Senior Data Engineer - Data and Intelligence Solution
Top Benefits
About the role
About Achievers
The Achievers Employee Experience Platform™ is more than a thank you program. Our recognition platform inspires employees to recognize everyone, everyday, and everywhere – driving results that matter. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform empowers employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action here. Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change can create extraordinary outcomes.
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.
The opportunity:
Are you a passionate Data Engineer with expertise in building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines? Do you thrive in a cloud environment and enjoy tackling complex data challenges? If so, we want you on our team!
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will leverage your past experiences and deep understanding of data warehousing and data lake concepts to help shape and execute Achievers’s roadmap technologies to design, develop, and maintain our data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will collaborate closely with Data Architects and Data Scientists to translate business needs into robust and scalable data solutions.
What you'll do:
- Design, develop, and implement scalable and reliable data pipelines using Dataflow, Airflow, and Apache Beam on GCP.
- Work with Data Architects to define data requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code using Python, PHP, and Go.
- Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to troubleshoot data pipelines and ensure data quality.
- Automate data pipeline deployment and monitoring processes.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in the big data landscape.
- Document data pipelines and code for maintainability.
- Design and develop data models optimized for performance/scale in our cloud data warehouse.
- Identify and fill gaps in the team and create the processes necessary for the team's success.
What we're looking for:
- 3-5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on data infrastructure.
- Proven experience in designing and developing data pipelines on cloud platforms (preferably GCP).
- Strong expertise in software development best practices (clean code, version control, testing).
- In-depth knowledge of distributed processing and orchestration frameworks like Apache Beam and Apache Airflow.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python, PHP, and Go.
- Proven experience in dimensional data modeling and familiar with normalization and denormalization.
- You're comfortable with the building blocks of modern back-end systems, such as horizontally scalable data infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and beyond and can clearly articulate the pros/cons of different approaches, while also providing a recommended solution based on the current context.
- You have familiarity with databases and analytics technologies in the industry, including Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL and Relational Databases.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Mentor developers in the team to build a high performant independent domain team
Bonus Points:
- Experience with data security and compliance best practices.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform).
Why you’ll love working at Achievers:
✨ We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.
✨ We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
✨ We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.
✨ We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
✨ We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
✨ We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
\uD83D\uDCB0 Competitive Pay
\uD83D\uDC76\uD83C\uDFFC Parental Leave Top-up
\uD83E\uDE7A Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
\uD83D\uDE4C\uD83C\uDFFC RRSP Matching
\uD83C\uDFD6️ Flexible Vacation
\uD83E\uDD1D\uD83C\uDFFD Employee and Family Assistance Program
\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDCBB Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
\uD83C\uDF93 Internal Mentorship Program
\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFC Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto
✨ Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
\uD83D\uDCC8 Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
Achievers does not use AI to make hiring decisions. When you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We believe in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we keep it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.
About Achievers
Great culture is the ultimate driver of organizational success. At Achievers, we build great cultures through frequent, meaningful recognition. As an industry leading employee recognition and reward software company, we engage employees with a world-class rewards marketplace, regular feedback, and digital connection tools. Achievers' easy-to-use web and mobile platform allow employees to share social and points-based recognitions and redeem points earned on a global marketplace.
Building great cultures isn’t just how we work, it’s who we are.
Follow us Engage Blog: http://achievers.com/blog X (Twitter): https://x.com/achievers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/achieverscommunity YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AchieversVideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/achievershq
Senior Data Engineer - Data and Intelligence Solution
Top Benefits
About the role
About Achievers
The Achievers Employee Experience Platform™ is more than a thank you program. Our recognition platform inspires employees to recognize everyone, everyday, and everywhere – driving results that matter. With almost 4 million global users, the Employee Experience Platform empowers employees in over 170 countries. Visit us at www.achievers.com to learn more and check out our platform in action here. Join our team of A-players who bring passion to our purpose and believe that meaningful change can create extraordinary outcomes.
Our commitment to you:
At Achievers, we hire you for you because we value the unique perspective and individuality that each person brings to our team. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace where you belong, and your contributions are celebrated. Together, we achieve more by combining our unique strengths, fostering collaboration, and inspiring each other to reach new heights.
The opportunity:
Are you a passionate Data Engineer with expertise in building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines? Do you thrive in a cloud environment and enjoy tackling complex data challenges? If so, we want you on our team!
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will leverage your past experiences and deep understanding of data warehousing and data lake concepts to help shape and execute Achievers’s roadmap technologies to design, develop, and maintain our data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will collaborate closely with Data Architects and Data Scientists to translate business needs into robust and scalable data solutions.
