
Senior Data Engineer: Data Lake
Overview
Constructor is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to work on the Data Lake Team, responsible for developing and maintaining the Constructor Data Platform.
Job Description
Constructor is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in e-commerce, built to explicitly optimize for metrics like revenue, conversion rate, and profit. Our search engine is entirely invented in-house utilizing transformers and generative LLMs, and we use its core and personalization capabilities to power everything from search itself to recommendations to shopping agents. Engineering is by far our largest department, and we’ve built our proprietary engine to be the best on the market, having never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology. We’re passionate about maintaining this and work on the bleeding edge of AI to do so. Out of necessity, our engine is built for extreme scale and powers over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries. It is used by some of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world like Sephora, Under Armour, and Petco. We’re a passionate team who love solving problems and want to make our customers’ and coworkers’ lives better. We value empathy, openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and are excited by metrics that matter. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they do best can lead to great things. Constructor is a U.S. based company that has been in the market since 2019. It was founded by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick who still lead the company today.
Responsibilities
- - Data platform support (PySpark, Databricks, EMR, Luigi, Airflow)
- - Development, optimization and maintenance for data pipelines framework to run 10 000+ of pipelines on a daily basis
- - Data modeling (bronze, silver, gold)
- - Development and maintenance of a Data Quality framework built on top of DBT
- - Development and maintenance of user facing service for the behavioral data ingestion (FastAPI, Docker, AWS ECS)
Required Skills
- - At least 4 years of experience
- - Strong programming skills (ideally in Python)
- - Expertise in big data engineering, web services, and cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
- - Eager to build diverse components and drive the evolution of our platform
Benefits
- - Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
- - Fully remote team - choose where you live
- - Work from home stipend
- - Apple laptops provided for new employees
- - Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
- - Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
- - Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
- - Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate
About the company
Constructor’s AI-powered search and product discovery platform delivers unmatched KPI optimization and fast ROI for enterprise ecommerce brands — while giving customers a personalized, enjoyable shopping experience.
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