About LeafLink
LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors, and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together.
LeafLink processes more than $5 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.Our team, backed by funding from leading VC's, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’, one of Built In NYC's 'Best Places to Work in 2021', as well as one of Fast Company's 'Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020', joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare - and we're just getting started!
The Role
LeafLink is seeking a Data Engineer to join our New York-based team. As a remote or onsite member of the data engineering and analytics team, you will be in a position to have a direct impact on how LeafLink harnesses its first-party data from various sources to generate business value. This impactful position enables LeafLink to coordinate and integrate with 3rd party data sets and proprietary data to produce valuable insights into business and customer needs.
Who You Are
You are deeply passionate about organizing and managing data. You believe and understand the value that powerful reporting and analytics can drive for the business. You possess a structured and detail-oriented approach to solving problems using a diverse and resourceful technical toolkit. You can collaborate cross-functionally, communicating regular updates and leading projects should come easily to the candidate.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Python, and AWS cloud technologies
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
- Assist in building a high-performing data platform that will power various reporting and analytics applications at LeafLink
- Design, develop, and test data models in our data warehouse that enable data and analytics processes
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and address data quality issues quickly and effectively
- Manage codebase in a GIT-based repository structure and release properly tested code
- Maintain documentation on product capabilities, architecture, and infrastructure supporting the Data Environment
What You’ll Bring to the Team
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a professional working environment on a data or engineering team
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Expertise writing Python processing jobs to ingest a variety of structured and unstructured data received from various sources & formats such as Rest APIs, Flat Files, Logs
- You should also have experience using the following software/tools:
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting in Python and data processing libraries such as requests, pandas, sqlalchemy
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as Redshift, or comparable cloud-based OLAP databases such as Snowflake
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow
- Experience with cloud-based data stack, AWS cloud services is a plus
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as Dynamo, Terraform, Kubernetes, Fivetran, and dbt is a strong plus
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced growth business with many collaborators and quickly evolving business needs
LeafLink Perks & Benefits
- Flexible PTO - you’re going to be working hard so enjoy time off with no cap!
- A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success
- 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - giving back is important to us and we want our employees to prioritize cultivating a better community
- Competitive compensation and 401k match
- Comprehensive healthcoverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Commuter Benefits through our Flexible Spending Account
LeafLink’s employee-centric culture has earned us a coveted spot onBuiltInNYC’s Best Places to Work for in 2021 list. Learn more about LeafLink’s history and the path to our First Billion in Wholesale Cannabis Ordershere.Base salary range$235,000—$270,000 USD
