inKind is a restaurant commerce enablement platform that provides restaurants capital in exchange for food and beverage credits sold to diners through its app.
<p><strong><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Job Title: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Data Engineer</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Reports to:</strong> Senior Data Engineer</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Role Summary:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Data Engineering is a key role in the development team and is responsible for building and maintaining the AI-ready data foundation that powers inKind’s intelligent products, machine learning models, and large language model (LLM) applications. The position requires working across departments to build, operate, and optimize highly available data pipelines that feed analytics, ML training and inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.</span><br><br></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities: </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of the business’s data and AI platforms</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own architectural processes and decisions for various data models within the organization, including schemas, vector stores, and knowledge bases that support AI and LLM use cases</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design and operate feature pipelines, embedding pipelines, and evaluation datasets that support machine learning model training, fine-tuning, and continuous evaluation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work cross-functionally with various departments, including but not limited to: leadership, the development team, the finance team, and the data science team, in order to convert data into understandable information and AI-ready inputs for other professionals</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ensure implemented data and AI systems have relevant security, privacy, and data-governance controls — particularly around data flowing into and out of third-party LLM providers</span><br><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or any other technology related field. An equivalent of this educational requirement in working experience is also acceptable</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">5+ years professional database development experience, preferably as a Data Engineer in a fast-paced environment and complex business setting</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Expert level knowledge of SQL with focus on writing and optimizing queries</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Demonstrated experience building and maintaining reliable and scalable ETL/ELT using Snowflake, dbt, and AWS architecture</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML tooling and experience integrating with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Expert problem solving ability and maker’s mentality; vast experience designing & architecting new features and solutions from scratch — especially those that blend traditional data systems with AI-powered components</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Eagerness to discover innovative ways to work faster and more efficiently, including leveraging AI coding assistants and agents, while balancing competing concerns (tech debt, cost, security, complexity, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proactive communication, both written and spoken, and excellent ability to work well with others, in-person and remotely</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Courage when it comes to raising concerns and asking questions</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ability to stay up-to-date with new frameworks and tools — especially in the rapidly evolving AI/ML space — to speed up development, while keeping a sharp eye out for potential vulnerabili