Senior Analytics Engineer

As a Senior Analytics Engineer working at Unblocked, you will design and build scalable and performant data pipelines, optimized for AI workflows. You will be part of an experienced group of engineers who thrive on building products that our customers love.

We are a small team with track record of building developer tools that solve real problems. We encourage participation in the entire product development process, and you will have the opportunity to help define Unblocked and shape its roadmap, implement the solutions that deliver the experience customers love, and get firsthand feedback from the teams who use what we have built.

About Unblocked

Unblocked is a high-growth, well-funded SaaS company that helps answer questions software development teams have about their applications. This allows them to spend less time in meetings/dealing with interruptions and more time writing code.

Unblocked works with large volumes of structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. We are looking for someone who can help us build a scalable data platform to clean, classify, and analyze this data for downstream consumption by LLM models.

About You

You’ve gained extensive experience as a software engineer with a track record of building and shipping products that customers love. You’ve built data pipelines that solve real customer problems, and have been eagerly researching and experimenting with emergent AI technologies, driven by a deep passion for understanding the intrinsic value and significance of data and its impact on modern AI products.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data processing requirements of the product, translate them into clear specifications.
• Architect scalable and cost-effective data solutions.
• Drive the implementation, testing, deployment, and operation of Unblocked's data solutions.

Requirements

• Experience in data modeling, cleaning, and classification techniques.
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Experience building composable Cloud Based Data Platforms in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience collaborating with DevOps teams.
• Lead a previous project with data development ETL/ELT processes for data integration.
• Demonstrated leadership of fellow team members in the delivery of a project.
• Expert-level software development skills in a modern typesafe development language.
• Based in Vancouver, British Columbia (and be in the office 4 days a week).

Desirable Skills

• Experience in leveraging NLP for text classification, sentiment analysis, or entity recognition.
• Familiarity with prompting OpenAI, Anthropic, or other LLM models to improve performance.
• Awareness of the latest industry developments, trends, and best practices, including regularly reading research papers and staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and techniques.

Culturally, we're looking for people who are:

• Driven to get things done: Anxious to design, build, and ship solutions on aggressive timelines; Willing to take pen to paper and write/sketch ideas, concepts, interactions; We are looking for makers, doers, creators!
• Able to play well with others: Comfortable in collaborative work environments; Solid communication skills; Great presenter, but even a better listener; Humble enough to actively solicit and incorporate feedback.
• A passionate, tireless, selfless advocate for the end-user: Unwavering in your desire to provide the best experience; Must be an effective champion for the interests of the customer.
• Different: Unique skill sets, methodologies, working styles, and ideas; Able to up-level an already strong team; Inspire the broader team with your expertise; Willingness to work outside your comfort zone and learn from others.
• An ambitious malcontent: Dissatisfied with the status quo in the world around you; Constantly aware of the potential for improvement with a keen desire to help technology play a more meaningful role in people's lives.

What's in it for you?

• A competitive base salary.
• Equity in the company for eligible candidates, offering the opportunity to share in our long-term success and growth.
• Generous medical and dental benefits.
• A very flexible vacation policy.
• Your choice of Apple hardware to get you started.
• Personal growth. We're a small company where there's no shortage of different projects to work on.