Backend Developer/Senior Data Engineer

• Job Title: Backend Developer/Data Engineer (Senior/Staff equivalent)
• Department: Labs
• Work Location: Chicago
• Reports To: Head of Labs
  
  

Who We Are:

Valor Equity Partners is a different kind of private investment firm. We invest in technology and technology-enabled companies that innovate and disrupt existing industries — from biosciences to transportation to food to health and wellness.

Our mission is to invest in and work side by side with companies that make the world a better place. These companies include SpaceX, Anduril, GoPuff, HackerOne, Cloud9, and others . We’ve had the honor of serving some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and companies.

Our values are core to all we do. These values are excellence, humility, integrity, and responsibility.

Valor Means That We

• Strive for excellence in everything we do;
• Maintain our humility and mutual respect no matter what circumstances we encounter;
• Insist upon the highest level of integrity in our interactions and in the logic of our investment process; and
• Demonstrate responsibility and dedication to all of our constituents
  
  

About the Role:

• Create, design, and deploy ETL and ELT flows for consuming from disparate sources of 3 rd party data
• Build tooling to monitor data pipelines and perform troubleshooting and debugging to identify and resolve data quality and performance issues
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their data requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Collaborate with software and data engineers to help build a highly valuable software product
• Collaborate with ML Engineers to deploy, monitor, and maintain ML models in production environments
• Lead the integration of ML workflows with CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent and seamless model versioning, testing, and rollout
• You will help shape the future of software engineering at Valor by bringing your ideas on improving and automating what we do and how we do it
  
  

We’re Excited About Candidates That Have…

• 5+ years of software development experience, with significant contributions that you can talk to
• Exceptional coding skills in Python
• Additional skills in RESTFUL API design, especially Flask, Django, or FastAPI are good to have
• Experience with Scala and Spark or PySpark
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• SQL skills and working knowledge of multiple database types
• Experience in ML Ops
• Experience in DevOps for CI/CD, IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
• Modern ETL tools (Apache Beam, Kafka, Spark or similar)
• Passion for software engineering while being mission-driven, hard-working, humble, intellectually curious, and most importantly, great team players
• Bias for execution and delivery. You know that what matters is delivering software that works every time
• Ability to assist in system design and the generation of key technical assumptions while encouraging solutions that respect existing infrastructure
• Willingness to be resourceful, flexible, and adaptable; no task is too big or too small
  

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: React with Hooks, Material UI
• Backend: Python, Fast API
• Tooling: Google Cloud Platform
• Data: PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Elastic Search, Prefect, Kafka, Scala, Spark, dbt

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