Founding Data Engineer, Pricing and Comps

About the role

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the founding data engineer on a marketplace team, you will build the data pipelines and pricing systems that turn inconsistent sold-listing data into reliable comparable sales and estimates. Your work will help ensure users and stakeholders can understand both the price and its confidence.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and own scheduled ingestion pipelines for sold-listing data from multiple marketplaces and external sources.

- Design entity resolution systems that match inconsistent listing text and images to canonical items.

- Develop valuation logic that weighs comparable sales by recency, condition, and the number of available comps.

- Monitor data quality to identify drift, fraud, stale comps, and other integrity issues before they affect users.

- Partner with computer vision colleagues to define item matching across sources with differing levels of detail.

- Make build-versus-buy decisions about data sources, licensing, and third-party pricing feeds.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- At least 5 years of data engineering experience, including building and owning large-scale production ETL and data pipelines.

- Experience working with messy, adversarial data in marketplace, pricing, fraud, or similarly noisy domains.

- Strong SQL skills and experience with modern data tools such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, and Spark or similar technologies.

- Experience with statistical estimation or pricing models, including basic regression-based comparable-sales logic.

- Experience designing entity resolution or record-linkage systems at scale, and production monitoring for data quality, drift, or anomalies.

- Experience processing data from multiple external sources, making technical build-versus-buy decisions, and communicating pricing confidence and uncertainty to non-technical stakeholders.

- Pricing intelligence, third-party data licensing, or early-stage startup experience is a plus.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Annual base salary: $160,000 to $220,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

Hybrid, New York, New York, United States.

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