The CompanySimplyAnalytics is a powerful spatial analytics and data visualization application used by thousands of business marketing and social science researchers in the United States and Canada. It comes pre-packaged with 200000 data variables and allows our users to create maps charts tabular reports and crosstabs. We are passionate about creating outstanding software and we believe in test driven development continuous integration and code review.
As a smaller company each of our developers has an important role to play - at SimplyAnalytics you are not just another cog in the wheel you are an integral member of our team. You will be working on valuable features and making key decisions that impact the direction of the product and our addition we provide an excellent work-life balance with 100% remote work 20 personal days off flexible work hours a collaborative work environment and quarterly professional development days to explore and share your interests with the rest of the team.
We do not use AI in our hiring process - a real person reviews all candidates.
The RoleWere looking for a Senior Data Developer to process datasets manage our existing data workflows develop and maintain ETL pipelines and conduct data related QA. You will be creating and maintaining production-quality in-house tools within a large shared code base and the data you curate will be used by thousands of university students researchers and marketing professionals. This is not a data science or BI role we are looking for an experienced software developer.
We use Python and PHP for development Postgres/PostGIS for data storage and Dask and Dagster for data orchestration. We also use modern software development practices such as static typing and analysis as well as automated testing.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter has a high level of attention to detail is comfortable asking questions enjoys working with talented colleagues and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.
We are a 100% remote company. Our employees can live anywhere in Canada. This is a full-time salaried position. When applying please include a human written cover letter (do not submit an AI generated cover letter if you would like us to consider your application).
Responsibilities:- Design develop and test data processing related tools and features
- Process datasets through our data pipelines
- Write high-quality clean scalable maintainable code
- Contribute ideas for new data processing tools or improvements to existing tools
- Assist colleagues through code-review collaboration and troubleshooting
Required:- 5 years of professional software development work experience
- 3 years of experience working with large Python codebases
- 3 years of experience working with large PHP codebases
- Comfortable using Linux CLI
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Advanced relational database and data manipulation skills
- Ability to maintain our full data processing stack in PHP and Python
- Experience with Docker
Bonus:- Experience with geospatial demographic business marketing or health data
- Experience with PostGIS
- Experience with data orchestration platforms (e.g. Dagster Airflow or Prefect)
- Experience with Mypy or other static analyzers
- Experience with AWS