Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform Porch
Seattle, WA

Job Description

At Porch, we are reinventing the way homeowners connect with professionals to get work done on their home. We believe that our vast data stores and infrastructure provide a strategic advantage enabling us to help homeowners find the right pro.

As an engineer in the Data Platform group, you will lead us in finding new ways to turn data into user-facing products by creating systems that empower engineers, analysts, designers, and data scientists to extract insights from our systems. For example, how can we utilize our data to drive funnel analysis across all of our products; how can we use our data to make accurate and automated AB experimentation possible?

You will help architect scalable event-driven data systems that support the development and evolution of our data marts and BI platform. You will work closely with other engineering teams, analysts, data scientists, and business partners to enable accurate reporting and efficient machine learning. You will develop conceptual, logical, and physical models and build data pipelines facilitating the manifestation of application and user data along with reference data within the data warehouse.

What You Will Do

* Build out our software to allow automated analysis of our data -- for example, funnel analysis and AB testing.
* Further development of Porch's Data Platform, from acquisition to delivery, including underlying infrastructure of the databases, data marts, and other related systems.
* Collaborate with data team and engineering leaders to define technology roadmap and architectural improvements to data platform scalability.
* Build high quality software and implementations as an individual contributor.
* Work with analysts to build sustainable data models; enabling efficient and accurate reporting.
* Work with business, analytics and data science teams to design and implement improvements to our reporting framework.
* Become a domain expert within Porch's data stores.

What You Bring

* 6+ years working with data platforms, including acquisition, validation, and preparation of data for analytics purposes.
* Expertise with Java (or other comparable languages), SQL and scripting languages.
* Experience working in a fully virtualized cloud environment including cloud-based IaaS/SaaS/PaaS solutions.
* Strong data warehouse and dimensional modeling expertise (i.e. integrated model, and star/snowflake schema data model)
* Understanding of ETL methodologies and Data Warehousing principles, approaches, technologies, and architectures including the concepts, designs, and usage of data warehouses and data marts.
* Demonstrated results teaming with business and analysts to provide timely and accurate data sources for reporting.
* Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and NoSQL (to name a few)

About Porch

Launched September, 2013, as an online home improvement network connecting homeowners with qualified professionals, Porch has grown into the industry leading partner for the home. With more than 250,000 active professionals across the U.S., Porch partners with large retailers like Walmart, Lowe's, and Pottery Barn to provide home services fulfillment for their customers, as well as direct-to-consumer access to more than 160 different home services offerings through Porch.com. Focused on assisting customers at every stage of the "home journey" - including moving in, installations, assembly, repairs and ongoing maintenance - last year alone, the company facilitated over 2 million home-related projects, generating almost $1 billion in revenue for small business owners and sole proprietors in specialty areas such as plumbing, roofing, electrical work carpentry, and more.