Senior Data Engineer - Remote

Quick take: Axios is a growth-stage company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We’re hiring a remote Senior Data Engineer to join our Consumer Insights data team! 

Why it matters: As a Senior Data Engineer, this person will collaborate with other data engineers, scientists, analysts, and product managers to drive forward data initiatives across mission-critical Axios products. The team is responsible for analyzing consumer behavior, preferences, and feedback, to allow Axios to tailor products, services, and marketing strategies effectively.

Go deeper: As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a leadership role in building and delivering solutions to problems in an intelligent and nuanced way. In this role, you will make an impact on Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Architect and build data products and features that provide consumer insights about Axios’ audience
• Hands-on development and execution against the team’s roadmap in collaboration with other data engineers, analysts, scientists, and quality engineers. 
• Technical and architectural decision-making
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and warehouses to support Axios in data-informed decision-making 
• Writing clean, well-documented, and well-tested code primarily in SQL/Python
• Provide technical insights, and feasibility assessments, communicate technical constraints to the team’s Product Manager
• Estimate efforts of technical implementation to aid in planning and sequencing of developmental tasks
• Mentoring less experienced members of the team through pair programming and empathetic code review
• Share knowledge through presenting at data chapter meetings and demoing to team members and stakeholders
• Staying up to date with industry trends and collaborating on best practices

The details: Ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit, be highly collaborative, exhibit a passion for building technology products, and have the following qualifications:

• Experience with or …