Junior Data Engineer

Who We Are

Same Seats. Better Prices.

Among the fastest growing technology companies, TickPick is reshaping the ticketing industry, putting money back in the wallets of live event-goers. Since inception, we have saved our customers over $100 million in service fees. Our BestPrice Guarantee backs up our promise to deliver better prices than our competition.

For the last five years, TickPick has been named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award winner and has landed on lists of Inc. 5000’s and Crain's New York Business’ Fast 50.

If you are passionate about concerts, sports, theater or all of them, and want to see your skills and experience have a direct impact on a fast growing company, TickPick is the place for you. We are building a diverse team, committed to providing the most innovative, transparent, and cost-effective ticket marketplace in the industry.

Who You Are

You are: a data engineer, backend software engineer, or other data specialist with strong desire and ability to implement high-impact data movement and management within a growing, technology-first team. 

In this core role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines touching a wide array of tools from the modern data stack, including but not limited to Snowflake, Spark, Dagster, dbt, and Azure Cloud offerings. You’ll be working closely with our current Data Engineer and other Analytics-focussed team members, as well as stakeholders from across the whole business. 

If you value continual learning and are looking to join a high-visibility and high-impact team at a growing company that’s making data a priority, then this role is for you.

Core Responsibilities

• Discover opportunities for data acquisition and implementation solutions
• Develop production processes and solutions to model, mine and surface data
• Improve and ensure data reliability, quality and efficiency

Requirements

• BS or above in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent personal or professional experience

• Communication ability is paramount: you understand the value of open communication and have a track record of interacting effectively with stakeholders and team members
• Experience and competency with at least one cloud services provider (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also worthwhile)
• Strong Python and SQL skills, as well as at least general competency with web languages (HTML/Javascript)
• Python data competency – knowledge of and experience with, eg, Pandas or other Dataframe libraries. Polars, PySpark, or DuckDB are a big plus
• Experience and competency with at least one general data orchestration tool, eg Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar other experience. Dagster specifically is a big plus
• dbt or other data modeling experience is a plus 
• Kafka experience is a plus
• Experience with web scraping tools is a plus, eg BeautifulSoup, Playwright, requests, or Selenium
• Experience with a dashboarding tool (eg Looker, Tableau, Superset, Metabase, or Streamlit) is a plus, but not most centrally important
• Experience with managed ETL tools (eg Fivetran, Hightouch) is worth mentioning if you have it, but not most centrally important 

Benefits

Per the NYC pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000.

As a candidate for this position, your salary will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills and any other factors TickPick considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, TickPick believes in providing a competitive benefits package for its employees. TickPick offers:

• A hybrid in-office approach, enabling remote work a portion of each week
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan Contribution (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development
• $100 Monthly Stipend to Attend Live Events
• Employee Outings
• Free Lunch & Snacks

Diversity at TickPick

At TickPick, we know that diversity of all types, in an environment that pursues equity and inclusion, strengthens our organization’s culture. When our employees are representative of the communities we serve, with diversity in demographics and a broad set of backgrounds, we provide a superior experience for both our customers and our employees. Fostering an open and supportive environment where our employees are empowered and encouraged to bring their whole selves to the table enables TickPick to thrive. The diverse approaches and collaborative problem solving that result enable us to provide an innovative, nimble, and creative marketplace for our customers and sellers. This belief is central to who we are and what we do, and we are proud of it.

TickPick, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected.