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Overview

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When you join the Fountain team, you become part of the leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management. Fountain's automated, customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience for workers, while ensuring organizations can scale and manage their frontline talent.

We've helped hundreds of companies like UPS, CLEAR, Stitch Fix, Go
Puff, Fetch, and sweetgreen to hire, onboard, and manage over 14 million workers in more than 75 countries. In 2022, we closed $185M in our Series C, led by Soft
Bank and B Capital. Join our growing team of highly collaborative, ambitious, and
- thinking Fountaineers as we empower our hundreds of customers and millions of frontline workers around the world.

Let's elevate frontline work together.

About The Team

Fountain is the leading hiring platform for
- volume frontline workforces. As we scale into a
- product,
- focused company, data is at the heart of our strategy. Our data infrastructure powers embedded analytics for our customers, internal BI for our teams, and agentic analytics experiences in our products. We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build and evolve the data platforms and pipelines that make this possible.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes to move data from Postgres and Mongo
  DB into our Iceberg data lake on S3 and Click
  House Cloud via change data capture (CDC) using Debezium or Click
  Pipes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to orchestrate transformations using Dagster, including dbt runs, custom Python ETLs, and scheduled jobs.
• Develop and maintain dbt models across multiple warehouses (Click
  House, Big
  Query, Snowflake, Redshift) to power embedded analytics, internal analytics, and
  - facing integrations.
• Work with
  - functional teams to gather data requirements, test transformations, and deliver
  - quality datasets for analytics and product features.
• Assist in migrating from Fivetran to a Kafka-based streaming architecture, including configuring Kafka and Debezium connectors.
• Participate in implementing data retention, GDPR compliance, anonymization, and backup workflows across our data lake and warehouse layers.
• Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot issues, and optimize query performance in Click
  House, Snowflake, Big
  Query, and Redshift.
• Contribute to
  -
  - code practices using Terraform (or similar tools) to standardize deployments and manage environments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

What You Should Bring

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, ETL, or similar roles.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience using dbt and an orchestration framework such as Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect.
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres/Aurora) and No
  SQL databases (Mongo
  DB).
• Familiarity with data lakes and data warehouse technologies such as Iceberg, Click
  House, Big
  Query, Snowflake, and Redshift.
• Exposure to streaming and CDC technologies like Kafka, Debezium, and change data capture pipelines.
• Understanding of data modeling, incremental design, and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and storage services (S3, GCS, Azure Storage).
• Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform or similar
  -
  - code tooling.
• Experience with version control and collaboration using Git.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• A proactive, curious attitude with a desire to learn and grow in a
  - paced environment.

Additional Information

Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment. We employ a diverse team all over the world. Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose. We also understand the importance of
- person connections and hold
- person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward.

The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan. Some Fountain-wide perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements. Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.

Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.

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