Data Engineer

Ibotta is looking for a software-focused
Data Engineer
to join our team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. Accelerating development of our cutting-edge data platform as a leader in the Data Platform Organization, you will work with both engineering and analytics to develop and own stable, scalable, and approachable data platforms. We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a passion for enabling data mesh concepts while heavily leveraging AWS cloud and Databricks Lakehouse technologies. The data engineering team is central to delivering and maintaining our modern data, analytics, and decisioning platforms across Ibotta.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to enable approachable and self-service data movement and access patterns
• Provide guidance and assistance to stakeholders with building complex datasets that meet the business needs.
• Identify, design, and implement process improvements including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater reliability and performance.
• Work as a member of the Data Engineering squad to deliver product features and resolve data related technical issues.
• Work with information security to keep our data secure.
• Support the engineering of distributed systems, frameworks, and design patterns enabling efficient usage of Ibotta's Data Lake
• Use Scala or Python to utilize Spark to collect and manage data at scale
• Help build and manage automation tools, data pipelines that meets Data Governance and Data Security Standards
• Evangelize Data Engineering and supporting capabilities with Platform and Analytics teams.
• Perform incident resolution and root cause analysis of critical outages. Implement solutions to systematic failures. Provide on-call support, including after-hours on a rotational basis.
• Assist with documentation of the environments and data tooling that support our products.
• Embrace and uphold Ibotta's Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in software development, preferably with Scala and Python. Preferred experience building/implementing data pipelines using Databricks
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required
• Experience being a key critical contributor participating in medium and large data projects from ideation to implementation
• Preferred experience with event-driven architecture design patterns and practices
• Experience in database design principles supported by strong SQL abilities
• Experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management

• Experience with the following a strong plus:

• AWS Cloud Services; EC2, S3

• Experience with Scala and Spark
• Experience with Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi
• Message Brokers such as Kafka or Kinesis
• ETL tools and processes (Airflow or other similar tools)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc

• Experience building APIs and libraries

• Agile (Kanban or Scrum) development experience

About Ibotta ("I bought a...")
Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned over $1.8 billion through the IPN since 2012. The largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado, Ibotta is headquartered in Denver, and is continually listed as a top place to work by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.

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• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking, bagel Wednesdays, snacks and occasional meals.
• Base compensation range: $110,000-126,000. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.
• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta's employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.