Data Engineer

Binti HQ - San Francisco, CA · Remotefull timeRemote

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senior

$200k–$300k

H1B: no

Binti The Data Engineer at Binti designs and builds the data transformation layer powering agency reporting for child welfare software. This role ensures data correctness, security compliance, and supports analytical needs aligned with product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Design and build the transformation layer
Build the transformations that turn internal models into clean analytical tables
Make deliberate modeling choices: conformed dimensions, sensible grain, stable and human-readable naming, documented semantics, consistent handling of dates, statuses, and soft deletes
Build for correctness under our security model, preserving authorization scoping and permissions logic
Establish monitoring and alerting for data freshness and quality
Anticipate analytical needs
Design reporting architecture in tandem with the core product lifecycle, ensuring the data model makes sense
Support patterns including time series, cohorts, aging and time-in-status, compliance windows, and point-in-time snapshots
Build the reusable pieces that can be composed to meet future needs
Own reporting for a module, end-to-end
Make sure the BI data model can express the module’s complex requirements
Build stock and customer-specific reports, and enable the customer launch team to support customers

Qualification

Strong SQL skillsSkilled in requirements translationEager

Required

5 to 10 years of software engineering experience, with a primary specialty in data and secondary specialty in backend web software
Strong SQL skills, can reason about a large online application schema. You are seasoned in dimensional modeling. You have opinions about grain and naming and can defend them.
Experience building and maintaining transformation pipelines with tests, documentation, and lineage. Not one-off scripts.
Skilled in requirements translation. You can sit with a government program person describing a compliance report, understand what they actually need, and come back with a data model that supports it
Experience with a modern BI tool and its modeling layer (eg. Looker, Sigma, Power BI)
You document and build reusable assets and self-service tools that empower others
Comfortable with ambiguity and crossing into adjacent areas of the stack. As the first dedicated person in this function, you will define the practice and how it interfaces with related teams
Eager, curious, and proactive in using modern AI tooling to accelerate engineering delivery end to end
Passionate to use technology to improve outcomes for children and families in the child welfare system