Data Engineer

United States
Product & Technology /
Full-Time /
Remote
Compensation: $90,000-110,000k + 10% annual bonus 
Eligibility: Inspiration is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role 
Location: This role is remote eligible. 
That being said, if you like working with other colleagues in an office, we have offices in Washington, D.C., and N.Y.C., and we'd be thrilled if you wanted to join us in the office three days a week (our colleagues in those offices work at home two days a week).  

To Learn More
Please watch THIS video produced by one of our primary investors, Macquarie, that does a great job explaining who we are and what our fantastic team does. Our new website also has lots of great content! 

About Us: 
Inspiration Mobility is the first Electrification AcceleratorTM - a company wholly committed to driving decarbonization in North America through electrification. Inspiration provides tailored, turnkey solutions that enable our customers and partners to achieve their business and sustainability goals as quickly as possible, with minimal risk. As the only EV-first Fleet Management Company (eFMCTM), Inspiration is your one partner to simplify fleet electrification - delivering vehicle leasing, EV-first fleet management services, and fully financed charging solutions. 

Your Mission:  
Your mission, as an early member of our Data Team, is to ensure the quality of our software products help catapult our business to the next level. They include a web app for fleet managers, a mobile app for drivers, and various APIs and tools to surface and process data.

You’ll report to our Director of Engineering, Rafael Kennedy, and collaborate with our lead Data Scientist, Suneeta Kartha

The Legacy You’ll Leave: 
As a result of your time in this role, you made sure we had up-to-date information from many key data sources to make important decisions. You produced insightful commentary about data, of which we gathered and built data-centric services that delighted our customers and encouraged them to make the switch to electric vehicles faster than they would have otherwise.

Outcomes You’ll Deliver:

    • Continue building out robust pipelines to ingest data from various sources knowing that more data pipelines will be built over time  
    • Transform large datasets to clearer, performant datasets that can be leveraged by multiple tools at the company  
    • Collaborate with our Product team and Engineers to provide the data foundation that provides our customers services  
    • Ensure consistent adherence to robust data practices by actively overseeing data quality, implementing checks and monitoring throughout development stages, and ensuring documentation remains current while driving ongoing enhancements

Who You Are:

    • You have 2 years' experience working as part of a data team 
    • You are very comfortable in SQL. You can write complex queries involving window functions, Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and elaborate joins
    • You know enough python to perform complex analyses. You know how to perform complex calculations on pandas dataframes 
    • You are familiar with git. You know never to force push to main
    • You are familiar with advanced database functionality, with Snowflake a plus. You are confident that by looking at documentation, you could implement UDFs, Dynamic Tables, and Materialized Views
    • You have familiarity with Extract, Transform & Load (ETL or ELT) processes and experience with transporting or localizing data to a central data store. You have experience calling an API and inserting that data into a data store
    • You are constantly looking for areas to improve company confidence in data, be it lowering latency, creating checks on data or increasing data readability. You know that a one to many join can be messy and you can implement a check to ensure that whatever query joins them maintains uniqueness 
    • You’re a go-getter, who will try new things, read documentation, break stuff, and figure out how to fix it 
    • You are energized and passionate about our mission to contribute to climate solutions by accelerating the electric vehicle transition
$90,000 - $110,000 a year
Our Core Values: 
Inspiration’s culture is based on a shared respect for our core values described HERE. Fit with these values is a critical component of our hiring process, and employees are expected to demonstrate these behaviors in their interactions with colleagues, customers, and all stakeholders. An assessment of how each employee has exhibited our values is an important part of our performance review process.  

Our Commitment To You: 
Inspiration embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the greater our impact will be!