Lead Data Engineer
- Figment Networks
Job description
At Figment, our mission is to create an Internet that is truly decentralized where users can freely interact, share, collaborate, and exchange goods and services in a trustless environment. We offer staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for token holders and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technologies. Together, we can build a better Internet.
About this Role
“We are seeking a data engineer to help grow the figment data team.
The candidate should have a track record of delivering solutions in a collaborative team setting and have several years of demonstrated work experience designing, implementing and maintaining data solutions to support both internal and external use cases.
This is a full-time remote position, for candidates in North American time zones (+1/-1). If you enjoy complex data problems, building data platform solutions, and providing real business impact, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects.”
What you will be doing
- Lead a team of data engineers through the full project life cycle: design, implementation, testing, production, enhancing, & maintaining.
- Work with business units to coordinate defining requirements for the data team and project roadmap.
- Provide hands-on guidance, leadership, mentorship and promote the career development of team members.
- Lead regular retrospectives and planning sessions.
- Provide input for the organization's data engineering goals.
- Assess the effectiveness of the overall data platform and technology stack to balance performance with cost and engineering productivity.
- Take part in the data engineering interview process
What you will bring to the team
Examples:
- Significant experience in data and/or software engineering along with project + people management.
- Familiar with modern cloud data platforms and how to build, operate, maintain, and enhance them.
- Results-oriented individual with a high EQ and attention to detail.
- A management style that empowers and helps the team grow in their career goals
- A collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding solutions
What you could bring to the team (optional)
Examples:
- Experience with:
- Our stack (AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, Fivetran, Monte Carlo)
- Our tools (Terraform, GitHub, Jira, Slack, PageDuty)
About Figment
At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. This is Figment’s unique approach: we make it simple to build on the next generation of blockchain technology.
We provide enterprise grade node and staking infrastructure and developer tools while also actively participating in community & governance.
Our mission is to support the wider adoption, growth and long term success of Web 3 based protocols. Our team is composed of curious, authentic, and determined individuals who have a passion for blockchain and hold firm beliefs in the value of a decentralized future.
Figment is a distributed first company. Figment team members have the option to work from home, at flexible schedules. We pride ourselves on a culture of honesty and risk taking in a “non corporate environment.”
We strive to make a true impact in the blockchain space, but we also do not take ourselves too seriously. Most of us would describe ourselves as optimistically skeptical.
Check out our Job Board to view open roles and to find more information on working at Figment. Don’t see what you are looking for? Feel free to email us at contact@figment.io with something out of the ordinary.