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About the Role
The Data Engineer will play a critical role in shaping IPH’s data ecosystem, building the platforms and pipelines that enable smarter decisions across analytics, product, and operations. This person will bring both technical excellence and a collaborative mindset, designing scalable, high-performance data solutions while ensuring reliability, quality, and accessibility. Ideal candidates have experience in pet insurance or other consumer-facing industries like e-commerce or subscription businesses and are passionate about translating complex business needs into actionable data solutions. Beyond coding and architecture, this role is about fostering strong partnerships across teams, mentoring peers, and championing best practices that make data engineering a force multiplier for the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale cloud-based data platforms and pipelines (batch and streaming) to support analytics, product, and operational use cases.
- Own critical data workflows, ensuring reliability, performance, and quality across the data ecosystem.
- Implement modern data solutions using tools like dbt, Databricks, ELT frameworks, and other cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake).
- Apply best practices in CI/CD, Git, testing, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, balancing technical rigor with strong interpersonal skills to translate business needs into scalable, accessible data solutions.
Requirements
- 3 years building and scaling cloud-based data platforms and pipelines.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with a focus on automation, performance, and reliability.
- Experience with large-scale datasets, structured and unstructured.
- Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, Databricks) and streaming/event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Solid experience with AWS data services and ELT/ETL workflows.
- Proficiency in CI/CD, Git, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Proven ability to lead projects, influence stakeholders, and mentor others.
- Experience designing data platforms at scale in a high-growth or startup environment.
- Familiarity with customer-centric tools like Segment, Stripe, Salesforce, or mParticle.
- Experience supporting analytics, machine learning, or personalization initiatives with robust data foundations.
- Knowledge of data privacy and compliance best practices (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Prior contributions to open-source projects, internal data tooling, or technical blogs/presentations.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- dbt
- Databricks
- ELT frameworks
- AWS
- Snowflake
- CI/CD
- Git
- testing
- monitoring
- infrastructure-as-code
- Airflow
- Fivetran
- streaming/event-driven systems
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- AWS data services
- ELT/ETL workflows
- Segment
- Stripe
- Salesforce
- mParticle
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid – United States
- Chicago, OH
- New York, OH
- Columbus, OH
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3 years building and scaling cloud-based data platforms and pipelines
Benefits
- Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
- Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Company paid short-term and long-term disability
- 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Retirement savings plan
- Personal Paid Time Off
- Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
- Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
- Pet friendly office environment
- Commuter Benefits
- Group Pet Insurance
- On the job training and skills development
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
About the Company
- Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.
- We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets.
- As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents.
- Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.