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New York, New York

Remote anywhere in the US

The Action Network is an exciting sports media start-up that builds products and creates content to inform and entertain the sports bettor. The sports betting and fantasy sports space is massive ($170bn in the US), growing and underserved from a product and content perspective, and we have the talent, domain expertise and passion to win the space.

We are looking for a motivated Lead Data Engineer with strong problem-solving skills and the willingness to work with a large group of people to join our team. This person will be responsible for supporting our predictive analysts in building and maintaining the databases that power our subscription tools. Success in this role is highly dependent on the ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize multiple tasks and achieve effective results in a high energy, fast-paced work environment.

Responsibilities

Deliver solutions that are well-engineered, maintainable, and tested consistently and quickly

Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities as it relates to helping our predictive analysis team function at an efficient level

Observe system performance in your domain and identify emerging problems

Quickly assess and resolve production incidents that arise in the components your team is responsible for

Qualifications

4-7 years experience in a similar position

Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or equivalent experience

Strong analytical skills, ability to learn quickly, communicate and work collaboratively in a team environment

Extensive experience with extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) data and experience with Python

Extensive experience writing and optimizing SQL queries

Some big data experience with Spark/EMR/Databricks

Experience using api's to automate data ingestion

Familiarity with scraping tools and technologies

Familiarity with AWS streaming services such as Kafka and Firehose.

Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills

Passionate about producing clean, maintainable, robust, well-tested code

Benefits:The company offers a competitive health insurance package with great benefits, including unlimited vacation and a competitive 401k Plan. The benefits plan presently includes Medical, Dental, Vision coverage, Supplemental life insurance and Long / Short-term disability coverage.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and the community.

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