Data Engineer

About the role

Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users! This is a unique opportunity to work at Haystack News, one of the fastest-growing TV startups in the world. We are already preloaded on 37% of all TVs shipped in the US!

Be part of a Silicon Valley startup and work directly with the founding team. Jumpstart your career by working with Stanford & Carnegie Mellon alumni and faculty who have already been part of other successful startups in Silicon Valley.

You should join us if you're hungry to learn how Silicon Valley startups thrive, you like to ship quickly and often, love to solve challenging problems, and like working in small teams.

Job functions

- Analyze large data sets to get insights using statistical analysis tools and techniques

- Collaborate with the Marketing, Editorial and Engineering teams on dataset building, querying and dashboard implementations

- Support the data tooling improvement efforts and help increase the company data literacy

- Work with the ML team on feature engineering and A/B testing for model building and improvement

- Design, test and build highly scalable data management and monitoring systems

- Build high-performance algorithms, prototypes and predictive models

Qualifications and requirements

- Strong written and spoken English is a must!

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Economics or related field

- 3+ years experience doing analytics in a professional setting

- Advanced SQL skills, including performance troubleshooting

- Experience with data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)

- Proficient in Python including familiarity with Jupyter notebooks

- Strong Math/Stats background with statistical analysis experience on big data sets

- Strong communication skills, be able to communicate complex concepts effectively.

Conditions

- Travel to team's offsite events

- 100% paid Uber rides to go to the office

- Learn about multiple technologies

See the posting on Haystack News's site