aim to provide not only their best, but also the very best of the car wash industry.
Summary:
The Data Engineer IV (DE Level 4) works independently on moderately complex problems while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team development through documentation, architectural design, and best practices. This role involves active participation in continuous improvement discussions, reviewing others' work, and providing leadership and coaching to drive engineering excellence across the team.
You will work under a collaborative ownership model where engineers take end-to-end accountability for features while working across domains with specialists to develop comprehensive solutions. You'll be expected to execute assigned tasks and grow into owning complete features, ensuring cross-functional consensus and implementation success.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Meets with data architect and product managers to discuss and plan data projects as a subject matter expert.
- Provides estimations on proposed features and assists with roadmap planning activities.
- Prepares reports on engineering project specifications, activities, or status.
- Conducts feasibility studies for new features, data systems, and platforms to guide the direction of the technical stack used by the team and leads architectural review documents with assistance from more senior engineers
- Works as part of a development team in the design of data flows and datasets and is a subject matter expert on projects as assigned
- Conducts stakeholder requirement gathering and presents for approval to leadership and more senior engineers
- Learns and adheres to team processes, standards, and best practices. Participates in continuous discussions with the team to make improvements
- Handles moderately complex issues and problems and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
- May act as technical lead on projects or initiatives.
- Collaborates across multiple engineering teams in the design of new features and functionality.
- Independently prepare data sets for usage, including building ETL pipelines, testing of pipeline performance, confirming data accuracy, and validation of data quality to ensure stakeholder requirements are met.
- Review and guides more junior engineer work.
- Develops and maintains documentation, creates architectural design diagrams and documents.
- Performs work with a high degree of latitude.
- Possesses expert knowledge of subject matter.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring to fellow and more junior engineers and other team members.
- Provides input to technical strategies for the team in conjunction with business priorities and industry trends.
- Drives team development of engineering best practices and keeps up to date with latest trends.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor's or master's degree and 4+ years of experience, or 6-8 years of experience in data engineering.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Intermediate knowledge of Python.
- Professional work experience with Redshift.
- Professional work experience with Airflow.
- Professional work experience ingesting data from APIs.
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing data pipelines with a solid understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration principles.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
Travel:
- Will have to travel a few times a year for onsite team events and training, up to one business week per trip (less than 10%)
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