Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Lead Analytics Engineering Data Team

• We are looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
• Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
• You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
• You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
• You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
• You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
• You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:Data Modeling and Transformation

• Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.
• Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.
• Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

• Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.
• Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
• Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.
• Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

• Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
• Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why you're a great fit:

• 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment. 
• Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and  data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
• You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
• Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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The salary range for this role is negotiable, the range being $6,000-$12,500 per month (Gross in USD), based on location and experience level.  

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this principal development role, with 12+ years of experience, the compensation range is  $6,000 - $12,500 USD based on location and experience level per month and in gross amount. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated, best-in-class Principal Engineer for our Data Infrastructure. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

Sezzle is growing; our data generation and consumption is growing with us at an increasing scale. Data is extremely valuable, and we want to empower the business, the engineers, and the rest of the organization to be able to read, write, and analyze large volumes of it quickly and efficiently.

Sezzle is a heavy consumer of MySQL, Postgres, and Redshift, leveraging AWS tooling with Aurora RDS and DMS. We use DBT-based transformations and similar toolkits to populate a rapidly growing data lake that supports multiple data warehouses. It’s scaled well with us so far, and we’re looking to continue improving it, but we also want to step into new tooling and technologies.

What you’ll do: 

• End to end ownership of our database and data warehousing infrastructure, its KPIs and its SLAs, including MySQL, Postgres, CDC capture, and Redshift.
• Lead optimizations in database and query performance.
• ​​Build and maintain tooling to help manage and upgrade our data infrastructure, continually improving with migrations and optimizations.
• Partner with Development to ensure we ship solid queries against a battle-tested schema to meet the needs of our products and business.

• Help Sezzle evolve our data systems beyond the current scale and stack with whatever tooling is necessary to handle processing high volumes of writes and events while performing complex ETL.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies, guiding the evolution of Sezzle’s data infrastructure.
• Help data engineers and analysts optimize Redshift and warehouse performance, including query tuning, modeling improvements, and cost management.

What We look for: 

• 12+ years of experience in DBA, SRE, or Data Engineering roles, with a strong track record of scaling production-grade systems.
• Deep expertise with MySQL, Postgres, AWS Redshift or similar products, including performance tuning, table design, and workload management.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL.
• Strong hands-on experience with data replication and ETL/ELT frameworks, especially DBT, AWS DMS, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, distributed systems, and warehouse/lake design patterns.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with excellent communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior experience in high-growth, data-intensive fintech or similar regulated environments.
• Knowledge of lakehouse architectures and modern stacks such as Snowflake, Databricks, Iceberg, or Delta Lake.
• Some background in designing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines using modern orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.) processing anywhere from 100GB to 1 TB of new data a day
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Spark Streaming).
• High enthusiasm for using AI to be as productive as possible.

About You: 

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend: Golang
• Database: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit tests
• Open Source: Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

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