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About the Role
We are looking for a Data Engineer Intern to join our growing team for the Summer 2024 Term (May - Aug). In this role, you will have the opportunity to build scalable and highly available data pipelines using modern tech and tools on one of Canada’s fastest-growing startups. As a Data Engineer, you’ll build highly reliable and scalable ELT pipelines for large datasets (we do over 10 million searches/day). You’ll work on data-intensive applications, ensuring high data quality and uptime, and work directly with analysts on a full-stack data team. You’ll have lots of autonomy to create impact while tackling intricate technical problems.
Challenges You'll Solve
- Building and maintaining pipelines that ingest large amounts of data from various sources
- Setting up Reverse-ETL syncs to power operational analytics
- Write various styles of automated tests to ensure operational reliability and data integrity
- Implement & launch high impact A/B tests that will help us acquire users and grow our revenue
Our Tech
- We use a SOA architecture powered by many micro-services, including the bot platform, the NLP engine and the pricing/recommendation engines
- We use a modern data stack of Airflow, Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Hightouch, and more
- We built a proprietary event logging platform which processes terabytes of data weekly
- We have a distributed ELT infrastructure hosted using Kubernetes and AWS
About You
- You have at least 6-18 months of Data Engineering or Software Engineering work experience, preferably with exposure to a dynamic, startup environment
- You learn quickly, regardless of the languages and technologies used
- You have experience building scalable data pipelines and powerful reporting tools
- You thrive on decoding complex problems with logical, well-reasoned solutions
We've got you covered
- Compensation: we pay our Interns top-of-market
- $300 One-time home office set up allowance
- $25/Week UberEats allowance on Fridays
- $300/Term Learning and Development allowance
- $120/ Term Fitness/Wellness allowanceTop Talent: work with the best in the world, including Engineers and Leadership from Google, Facebook, Wish, YouTube, Uber, and more
- Build Something Great: most importantly, build a product used by millions around the world - have ownership, have impact, and do great work
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