What you'll do:
- Design, develop, and implement scalable and reliable data pipelines using Dataflow, Airflow, and Apache Beam on GCP.
- Work with Data Architects to define data requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code using Python, PHP, and Go.
- Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to troubleshoot data pipelines and ensure data quality.
- Automate data pipeline deployment and monitoring processes.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in the big data landscape.
- Document data pipelines and code for maintainability.
- Design and develop data models optimized for performance/scale in our cloud data warehouse.
- Identify and fill gaps in the team and create the processes necessary for the team's success.
What we're looking for:
- 3-5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on data infrastructure.
- Proven experience in designing and developing data pipelines on cloud platforms (preferably GCP).
- Strong expertise in software development best practices (clean code, version control, testing).
- In-depth knowledge of distributed processing and orchestration frameworks like Apache Beam and Apache Airflow.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python, PHP, and Go.
- Proven experience in dimensional data modeling and familiar with normalization and denormalization.
- You're comfortable with the building blocks of modern back-end systems, such as horizontally scalable data infrastructure, event-driven architecture, and beyond and can clearly articulate the pros/cons of different approaches, while also providing a recommended solution based on the current context.
- You have familiarity with databases and analytics technologies in the industry, including Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL and Relational Databases.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Mentor developers in the team to build a high performant independent domain team
Bonus Points:
- Experience with data security and compliance best practices.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform).
Why you’ll love working at Achievers:
✨ We are passionate about disruptive technology that’s rooted in science, research and data.
✨ We understand the value of employee success in the workplace and have been recognized in numerous publications for our contributions to HR, for technical excellence, and for our outstanding workplace culture!
✨ We foster an environment of connection, security, and community. You’ll feel at home, without reservation.
✨ We believe in moving quickly, failing fast, and adapting to change.
✨ We enjoy coming to work every day because we believe in our product and love our culture.
✨ We’re committed to achieving excellence in everything we do.
Benefits & Perks for permanent full time employees:
\uD83D\uDCB0 Competitive Pay
\uD83D\uDC76\uD83C\uDFFC Parental Leave Top-up
\uD83E\uDE7A Health Benefits and Life Insurance Coverage Upon Your First Day
\uD83D\uDE4C\uD83C\uDFFC RRSP Matching
\uD83C\uDFD6️ Flexible Vacation
\uD83E\uDD1D\uD83C\uDFFD Employee and Family Assistance Program
\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDCBB Full access to the LinkedIn Learning Library
\uD83C\uDF93 Internal Mentorship Program
\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFC Employee-Led Employee Resource Groups
\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 A beautiful office space located in Liberty Village, Toronto
✨ Participation in our Points-based Employee Recognition Program
\uD83D\uDCC8 Opportunities for professional development and career growth
Our work environment:
Achievers is a hybrid-first company located at 99 Atlantic Ave in Liberty Village, Toronto. Our hybrid work experience is designed to cultivate an engaging employee experience, where pioneering research intersects with cutting-edge technology. We strongly believe that collocating teams increases the chance to innovate together, foster passive learning, create spontaneous connections, and promote better communication.
Achievers does not offer employment to prospects without first ensuring that qualified candidates speak directly with the hiring manager and a member of our HR team. All qualification will be done face-to-face, whether that is in person or over Zoom. Achievers does not send out offers of employment without meeting candidates and does not offer employment via text. If you are requested for any personal information via text and/or without having met a member of our hiring team in person, please disregard.
Our employees are a diverse and inclusive team of passionate, hardworking individuals. Achievers is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an environment where our employees can do the best work of their lives. We encourage all qualified candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply to join our A-Player family.
Achievers is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations for your interview, such as assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility, or alternative formats of materials, please let us know. We are happy to make necessary arrangements to support your needs.
Achievers does not use AI to make hiring decisions. When you apply to work with us, a real person reads your application—every time. We believe in thoughtful, human-centred hiring, and we think your experience, personality, and potential can’t be judged by an algorithm. That’s why we keep it personal and take the time to get to know each qualified candidate.
About Achievers
Great culture is the ultimate driver of organizational success. At Achievers, we build great cultures through frequent, meaningful recognition. As an industry leading employee recognition and reward software company, we engage employees with a world-class rewards marketplace, regular feedback, and digital connection tools. Achievers' easy-to-use web and mobile platform allow employees to share social and points-based recognitions and redeem points earned on a global marketplace.
Building great cultures isn’t just how we work, it’s who we are.
Follow us Engage Blog: http://achievers.com/blog X (Twitter): https://x.com/achievers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/achieverscommunity YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AchieversVideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/achievershq