Founded in 2018 and based in NYC, The Block is the leading research, analysis, and news brand in the digital asset space. The Block's team is spread across 5 continents and 15+ countries, covering the global cryptocurrency space 24/7.
The Block delivers deep insight into how the emerging digital assets sector interacts with traditional finance, technology, governments, and markets. We reach hundreds of thousands of technologists, financial market participants, Fortune 500 professionals, global service providers, policymakers, and more through our main website, dedicated Research Portal, podcast, and events.
You will be responsible for developing new data offerings, developing and supporting solutions for product analytics, and capturing feedback from our logging and debugging services to both troubleshoot and make improvements.
An effective Data Engineer should be able to effectively communicate with the Product & Engineering team while developing ETL pipelines that support our data and analytics product efforts. The ideal candidate must be able to prioritize tasks and complete them in a timely manner.
*We have multiple openings and are hiring all levels of engineers for this position*
Responsibilities
- Be a part of building a new data offering that supports our Research and Data Dashboard products.
- Collaborate with our engineers, researchers, executives, and designers to develop new data capabilities.
- Clearly communicate development progress across the Product & Engineering team.
- Be creative in solving engineering problems.
- Work with team managers on development prioritization and career development opportunities.
- Contribute to the culture of quality, healthy collaboration, and leading by example.
- Collaborate with our DevOps team to help build & maintain infrastructure important to data warehousing, & ETL processing.
- Build a monitoring tool and maintain data pipeline flows and performance.
- Process unstructured data into structured and clean data.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of Database systems (SQL, PostgreSQL) and ability to manage databases.
- A strong skillset of backend programming languages like Python.
- Knowledge of data warehousing solutions (We use AWS Redshift)
- Knowledge about source control software such as git and general command line knowledge
- Experience with ETL processes
- Experience working with Data APIs
- Interest in digital assets, crypto, and blockchain technologies.
- Experience in Business Intelligence products (We use Google Data Studio)
- Experience using development environments such as Docker