Senior Data Engineer

4 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Kami Full time

About Kami

Kami is not only an award-winning Edtech company based in Auckland, New Zealand, but a thriving organisation filled to the brim with talented, creative, and passionate people It’s hard not to love what you do when our leading digital classroom platform offers meaningful solutions to over 40 million users worldwide, empowering students and supporting teachers

You’ll be joining at a pretty magical time. Kami’s user base is growing by the day. With a fast-growing team based across New Zealand, the USA, UK, South Africa, and Brazil, we couldn’t be prouder of the accomplishments and milestones we’ve achieved to date. Now, this is your chance to join our team and become an integral member of Kami’s growth, while shaping your own future, and having fun doing it

The opportunity

The data team at Kami is in an exciting phase. Our company has been growing rapidly, extending an already high demand from our customers and colleagues for timely and high-quality data insights. We’re scaling up our data infrastructure significantly to keep up, and we’re looking for data engineers to join our team and support Kami’s ambitious goals.

We’re building up major new parts of our data stack, including new transformations and data models, and your contributions to these will have a lasting impact. They’ll underpin the work of current and future team members in delivering insights for both internal stakeholders and the millions of passionate educators we count among our customers. Teachers already love our core product, and we believe data can open even more possibilities for their teaching practice You’ll play a major role in a growing team as we take on this exciting challenge.

Because our team supports both customers around the world and other teams within Kami, you’ll get to work with a diverse range of people. We take pride in working quickly to service requests and in building systems that enable this. Like the teachers and students we support, we’re always learning, so you’ll always have support to grow and develop professionally, and the expertise you bring will contribute towards your colleagues’ journeys too.

What you’ll do
- Lead projects developing and maintaining data infrastructure, including data warehouses, pipelines, transformations and integrations
- Lead projects designing and implementing data models to be building blocks that enable educational and business insights
- Develop bespoke internal tools to provide access to data-based insights for colleagues and customers
- Coach and mentor junior team members to develop their skill and instincts in data engineering
- Provide technical leadership in the team to advance best practices in data engineering
- Work closely with software engineers to understand and communicate requirements for usage data collection in our product
- Work closely with data analysts in the team to understand requirements, propose designs and develop solutions to enable their work
- Work closely with our sales, marketing and product teams to understand customer and business needs

What you’ll bring
- Track record successfully rolling out significant data engineering projects
- Excellent (backend) software practice, including with source control and unit testing
- Sound instinct for core principles of algorithms and data processing
- Strong knowledge of practices in databases and data modelling
- Eagerness to learn new languages, frameworks and technologies
- Intellectual curiosity, humility and global-mindedness: we work with all kinds of educators and students from all over the world
- Positive, can-do, eager-to-help attitude
- Experience in other data and/or software roles is also advantageous
- Experience or interest in education, sales and/or business analysis is a bonus

Our tech stack

What you’ll get out of it
- Working for a people-first employer who will support your growth
- Flexible working
- Lots of fun challenges of different sizes and natures
- The opportunity to grow a young team at a one-of-a-kind company
- The satisfaction of knowing you’re not only helping modern-day superheroes, a.k.a. teachers, but also helping them shape the minds of future generations all across the globe

Kami is an equal opportunity workplace, and we would like to hear from all qualified applicants. If you have a disability or any special needs that we might need to accommodate, please let us know.

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