Senior Data Engineer

This role is an opportunity to:

• Join a rapidly growing national firm at a formative stage
• Make a visible, measurable impact on a rapidly growing business
• Grow your skills, responsibility, and influence as the firm scales
• Work alongside high-caliber, mission-driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work

We are looking for people who don’t just want a job, they want purpose and impact.

• Design, build, and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines from internal systems and third-party data sources
• Implement scalable ELT workflows that process and deliver data across the organization
• Maintain transformation pipelines and ensure reliable delivery of analytics-ready datasets

Data Platform Engineering

• Manage and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of the company’s cloud data warehouse environment
• Maintain orchestration frameworks and scheduling systems that support data workflows
• Optimize data pipeline performance, compute utilization, and system efficiency
• Support infrastructure required for advanced analytics and machine learning workloads

Data Infrastructure & Reliability

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability across data pipelines and platform components
• Ensure data freshness and system uptime meet defined service expectations
• Diagnose and resolve production issues including pipeline failures, data quality issues, and performance bottlenecks

Engineering Standards & Development Practices

• Maintain version-controlled data infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for data pipelines
• Implement testing and validation practices to ensure data quality and reliability
• Contribute to documentation of data pipelines, system architecture, and platform dependencies

Collaboration

• Partner with the Director of Data to implement data architecture and platform improvements
• Support analytics and BI teams by ensuring reliable and well-modeled datasets are available for reporting and analysis
• Contribute engineering input to platform improvements and technical roadmap initiatives

At TopDog Law, everyone is expected to think critically, communicate clearly, and take ownership of their work.

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale the data platform that powers analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

This role is responsible for designing and maintaining reliable data pipelines, building scalable data infrastructure, and ensuring that high-quality, well-structured data is consistently available for analytics and operational use.

The Senior Data Engineer will work closely with the Director of Data, who defines the broader data strategy and architecture. This role focuses on translating that strategy into reliable production systems and ensuring the day-to-day reliability, performance, and scalability of the data platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on data platform development, pipeline reliability, and infrastructure scalability.

This role is critical to our success because it:

• Directly impacts [clients / revenue / case outcomes / team efficiency]
• Supports speed, quality, and consistency as we scale
• Helps protect and elevate the TopDog Law brand and client experience
• Strengthens the foundation needed to grow responsibly and sustainably

Within your first 6–12 months, success in this role looks like:

• You consistently deliver on commitments with minimal oversight
• You proactively identify issues and propose solutions
• Your work raises the bar for quality, clarity, and follow-through
• You are viewed as a reliable, trusted partner by teammates and leaders
• You contribute positively to team energy, morale, and momentum

Required:

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets
• Experience with modern cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or BigQuery
• Experience building transformation workflows using dbt or similar tools
• Experience working with orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Strong understanding of data pipeline reliability, performance optimization, and scalability
• Experience using version control systems such as Git in collaborative development environments

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting data infrastructure used for machine learning workflows
• Experience building feature pipelines or supporting predictive modeling workloads
• Experience using Python for data processing and pipeline development
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability for data systems
• Experience working in high-growth or rapidly scaling environments
• Strong communication skills—written and verbal
• Ability to think critically, prioritize effectively, and execute with speed

TopDog Law is a nationally scaling, fully-integrated, personal injury law firm built for impact, excellence, and growth. We own the client experience end-to-end, from marketing and intake through litigation, because we believe how we do the work matters just as much as what we achieve.

We are building a high-performance, high-trust, no-ego culture where talented people do meaningful work, grow quickly, and take pride in what they build together. This is not a legacy law firm. This is a rocket ship, and we’re assembling the team that will take it to the next level.

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, love taking ownership and being held accountable, and want to be part of something you can help shape, not just maintain, you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Story

TopDog Law is not your typical law firm. We believe that world-class marketing, paired with exceptional legal talent and operations, creates better experiences and outcomes for clients and the business alike.

Over the past three years, we’ve grown 2–3x year over year, setting a new standard on the marketing side of the personal injury space and proving what’s possible when strategy, speed, and execution align. Now, we’re applying that same discipline and innovation to law firm operations, case management, and execution as we scale nationally and fully integrate.

We are intentionally building the infrastructure, systems, and teams needed to scale at a national level—without sacrificing quality, culture, or accountability. This is still the early stage of that journey, which means the people who join now have a real opportunity to help shape how the firm operates for years to come.

We don’t hire based on resumes alone. We hire for competence, character, and mindset.

You will thrive at TopDog Law if you:

• You have a growth mindset and seek continuous improvement
• You welcome feedback and adapt quickly
• You ask “What’s next?” rather than “That’s not my job”

• You care deeply about doing great work
• You have your teammates’ backs
• You’re here to build something meaningful and long-lasting

• You show up positive, professional, and solutions-oriented
• You enjoy the work and respect the people around you
• You leave drama, negativity, and ego at the door

• You do what you say you’ll do
• You follow through and communicate early when something’s off track
• You treat the business like it’s yours

• You move with urgency and sound judgment
• You prioritize progress over perfection
• You thrive in fast-paced, high-expectation environments
• You seek feedback, stretch assignments, and more responsibility
• You’re motivated by growth, impact, and building something bigger than yourself

• Real growth: As the firm grows, so do opportunities for advancement and leadership
• High standards, real support: Clear expectations, coaching, and accountability
• Culture that matters: Trust, respect, speed, and integrity, without sacrificing humanity
• Meaningful work: Helping people through some of the hardest moments of their lives

If you’re excited by ownership, accountability, growth, and the chance to help build something exceptional from the ground up - we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of TopDog Law.