Data Engineer

Were Kuona (kuona.ai), an AI technology company that empowers consumer products and retailers to live up to their revenue goals and empowers our clients to maximize their sales and profitability through the dynamic optimization of prices, promotions, and inventories. Our AI-powered platform helps top brands like Coca-Cola, Heineken, and Nutrioli to maximize their profits and optimize inventories. We are looking for people that are world-class, curious, innovative, bright, and work to be better every single day!

We are currently looking for a solution-oriented Data Engineer to help us build and maintain complex data pipelines and analytical solutions that deepen our collective understanding of customers. You will encounter a wide range of problem-solving situations, strategic to real-time, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis. As a Data Engineer, you will work with the Data Science team to drive and evolve our analytics solutions and data systems. You will greatly contribute to analytics decision-making, analysis, and data integration to enable Kuona to become a world-class data-driven organization. This position is fully remote.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding and become a subject matter expert for the current database and related functions and systems

• Creation and maintenance of architecture to obtain optimal pipelines of information.

• Assemble large and complex datasets that meet the functional requirements of the collection.

• Identify, design, and implement internal processes to optimize scalability and information delivery as well as the automation of manual processes.

• Construction of analytical tools that prevent errors in the data, thus ensuring a high quality of the information collected.

• Assist in requirements gathering, design, and development of complex data systems that collect, analyze, and measure data throughout all business units

• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources using diverse technologies.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience working in data engineering, business intelligence, or engineering

• Experience analyzing and integrating data using Python and SQL to extract and transform data according to business rules and requirements

• 1+ years of experience working with Pandas, Relational Databases and NoSQL, and AWS.

• 2+ years of experience working with large-scale data warehouses, web APIs, and database platforms to integrate internal and external data sources

• Attention to detail and the ability to think critically and solve problems using analytical and quantitative methodologies

• Analytical and Problem-Solving skills

• Teamwork and Leadership skills

• English spoken and written

• Spanish spoken and written

Your experience with Kuona:

• Creativity: We like that all team members can propose and create new features

• Self-management: Since we are a very horizontal company, we require that team members can decide for themselves what to work on and define priorities

• Opportunities to learn: We offer all our employees a wide opportunity to learn things you probably wouldn't be exposed to in a corporate environment.

• High Impact: You will be involved in the growth and evolution of the company, and all your contributions will be of high impact on the overall results.

• We value our culture: We are fully committed to prioritizing great results for our clients and an amazing employee experience for our people.

• Ability to work anywhere / Flexibility: We provide everyone the opportunity to design your day and execute your projects with flexibility and focus on your well-being.

Benefits:

• Competitive base compensation

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Flexible time off and 12 holidays

• Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs

• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team

Our process:

This is our basic process, we may add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.

• Introductory screening call with someone from our recruiting team.

• Interview loop with additional team members, with the following panel:

  • Technical interview for the role + Test Project

  • Industry knowledge and management experience

  • Culture fit and behavioral interview with our CEO

• Reference Checks

• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.

Kuona provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.