Starship Technologies

Senior Analytics Engineer

10 October 2024
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£87000 - £163000 / year

Job Description

Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. These robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across college campuses and neighborhoods in minutes. Starship has now completed millions of autonomous deliveries to date, traveled millions of miles, and is currently doing more than 140k road crossings each day. Our contribution to society includes reducing congestion, and pollution, providing zero-emissions deliveries, increasing the quality of life for residents, empowering seniors and disabled people, and enabling affordable delivery for local businesses.

We’re hitting records on an almost weekly basis. Now is an exciting time to join as we grow rapidly around the world!

We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Data team and play an essential part in our mission to provide the world with affordable and environment-friendly deliveries. 

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in refining and enhancing our data products. You’ll focus on refactoring and building data pipelines for revenue tracking, forecasting, and operational processes such as supply chain and servicing.

Additionally, you’ll elevate our dbt project by improving guidelines, ensuring consistency, and increasing test coverage. There is also a chance to occasionally contribute to dashboards and other data products.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive significant improvements in our data systems and practices.

This position can be based in Estonia or Finland.

Your main responsibilities are:

  • Designing and implementing data models in dbt (SQL), including testing
  • Debugging and tuning the performance of SQL queries
  • Contributing to best practice guidelines and assisting data platform users with their data-related tasks
  • Occasionally developing or improving dashboards, forecasting models, or other data products

What’s in it for you?

  • You will collaborate with people with a strong inner burning and motivation. We are self-aware and seek feedback and improvement. We take pride in our ability to make the most of limited resources to solve problems no one has ever encountered before
  • Starship’s Data team is praised for excellence in every aspect, offering ample learning opportunities. The team members are highly skilled, providing a great opportunity for personal development
  • We are a fast-growing startup, with great opportunities to grow within the company. Your contribution will matter. There are lots of ways you can make a difference and personally feel the impact
  • You’ll have endless opportunities to learn from our inspirational, talented team members across the globe

What we hope you’ll bring to the table:

  • Experience as an Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer or in a similar role
  • Very strong skills in SQL, data modeling, and building robust data pipelines
  • An active interest in analytics engineering
  • Enjoyment of SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting, with a determination to resolve tricky errors in queries or dbt configurations
  • A focus on quality and conceptual clarity
  • Good communication skills in both verbal and written English
  • Ability to achieve results independently as well as through teamwork

Beneficial:

  • Experience with dbt, Databricks, Spark, and Airflow
  • Experience with scripting, particularly in Python

Want to learn more about our robots and our people? Get in touch and let’s have a chat! Also, have a sneak peek to our blog and discover more about us!