Senior Analytics Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years as an analytics or data engineer. Software engineering experience that's focused on data platforms also counts
- 3+ years of involved experience with Snowflake.This should ideally include experience with performance optimization
- Experience with dimensional modeling. Ideally you would have built two or more dimensional marts
- Strong python, sql and dbt experience
- Familiarity with managing an orchestration platform like dagster or airflow
- Are proficient in SQL and Python
- Are a self-starter that excels at exploring problems and collaborating closely with operations teams to drive growth through data
- Have excellent focus, prioritizing your research and work using an iterative approach (you know when a project is good enough to stop, and you rarely get lost in details)
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will work to make Wave’s data easy, safe, and reliable to use, enabling better products for our customers. Some examples of focus areas are:
- Leading dimensional design to structure Wave’s analytics data in ways that are helpful for human and AI end users. Examples of what you might work on:
- Building out facts, dimensions and One Big Tables (OBTs) as appropriate for a focus area at Wave. This involves working closely with domain partners to understand what’s useful to them and what’s not
- Standardizing metric creation and usage
- Building out ways to make it easy to add context for LLMs to data models
- Managing our extensive snowflake estate with a strong analytical mindset. Examples of what you might work on:
- Finding patterns that are repeated frequently and optimizing them
- Building tools to identify and turn off stale/unused models
- Evaluating the impact of an optimization on costs and performance
- Building tools to improve the analytics development experience. Examples of what you mind work on:
- Creating helpful dbt macros
- CI/CD checks that catch possibly exploding joins
- Reducing the pain of iterating on metric design
- Outside of the focus areas, folk in this role will also
- Be responsible for the design, build and health of all of our ETL pipelines. Part of the role includes being ‘on-duty’. On duty responsibilities require that you have a working understanding of most parts of the stack
- Champion best practice across data
- Be a key partner in the road map of the data platform team
Benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
About Wave Mobile Money
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote D'Ivoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast. Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent.
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Senior Analytics Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years as an analytics or data engineer. Software engineering experience that's focused on data platforms also counts
- 3+ years of involved experience with Snowflake.This should ideally include experience with performance optimization
- Experience with dimensional modeling. Ideally you would have built two or more dimensional marts
- Strong python, sql and dbt experience
- Familiarity with managing an orchestration platform like dagster or airflow
- Are proficient in SQL and Python
- Are a self-starter that excels at exploring problems and collaborating closely with operations teams to drive growth through data
- Have excellent focus, prioritizing your research and work using an iterative approach (you know when a project is good enough to stop, and you rarely get lost in details)
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will work to make Wave’s data easy, safe, and reliable to use, enabling better products for our customers. Some examples of focus areas are:
- Leading dimensional design to structure Wave’s analytics data in ways that are helpful for human and AI end users. Examples of what you might work on:
- Building out facts, dimensions and One Big Tables (OBTs) as appropriate for a focus area at Wave. This involves working closely with domain partners to understand what’s useful to them and what’s not
- Standardizing metric creation and usage
- Building out ways to make it easy to add context for LLMs to data models
- Managing our extensive snowflake estate with a strong analytical mindset. Examples of what you might work on:
- Finding patterns that are repeated frequently and optimizing them
- Building tools to identify and turn off stale/unused models
- Evaluating the impact of an optimization on costs and performance
- Building tools to improve the analytics development experience. Examples of what you mind work on:
- Creating helpful dbt macros
- CI/CD checks that catch possibly exploding joins
- Reducing the pain of iterating on metric design
- Outside of the focus areas, folk in this role will also
- Be responsible for the design, build and health of all of our ETL pipelines. Part of the role includes being ‘on-duty’. On duty responsibilities require that you have a working understanding of most parts of the stack
- Champion best practice across data
- Be a key partner in the road map of the data platform team
Benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
About Wave Mobile Money
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote D'Ivoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast. Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent.