Guild Education is bridging the gap between education and employment, helping top employers offer Education as a Benefit to their employees.

Guild’s education platform empowers top companies to help working adults go back to school, with tuition assistance programs that align the corporate business goals and affordable education programs that working adults love. Guild’s network of online, nonprofit universities and learning providers offer a consortium of classes, programs, and college degrees, along with college advising and retention coaching, helping each student navigate the worlds of work and college.

Guild is looking for a Data Engineer to join our technology team and work across our teams to help Guild build the next generation of our data products. You’ll work with Tom, Sean, Sam and others to find the right mix of data infrastructure and data pipelines needed to support growth and scale within our education network and SaaS platform.

This role is great for you if are excited about making a difference with data by building a digital solution that connects students, employers and universities to deliver education at an affordable price to students, ultimately changing the landscape for how we think about delivering education products to learners across the country.

Please submit a link to your code portfolio and answers to the following prompts with your resume:

1. Where do you see the alignment between Guild’s mission and student population and your personal or professional experience? What are you most excited to contribute?
2. Tell us about a recent data solution you built to solve a complex problem
3. Tell us about how you would leverage technology to drive forward Guild’s ability to better support our students through data

As a data engineer at Guild you will:

• Design, build and expand Guild’s backend data infrastructure, including data pipelines, ETL, data ingestion, data APIs and data warehouses
• Choose and leverage the latest technologies in data engineering to automate data integration and loading, such as, Amazon Redshift, Redis, Java, Scala, Spark, Python, S3 and PostgreSQL
• Build APIs that can be used internally or externally to serve crucial information across systems, partners and teams
• Enjoy building new systems and the autonomy to leverage your experience to design solutions that will be the backbone of a highly scalable, reusable backend data infrastructure
• Care deeply about data quality as a basis for sound decision-making as well as ensure our data is clean, accurate and secure
• Translate complex business requirements into usable, scalable data models and systems
• Work in an agile team environment with a high performing engineering team
• Mentor other engineers and analysts on the team sharing technical knowledge to enable others to be more effective at their jobs

We’ll prioritize the following experience and attributes as we evaluate candidates throughout the hiring process:

• Experience building data warehouses, data pipelines and/or custom ETL processes
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, Python or Scala
• Expertise in database technologies such as Redshift, SQL, Redis, and working with large sets of data
• Have deployed solutions to cloud technology services such as Amazon Web Services
• Improve software products through engineering best practices such as refactoring, reusability, TDD and continuous integration
• Have proven ability to thrive in changing environments by having a fast, flexible, cooperative work style
• A strong communicator that can effectively explain technical concepts to other engineers, analysts, product managers and stakeholders.
• Experience with BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, Kibana, Chart.io, etc.
• Basic experience in statistical analysis, text processing and machine learning

Guild Education believes that a diverse and inclusive team will contribute toward our ability to achieve our mission and will dedicate intentional effort to building a team that reflects that belief.