| Senior Software Engineer - Data / Analytics
Kipsu is a growth stage Minneapolis-based technology company that has grown to over 120 employees. At Kipsu, we help service professionals Meet the Moment – from partnering with the largest hospitality brands in the world to working with clients in the multifamily and healthcare industries. Our best-in-class technology enables organizations around the globe to better serve their customers through streamlined messaging, data-driven performance metrics, sentiment analysis and workflow management. As one of the Twin Cities’ leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for having a strong company culture and is consistently recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on data and analytics at Kipsu, you’ll work with a wide range of tools to ensure data quality and deliver reliable insights to stakeholders both inside and outside the company. In this role, you’ll use technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, REST APIs, Terraform, and AWS services such as Redshift, EventBridge, Lambda, DMS, and AppFlow. You’ll partner closely with product and executives, giving you the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on Kipsu’s business every day. Along the way, you’ll have guidance and support as you help us elevate our data and analytics practice.
WHAT YOU’LL DO - Dive into data challenges — from building pipelines to solving one-off business puzzles with ad hoc queries and statistical data analysis
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their goals and turn them into technical solutions
- Write complex but fast-executing SQL against a variety of RDBM systems to help answer critical business questions
- Test, validate, and document your work so our insights stay reliable and trustworthy
- Translate complex data into reports that make sense to non-technical humans
- Design and maintain ETL/ELT processes that keep our data warehouse humming
- Help design, build, and test an analytics dashboard for our customers
- Keep our data strategy sharp by contributing to data warehouse planning, data governance, and best practices
- Advocate for and demonstrate best practices in data design, data engineering, data transformation, data warehousing, data analytics
- Spot opportunities to improve processes and recommend data-driven improvements
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on data and analytics
- Specific experience with most or all our data and analytics stack – MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Redshift, Jaspersoft
- Demonstrated experience with ETL/ELT work
- A passion for data and making data work with Business Intelligence tools such as Jaspersoft
- A desire not just to work within the existing status quo, but rather a true drive to be a "builder" and shape a modern data and analytics stack that is critical to our business
- A deliberate delivery mindset and attention to detail
- An ability to partner with client-facing teammates to help create insights out of information
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you’ve run into some obstacles along the way
WHAT MAKES KIPSU DIFFERENT - We’re a solid, stable company, and we enthusiastically embrace our founding startup spirit– everyone pitching in and working to achieve the same goals
- Our culture– We have a team of highly motivated colleagues who are all in it together. We all succeed as one, and we all learn from our mistakes holding our interdependence in high regard
- Our unique philosophy– we bootstrapped this company ourselves and are in it for the long term. There is a distinct sense of purpose and ownership at Kipsu as we do things on our own terms
- Remarkable growth– with nearly a decade of advancement, we continue to accelerate. It’s an exciting time to be here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE - Unity– Everyone here is committed to the same mission. Our core values are not platitudes but our pact. We believe in the best in each other while always reaching to be better
- Transparency– Our leadership gets into the details. We all gather for weekly space to discover how each team is doing so that we have a full understanding of the business and think like a CEO
- Trust– Our team members are given the trust and license to excel at their jobs, and are supported along the way to continuously grow
- Mentorship - We all have more to learn and something to teach. The lessons are beyond technical. We celebrate our busy hive of shared growth
- Respect– Our success and future as an industry leader depend on actionable commitment to cultivating a diverse and equitable team. Everyone here has a voice that is heard and respected. We seek open and honest conversation on our journey to be active stewards of our shared communities
- Purpose– Everyone here is closely connected to the result of their work. Every day our team gets to see the impact of what they do enhancing the value of our customers’ work in their own professions. Our goals are explicitly tethered to our mission of building relationships
The compensation range for this position is $90,000-$130,000/yr.
One last thing – At Kipsu, we believe that our values, success, and future as a leader in our industry require a vibrant and diverse workforce. This is one of the many challenges we seek to solve, and we are intentional and active in recruiting talent of all identities and building an environment that is inclusive of all backgrounds. We need your contribution to our team. Please, consider rolling up your sleeves and joining us on our journey and let us know if we can make any accommodations to better empower your candidate journey.
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