Senior Data Engineer at Mainstay
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As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Platform team at Mainstay, you will build data products in partnership with data science and product teams. This is a unique opportunity where your data engineering output will be the shipped product, not just an internal resource. Our customers are businesses operating in the single-family home market, and our goal is to provide them with high-quality data to inform underwriting, leasing, vendor management, and more.
We are a small team dedicated to quality engineering and are looking for a technical leader to help us evolve our products and establish best practices.
Youâre expected to:
- Architect durable data models with intuitive representations of residential real estate
- Design graceful and reliable workflows to generate data assets
- Inform the overall architecture of our data platform
- Establish standards and best practices for data engineering
- Become a domain expert in real estate
What weâre looking for:
- 6+ years of experience working in data engineering or software engineering
- Expertise in data architecture, data modeling, and building data pipelines at scale
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or Spark
- Expertise in cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
- Experience scheduling and operating batch data processing workflows
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar orchestration systems
- Data Warehouse (DWH) architecture and Change Data Capture (CDC) modeling techniques
- Web scraping and data extraction from public or semi-structured sources
- Experience with AI/ML platforms such as SageMaker, MLflow, or similar
- Hands-on experience managing data platform infrastructure, with proficiency in tools such as Terraform, Docker, and AWS services
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Mainstay
View Company ProfileMainstay (formerly AdmitHub) is a pioneering student engagement and EdTech platform that leverages behavioral intelligence and AI-powered chatbots to drive enrollment, retention, and student success. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company completely revolutionized higher education communication by introducing proactive, conversational AI that guides students through complex administrative and academic processes. Under the hood, Mainstayâs platform seamlessly integrates with existing university CRMs and student information systems to deliver personalized, omnichannel nudges at scaleâinstantly answering questions about financial aid, campus life, and enrollment deadlines via SMS and web chat. Their primary target audience spans major state universities, community colleges, and large-scale employers who need to support massive populations with limited advising staff. What sets Mainstay apart in the crowded EdTech landscape is its rigorous reliance on behavioral science and peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials, proving that their empathetic AI doesnât just automate answers, but actively reduces "summer melt" and significantly boosts graduation rates.
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