Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cartwheel is an early-stage company building a school-centered mental health program for children and students. The Staff Data Engineer will provide technical leadership, design data architecture, deliver scalable data systems, improve engineering practices and data quality, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead and collaborate on technical design and architecture decisions within your team's domain
- Drive technical decision-making by evaluating trade-offs, considering long-term maintainability, and communicating recommendations clearly to stakeholders
- Break down complex, high-level product and technical goals into actionable, well-scoped work
- Contribute to technical standards and architectural patterns that will scale with the organization's growth
- Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code across systems
- Own and deliver large projects end-to-end, from initial planning through production deployment and monitoring
- Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback that elevates code quality and knowledge sharing across the team
- Help establish and continuously improve data engineering best practices, development tooling, and team processes
- Champion data quality by implementing testing strategies, monitoring solutions, and governance practices that ensure system reliability
- Contribute to technical debt management by identifying areas for improvement and proposing pragmatic solutions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability
- Collaborate on defining meaningful metrics to track system health
- Cultivate strong collaborative relationships with product, design, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution
- Communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment between engineering capabilities and business objectives
- Navigate complex dependencies and requirements to deliver solutions that meet both technical and business specifications
Skills
- **8+ years of professional data engineering experience** with a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality, scalable solutions
- **Experience with our technology stack** or eagerness to learn: Google Cloud Platform, dbt, Fivetran
- **Problem solving skills** with strong analytical and debugging skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges systematically
- **Quality focus** with commitment to writing well-tested, maintainable code that follows established patterns and best practices
- **Ownership mentality** with demonstrated ability to take projects from conception to completion with minimal oversight
- **Product-oriented mindset** — you think deeply about how your technical work supports user needs and business outcomes
- **System design** experiencethat showcases an understanding of data modeling, API design, and scalable system patterns
- **Communication** abilities to collaboratively explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
- **Passion for our mission** to tackle the youth mental health crisis and improve outcomes for students and families
- Healthcare, mental health, or education technology experience with understanding of regulatory requirements and user sensitivity
- Early-stage startup experience with ability to work effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments
- Technical mentorship experience with a track record of helping other engineers grow their skills
- Experience with substantial migrations. You'll help lead migration of our data orchestration tooling from Dataform to dbt
Benefits
- Mission-oriented and inclusive colleagues who will go to bat for you
- Competitive equity package
- Generous PPO medical, vision, and dental/ortho coverage
- Life Insurance
- Generous paid time off, including company closure from Christmas-New Years (12/25-1/1)
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- 401K with employer match
- Meaningful equity ownership stake in Cartwheel
- Flexible and remote role with regular in-person retreats
- Annual learning stipend
- Laptop
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