Data Technician (Full- Or Part-Time)

The Role:

The Data Technician role is an entry-level position suitable for someone looking to break into the startup/big data world and gain experience working with top tier data scientists and software engineers, helping clean and manage the data used in our models.

Data Technicians are responsible for building and maintaining our database of over 1 million points of interest where we track foot traffic trends for our clients. Duties include researching property lists, drawing polygons around specific property locations, cleaning meta data, and answering queries on specific properties/ companies we cover. Opportunities to code and build tools to assist with efficiency are available.

Requirements:

• Proactive in improving existing methods/tools
• Flexible, part-time work schedule (students welcome)
• Compensation includes Competitive Salary + Benefits + Equity
• Detail-oriented personality
• Pandas, PostgreSQL
• Python, JavaScript, HTML
• Responsible and reliable
• Qualifications:
  • Detail-oriented personality
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proactive in improving existing methods/tools
  • Responsible and reliable

  Technical Skills (highly preferred but not required):

  • Python, JavaScript, HTML
  • Pandas, PostgreSQL
  • Web scraping

  Why Thasos?

  Winner – “Best Alternative Data Provider, 2018” Inside Market Data

  Winner – “Best Overall Buy-Side Product, 2017” Waters Technology

  Thasos is an alternative dataintelligence firm based in New York City. Founded in 2011, Thasos created their initial business model as part of the MIT Media Lab, a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to aggregate anonymized geolocation data from mobile phones to support financial investing. By converting real-time mobile phone location data into actionable information, the company aims to significantly improve transparency into businesses, markets, and economies worldwide.

  • Flexible, part-time work schedule (students welcome)
  • Company-sponsored lunch every Thursday
  • Regular company outings (happy hours, hikes)
  • Compensation includes Competitive Salary + Benefits + Equity

  Positions are in Manhattan with an immediate start date.

• Company-sponsored lunch every Thursday
• Web scraping
• Excellent communication skills
• Regular company outings (happy hours, hikes)

Please send your resume in PDF format to [email protected] to apply