Lead Data Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Data Analysis • $215,000 PA - $265,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Genies is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to build foundational data infrastructure for AI avatar and games technology. This role involves defining event structures, managing event taxonomies, and collaborating with product stakeholders. The Lead Data Engineer will design data storage architecture, select appropriate systems and tools, and build reliable data pipelines. Responsibilities include owning event definition and management, determining data storage architecture, leading decisions on data usage for business teams, building and maintaining data pipelines, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience, strong SQL skills, expertise in cloud data storage, and experience with analytics platforms.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering
  • Designing and implementing data pipelines
  • Expertise in SQL and data modeling
  • Familiarity with cloud data storage
  • Experience with analytics platforms
  • Excellent communication and collaboration
  • Proven ability to manage event tracking
  • Leadership experience mentoring engineers
Good to have:
  • Experience with modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Dagster)
  • Deep familiarity with data lakes
  • Experience in growth stage companies
Perks:
  • Learn from and grow with the team
  • Support for professional development
  • Shape career with innovative contributions
  • Flexible hours and work from home policy
  • Startup culture and perks with stability
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Competitive salaries
  • Unlimited paid time off and sick time
  • Paid parental leave, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • Health & wellness support
  • New, open-environment office space
  • Choice of MacBook or Windows laptop

Job Details

Genies is an AI avatar and games technology company powering the next generation of digital experiences through Smart Avatars. Genies' technology stack is rooted in empowering user generated content through the company's two main mantras:

“Anyone can create anything” & “Everything works with everything”

By combining these two guiding principles, individuals can craft limitless experiences while IP owners can build dynamic social gaming ecosystems powered by user-generated content (UGC) and AI Avatars—what Genies calls "Parties."

Genies' technology stack features a comprehensive suite of UGC tools that enable anyone to create AI avatars, complete with customizable fashion, props, behaviors, and personalities, as well as immersive AI avatar experiences. At its core is the Genies Avatar Framework, which leverages machine learning and computer graphics to ensure seamless interoperability across all user-generated AI avatars and experiences—unlocking boundless creative potential.

Early adopters of Genies’ first gen avatars include icons like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, J Balvin, Migos, and thousands more. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Genies has raised $200M from notable investors including Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger.

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer who is passionate about building the foundational data infrastructure that empowers teams to make smarter decisions and deliver exceptional user experiences. In this hands-on leadership role, you will define how events are structured and organized while collaborating with product stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment. You will design our data storage architecture, select the right systems and tools to enable business teams, and build high-quality pipelines that make data reliable and accessible.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own the definition and management of the structure for how events are created and organized, designing and maintaining event taxonomies, naming conventions, and guidelines while collaborating closely with product stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and product strategy.
  • Define and determine the architecture around how we use data storage services, evaluating, recommending, and implementing appropriate storage solutions such as data warehouses, lakes, or transactional stores with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Lead decision making on how data is used to empower business teams, for example by assessing and recommending analytics platforms to support self-serve product analytics and reporting, and guiding their integration with our broader data stack.
  • Build and maintain robust, performant, and secure data pipelines and ETL processes, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and maintainable code while working with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver features and improvements.
  • Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers, establishing best practices for data modeling, testing, monitoring, and documentation to raise the quality and reliability of our data engineering work.

 

What You Should Have

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field
  • Strong experience designing and implementing data pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Dagster)
  • Expertise in SQL, data modeling, and schema design for analytical workloads
  • Deep familiarity with cloud-based data storage solutions (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and data lakes
  • Experience evaluating and integrating third-party analytics platforms (e.g., Mixpanel, Amplitude)
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders
  • Proven ability to define and manage event tracking structures in large or growing products
  • Leadership experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction
  • Ideal if candidate has experience working in growth stage companies

 

Here's why you'll love working at Genies:

  • You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
  • You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
  • You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded 
  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Competitive salaries for all full time employees 
  • Unlimited paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
  • Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement 
  • Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide! 
  • Choice of MacBook or windows laptop

 

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