Sr. Software Engineer - Data Platform and API Development

Company: Jupiter Intelligence
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: January 14, 2023

Job Description:

About Us
Jupiter is the global market leader in analytics for resilience planning and enterprise climate risk management. We are led by pioneers in data, climate, and earth and ocean sciences, as well as technology, risk management, company building, and public policy. Our climate risk modeling solutions save lives and mitigate potentially catastrophic impacts inflicted by hurricanes, floods, heat waves, wildfires, drought, and other extreme weather events on homes, businesses, infrastructure, food and water supplies, and entire economies. Jupiter is also committed to the world community. Through our Jupiter Promise initiative we provide services to under-resourced countries and communities to promote sound decision making while including the potential impacts of climate change. Employees are encouraged to provide their expertise to various programs under the Jupiter Promise initiative. Jupiter is bringing diversity to prepare a diverse planet for our changing climate. Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth's economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change. The world is a diverse place; a diverse workforce in an inclusive environment is essential to meet our goals. We go forward together.This position is in a high performance engineering organization created to meet the global demand for high resolution climate predictions to protect and develop assets, and to manage risk in operations.. The mission of the engineering team is to build a modern, scalable data warehouse, API and a customer facing web application to drive customer enablement and self-service, and being a part of the team that delivers this pivotal set of capabilities for the company is exciting and an opportunity for personal growth for us all on the team; we look forward to having you join us in our journey.
This role is responsible for delivering services using the Data Foundation of Snowflake and the AWS ecosystem for Jupiter's flagship product, ClimateScore Global. You will be designing the delivery mechanisms for critical components of the ClimateScore Intelligence Platform that help Jupiter enable the Data Foundation, and consumption mechanisms - either directly via Customer facing API or producing internal APIs that will be consumed by our SaaS Web based Application.
The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and agile environment that ships quality products.What You Will Do:

• Develop technical architecture and code to scale data integration and warehousing workloads, working closely with the Engineering and CloudOps team
• Build, operationalize, maintain, and support data pipelines
• Apply Data Engineering best practices including Data modeling, backend development using SQL on Snowflake to deliver Data API
• Develop and maintain automated data quality validation tools and code
• Help evolve our Data Foundation maturity by identifying and adding new methods for data classification, cataloging and storage
• Produce consumable documentation around our products and their design and implementation
• Constantly stay on top of latest trends in large scale data analysis and integration solutionsWhat You will Need:
  • Excellent understanding of large-scale data engineering and integration patterns, platforms and tools
  • Must have - Hands on with Snowflake ( nice to have - experience with unstructured data)
  • Deep experience building very large-scale Enterprise ready Data Warehouse
  • Hands on with AWS computing, data storage, and developing efficient solutions
  • Strong experience with Python, SQL, PL/SQL
  • API Design best practices
  • Test-driven development experience
  • Familiarity with API development and documentation tools including Postman and Swagger
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to translate high-level, potentially ambiguous requirements into actionable implementation
  • Excellent communications skills and experience working in a remote environment
  • Experience with Spark, Presto, Hadoop ecosystem and orchestration tools like Prefect/Airflow is a big plusEducation & Experience We are Looking For:
    • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in computer science, data science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
    • 5-8 years of experience in computer science or software engineering, ideally with roles requiring API development, Data Engineering
    • Experience with agile software development processesPlease note this position can choose to work in office or hybrid from one of our office locations in San Mateo, Boulder or NYC or can work remotely from any of the following states: CA, CO, FL, IN, IL, KS, MA, MO, MN, NC, NJ, NY, PA, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY
      At Jupiter we value transparency and have a compensation plan where your full time salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Base Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, In addition to your salary, Jupiter Intelligence offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.
      For this role you can expect salary to range as follows: $125,000-$190,000When we say Jupiter Intelligence is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are not just adding a legal addendum. Of course, we do not discriminate:
      Jupiter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
      In fact, we celebrate our differences as our strength and actively work to build an inclusive environment for all. If we can do anything to improve your application and interview process, please let us know!
      Please also note: Successful candidates must be authorized to work in the US

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