Analytics Engineer, Core Data & Analytics

Ibotta is seeking an Analytics Engineer, Core Data & Analytics to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. This includes building the next iterations of the app, mobile, web, and extension experiences, new features driven by algorithms, and expert data engineering to enable the business to drive decisions using data.

As an Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for using the latest developments in data ETL, support strategy development, build state-of-the-art tools, and improve our future product developments. Data & Analytics are considered strategic assets here at Ibotta. In this role, you’ll have a direct impact by making data available and reliable for the Decision Science and Data Science team and making the delivery of our advanced analytics, models, and data products robust and technically sophisticated for business stakeholders.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado or with the option of full-time remote. Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Partnering and collaborating with other data related teams, including engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, and decision science, to represent data needs and best practices through the data development, validation, and managed process
• Understanding business logic to help document, test, and maintain datasets
• Managing new data requirements and developing solutions that minimize technical debt creation
• Proactively incorporating the knowledge of how Decision & Data Science solutions meet end customer needs into data preparation design and decisions
• Become an Ibotta Data Ninja, helping us organize and optimize our data for analysis
• Building automated altering and anomaly detection into data flow
• Identifying, validating, documenting, and testing events-based data for business utility in the data lake to help answer strategic questions
• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere
• Building UI and automation tools to enable data and analytics democratization throughout the company
• Ownership of multiple large projects end-to-end
• Deploying and maintaining data sets using Airflow
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Decision and Data Scientists to aggregate and normalize datasets for analysis
• Developing data sets with data quality principles in mind; creating standards and change management principles for events used in analytics workflows to ensure reliability

What we are looking for:

• An ability to develop solutions by applying data quality principles
• 3+ years of practical work experience in a data engineering role supporting an analytics team or equivalent experience as an analytics engineer or BI developer
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field required
• Experience identifying and troubleshooting data anomalies and pipeline issues
• In-depth experience with ETLing data
• Collaboration with SMEs to understand the business context of the data
• Ownership of data throughout its lifecycle
• Track record of successfully managing and updating cluster configurations to ensure workflow operation
• Ability to think creatively, provide thoughtful insights, and solve problems to answer business questions using data
• Proven experience with Python and SQL data wrangling

About Us:

Built in Denver, CO, Ibotta, Inc. ("I bought a...") is a free mobile shopping app that gives users cash back on groceries and more. Through our partnerships with brands and retailers like Procter & Gamble, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Amazon, Walmart, Target and Uber, we’ve delivered over $1.25B in cumulative cash rewards to our Savers. Guided by our values and our mission to make every purchase rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we get to build, and the people we get to innovate (and have fun) with. Ibotta made Inc.’s 2020 list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we became the first mobile consumer technology company in Colorado to achieve $1B in valuation.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com

Additional Details:

• Base compensation range: $100,000 - $135,000. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.
• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• This position is located in Denver, CO or with the option of full-time remote and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, 401k match, and equity.
• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard with race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

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