Data Engineer

About Tekmetric

Tekmetric is a cloud-based auto-repair shop management system with an easy-to-use workflow and a modern approach to customer care. Tekmetric champions transparency, integrity, innovation—and above all—a service-mentality that puts customers first.

Founded in Houston, Texas in 2015, Tekmetric has been providing reliable, fast customer service to shops from day one. Our team is growing quickly, but our service philosophy of listening to customers still remains a core value.

We’re looking for hungry candidates to help us strengthen our industry-leading team. We’re building our software to be more intuitive. We’re building more integrations that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re building better internal processes to make our globally distributed organization run more smoothly. We’re building stronger relationships with the best and brightest partners in our industry.

Our customers love our products. We love serving them. And we love the journey we’re on together.

Come build with us!

What You’ll Do

As a Data Engineer  you will play a critical role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of our data infrastructure and pipelines. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, and revenue to ensure that our data is accurate, accessible, and reliable for making informed business decisions. Your expertise will contribute to the optimization of data flow and storage, enabling us to extract actionable insights and drive innovation.

• Build scalable data pipelines using Python, Spark and Airflow to move data from different applications into our data lake.
• Define and implement the long term technology strategy and innovations roadmaps across data engineering areas
• Provide hands-on technical and execution leadership for the data engineering team
• Work with product, engineering, operations, finance, accounting, and other cross functional teams to maintain the integrity of our data warehouse and data infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with upstream engineering groups to elevate data generation approaches
• Collaborate with data recipients across Tekmetric to grasp usage trends and formulate user-friendly data models.
• Ideate and contribute to shared data engineering tooling and standards.
• Define and promote data engineering best practices across the company.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years experience in software engineering with a focus in data
• Expert in SQL and one or more programming languages (ideally Python, Java or Scala)
• Experience with ETL tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Airflow)
• Experience working with data modeling, data architecture design, and ETL pipelines
• Experience working with batching and streaming data infrastructure
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, etc)
• You enjoy working in fast moving and dynamic environments
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• If local to the Arlington, VA area this will be a hybrid work model

Who You Are

Successful candidates will also demonstrate many of the characteristics that our core values represent:

• Build things that matter: 
• You have a love of building something new or improving on current processes and care about making a positive difference.
• We’re all entrepreneurs: 
• You love learning new things and are comfortable working in a startup-like, dynamic environment -- moving quickly, even in the face of ambiguity. You are a self-directed leader who can jump in, structure their own work, and figure out how best to execute a plan yourself and with others. At Tekmetric our leaders are all players and coaches.
• Yes before no: 
• You keep an open mind and are excited about new ideas and helping others actualize their ideas. You are intellectually curious and analytical in a strategic context.
• We matter to each other: 
• You care about people and see the success of one is success for us all. You are a highly ethical individual with unquestioned integrity and the experience, confidence, and stature to protect confidential information in a growing company.

What We Offer:

Healthcare Insurance and Leave:

• Flexible and remote work opportunities
• Generous PTO
• Exceptional leave programs for all of life’s moments: maternity, paternity and parental bonding, as well as medical leave to care for yourself or loved ones
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage

Financial Benefits:

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 6% Match
• Employer covered STD, LTD, Life and AD&D Insurance Programs
• Up to $60 monthly for wellness expenses and activities
• Education Assistance- includes undergraduate/graduate courses and continuing education

Most importantly, we have a stellar team of coworkers, a really cool office, and lots of fun activities!

Tekmetric is an equal opportunity employer. We hire hard working individuals, regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We know that when our employees feel appreciated and included, they can be more creative, innovative and successful.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.