Job Description

Posted on:

October 28, 2024

About Bestow
Bestow is a leading insurance technology platform serving some of the world's largest and most innovative life insurers. We are on a mission to increase financial stability for everyone. Bestow is a team of mission-driven, results-oriented individuals. We offer all employees a remote (contiguous 48 only)/hybrid workplace, meaningful benefits, substantial growth opportunities, and equity. Bestow participates in the E-Verify Program.

About The Team
The Bestow Marketing Technology team operates like a startup within a startup, catering to diverse clients. Our mission is to create a simple yet powerful end-user experience that meets our clients' marketing and analytical needs by:

  • Designing and implementing innovative strategies leveraging 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-party data.
  • Driving business performance and deepening customer insights.
  • Advancing Bestow's marketing SaaS offerings.

As a member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in overseeing the data architecture that powers the integration, transformation, and activation of data across our rapidly evolving product suite. This role reports to our VP of Marketing Technology and is open to Remote (US).

About The Role
We are looking for a Marketing Technology Data Engineer to contribute in the following ways:

  • Build robust solutions for managing real-time and batch data, including integrations with partners via feeds or API, and interactive data reporting for client-facing applications.
  • Develop hardened and repeatable CI/CD data models and pipelines to enable reporting, modeling, and machine learning.
  • Design and implement data pipelines to support blending data from multiple sources and machine learning models, ensuring efficient data processing and feature engineering.
  • Improve data availability and quality for our enterprise clients through automated monitoring and alerting.
  • Leverage Google Cloud (GCP) tools and other services (e.g., Astronomer - Apache Airflow) to bring data workloads to production.
  • Enable end-user configuration of product features, ensuring seamless synchronization with the broader application.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver informed solutions that meet platform and client needs.
  • Make team-based decisions, fostering shared responsibility for defensible design considerations.

Your Experience
To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:

  • 5+ years working in a data engineering role supporting product, analytics, and data science teams.
  • Proficient in SQL, schema design, and experienced with columnar databases like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, or Amazon Redshift (familiarity with GraphQL a plus).
  • 4+ years of Python experience, writing efficient, testable, and readable code.
  • Experience building and optimizing real-time and batch processing solutions ensuring high availability and low latency.
  • Skilled in designing end-to-end data pipelines in cloud frameworks (GCP, AWS, Azure) addressing multi-stakeholder requirements.
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud (GCP) tools (e.g., Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI, App Engine, Cloud Storage, IAM).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines for data processing (Docker, CircleCI, dbt, git).
  • Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Pulumi) and data orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow).

TOTAL REWARDS
At Bestow, we’re proud to be recognized for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

  • Competitive salary and equity based on role.
  • Policies and managers that support work/life balance, including flexible paid time off and parental leave programs.
  • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
  • Flexible work-from-home policy, open to remote options, and a beautiful state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum for those who prefer an office setting.

Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Recent Employer Awards Include:

  • Best Place for Working Parents 2023
  • Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024
  • Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023
  • Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023
  • Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will recruit, hire, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow.

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