Senior Data Engineer
South Jordan, UT (Hybrid, in office one day per week, Monday or Wednesday)
About Us
Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, efficient software for accounting firms. We are looking to revolutionize the accounting space with modern, user-friendly software for a neglected industry.
Our goal is to help our clients unlock the firm they’ve always wanted with our Practice Management Suite. We place strong emphasis on delighting our customers, spotting and solving problems, and being good people along the way.
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The Opportunity
We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer with a profound commitment to ensuring that our data pipelines run seamlessly and passion for providing highly usable data to our customers. If you’re someone who is eager to work with multiple databases and technologies and obsessed with delivering a performant and understandable reporting database, you’re just the person we’re looking for! Our Senior Database Engineer will be key to our near real time reporting efforts, working alongside developers, product managers, QA engineers, and internal stakeholders to define our database pipelines and empower our platform's capability and reliability. We pride ourselves on agile practices, and you’ll be integral to making incremental improvements to our reporting infrastructure to enable both internal teams and our customers to make decisions that have impact.
What You'll Do:
- Oversee the maintenance of database pipelines to ensure optimal performance, security, and reliability, and accuracy of data.
- Regularly monitor data pipeline and dynamic/static query health, identifying bottlenecks and data leaks, and recommending actionable solutions.
- Refine and refactor our reporting database structures to align with best practices and enable reporting and analytics that make a difference.
- Advise on and implement modern reporting database best practices to elevate our platform's reliability and efficiency.
- Collaborate with teams to write and optimize complex data pipelines/data definitions.
- Spearhead initiatives to create a unified data model to all cross-domain analysis and reporting.
- Provide mentoring and training to team members on data pipelines, data models, and report creation (slicing, filtering, etc., not visualization)
- Participate in interviews of candidates to help us maintain a team of the best talent in the industry.
- Develop and communicate reporting “best practices” to engineering and implementation teams.
Your Skills Include:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience building data pipelines and data models for a reporting database.
- 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL.
- Comprehensive understanding of the process of transferring and transforming data from entry systems to reporting systems.
- Mastery of reporting database/OLAP database design theory
- Proven experience in ensuring accuracy and completeness of reporting data in a low latency reporting environment
- Excellent communication skills, fostering collaboration and understanding across teams, while showing mutual respect for others’ opinions.
- A relentless passion for ensuring data integrity and accessibility, combined with a drive to build innovative, scalable solutions that have a genuine impact on customers.
- Experience leveraging dynamic reporting solutions to generate reports from a structured database
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with warehousing techniques, enabling better analytics and reporting functionalities, especially Redshift, Databricks, and/or Snowflake.
- Proficiency with various programming languages (Python and/or Java are a plus).
- Experience with managed cloud database infrastructure (RDS/Redshift/Databricks preferred).
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Why You Want to Work Here:
🌴 Flexible Paid Time Off - that you’re actually encouraged to use plus 10 company holidays!
❤️🩹 Health Benefits - including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA Match. Canopy covers Medical premiums at 100% for Employees only.
💰 401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.
🧠 Mental Health - all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
👶 Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave - so you’re able to care for your little ones.
➕ Supplemental Benefits - including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability coverage.
🌟 Motivosity - our peer-to-peer recognition program to help our employees recognize the amazing work being done by other Canopians!
🥳 Company Events - including monthly company-wide meetings, summer parties, and more.
💡 DEIB Committee - to plan initiatives around continuing education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more.
☕ Fully-stocked kitchen - Keto? Vegan? Flexitarian? Mandalorian? We’ve got you covered.
Our Values:
We approach our work every day with a few things in mind:
🔑 Own - we own this place! We focus on outcomes, holding ourselves & each other accountable.
🏆 Win - we win by delighting our customers with the very best products and services.
👍 Do Good - we work hard to be good people!
💡 Embrace Curiosity & Candor - we approach everything with curiosity & we understand that candor is kindness and give the gift of feedback.
To learn more about us & our values, click here.
Interviewing @ Canopy:
We know application processes can be a little stressful. Here’s are the stages of a typical interview process:
- Once your application is received, we will review it and get back to you if we feel like it’s a mutual fit!
- 20 minute phone call with the People Team
- 60 minute video technical interview with the Hiring Manager
- Note: you will be writing SQL in real time with the Manager
- 1-3 rounds of interviews with the Engineering Team.
Interview processes can vary depending on the role. The People Team will give you a role specific overview of the process during your first phone call.
Remember: This is your interview too! We know candidates are evaluating us just as much as we are them. We encourage you to bring questions to each of your interviews—our hiring teams will always make sure to save time for questions at the end!
Canopy is an equal opportunity employer. Canopy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.