Senior Analytics Engineer

Want to help us help others? We’re hiring! 

GoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves and each other. Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.

Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Analytics Engineer to join our newly created Analytics Engineering squad, part of the Data Platform team. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the mindset, standards, and best practices of building data products that become trusted and strategic assets across the company.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable, high-quality, and performant data models, implementing trusted metrics, and unlocking data-driven decision-making through reliable and well-documented data products. The models you build will be foundational pieces that will power AI-assisted discovery and insights generation.

This is a hybrid position. Candidates considered for this role will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Job

• Design and implement dimensional models and optimize transformations in our data warehouse.
• Drive alignment with stakeholders and data partners on metrics definitions and implementation
• Work with data engineers on required data ingestions and quality requirements 
• Build, test, and maintain scalable pipelines using dbt, ensuring quality, performance, and modularity.
• Manage workflows and CI/CD with GitHub and dbt Cloud.
• Implement and monitor data observability.
• Develop and maintain trusted metrics and semantic layers to ensure consistency across reporting.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation, standards, and naming conventions.
• Unlock analytics and reporting through our BI tools.
• Ensure scalability and performance when handling large data volumes.
• Contribute to data governance initiatives, ensuring compliance, privacy, and data quality.
• Work in an Agile environment, collaborating closely with engineers, analysts, scientists and business stakeholders.

You

• 7+ years in Analytics Engineering or similar roles (Data Analytics Engineer, BI Engineer, Data Modeler).
• Deep expertise in designing robust data models, including gold tables and semantic layers, to ensure consistent, trusted metrics across the organization.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt for building scalable, optimized data pipelines.
• Proven ability to implement best practices, standards, and documentation for reliable data modeling.
• Skilled at managing large-scale datasets while maintaining high performance.
• Excellent communicator, experienced in collaborating with cross-functional Agile teams.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with GitHub for version control and collaboration.
• Experience with data visualization tools (preferably Looker: LookML, Explores, Dashboards) and data monitoring platforms such as Metaplane.
• Familiarity with Hex.
• Knowledge of data governance concepts and frameworks.

Why you’ll love it here

• Make an Impact: Be part of a mission-driven organization making a positive difference in millions of lives every year.
• Innovative Environment: Work with a diverse, passionate, and talented team in a fast-paced, forward-thinking atmosphere.
• Collaborative Team: Join a fun and collaborative team that works hard and celebrates success together.
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Holistic Support: Enjoy financial assistance for things like hybrid work, family planning, along with generous parental leave, flexible time-off policies, and mental health and wellness resources to support your overall well-being.
• Growth Opportunities: Participate in learning, development, and recognition programs to help you thrive and grow.
• Commitment to DEI: Contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through ongoing initiatives and employee resource groups.
• Community Engagement: Make a difference through our volunteering and Gives Back programs.

We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose. Be a part of something bigger with us!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, or military or veteran status.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com. 

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Learn more about GoFundMe:

We’re proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about GoFundMe.org’s activities and impact in their FY ‘24 annual report.

Our annual “Year in Help” report reflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

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