We here at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX®, an interactive employee communications platform that happens to share some DNA (and a sense of humor) with the smash-hit trivia video game YOU DON’T KNOW ®, created by Jellyvision's founder. ALEX makes navigating tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits or improving your financial wellness—easier, faster, and more helpful, not to mention entertaining. The success of the ALEX platform has exceeded our wildest dreams, (except for the part right before we woke up where our mom was riding a giraffe), which is why we need talented folks like you to help us help ALEX take over the world…er…continue to grow and succeed.

SO WHAT'S THIS JOB ABOUT?

When our end-users interact with our applications, there are a lot of events being generated. It is super important to us and to our customers that we understand a user's experience. What path did their conversation take? Did they bail at any point? Do lots of people bail at that point? Given one answer to a question early in a conversation how do people answer later questions?

You, as a data engineer, will be responsible for how all this information flows into a data pipeline and data processing system (built by the data engineering team). Our business folks, and our customers have an ever-growing list of questions they'd like to answer about our users. Your job will be to make it possible to provide such answers in an efficient, accurate, and timely fashion.

You and the team will develop APIs for capturing and reporting on analytics events. You will be asked to define load processes, as well as perform general data crunching and mining, from manipulating data to generating reports on that data. And as with any mature engineering team, your team goal is to automate, automate, automate wherever possible/feasible.

In addition, many of our systems depend on well-conceived data models. You and your teammates will act as experts on data model design and help our other teams with their data modeling needs.

WHAT KIND OF TECHNICAL SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE? YOU KNOW, LANGUAGES AND SUCH...

• Python: Our language of choice is Python. We have some legacy systems in PHP and Ruby that we're looking to wind down in the coming year. Experience in any of these languages is a plus, but Python is really what we're after.
• Publish/Subscribe Eventing Frameworks: These frameworks are critical to maintaining a performance data pipeline. We expect you to have some experience in something like SQS or RabbitMQ. Don't worry if your favorite framework is a different one - if you understand how these systems work and what they do, we can teach you the specifics of the ones we use.
• ETL Frameworks: If you're a Data Engineer, then you must know about ETL frameworks like AWS Data pipeline, Airflow or Luigi. As with Pub/Sub frameworks, it's most important that you understand what these frameworks do, rather than knowing a specific one inside and out.
• RDBMS and NoSQL: When all is said and done, those bits and bytes have to go somewhere (CouchDB/MySQL/Postgresql/Redshift)!

Think you've got all the stuff above covered? Are you ready to do all of that and then some? If you've got a few years under your belt, then please tell us about some large projects you've worked on and the times you waded into a new project with your team and helped guide them through it.

Can you show solid examples of experience in systems like Hadoop or Spring Batch. (these are directions in which we are interested)?

Are you ready to provide direct guidance to clients and customers on how they can better understand their data? A senior engineer in this role should be able to put this data into useful contexts for our customers and guide them in their understanding around what they should capture and what it can tell them.

Can you understand how to scope and define initiatives to ensure we are providing the right solutions; define the work as well as implement it?

A senior engineer in this role will understand the tradeoffs with big data systems. Things like:

• Parallel processing systems
• Online versus offline processing
• NoSQL versus relational databases

ANYTHING ELSE?  Yes. We share a commitment to excellence and a desire to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere, so we only hire nice, bright, funny people who are willing to work hard.  Our credo is a simple one: be helpful. And we think we can be most helpful if our workforce is as diverse in thought, perspective, and culture as the people who use our products. We are looking to add amazing folks to our team who will bring diversity across many lines, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, sex, and country of origin.

ARE THERE ANY PERKS? Yes, we love perks.

• Competitive pay, 401(k) with matching, stock options and benefits. We pay 100% of the cost of premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for our employees (as long as you qualify for our tobacco-free discount; if you’re a tobacco user, your medical premiums will be higher than $0). We also cover a really nice chunk of the cost of premiums for spouse/dependent medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Casual dress and a flexible schedule. Come in a sweatshirt, jeans, whatever, like everyone else here.
• Creative work environment. We are lucky to work in a place that is full of intelligent, talented and innovative folks. Although most hours the place is deathly quiet (we're a focused bunch), this is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and general merriment, which makes a nice way to spend the day.
• Free food. Every week, we stock our kitchen with free healthy snack foods, and we have a catered lunch every other week to give people a reason to hang out and eat together.
• Easy transportation and lots of love for folks who bike to work. We’re really close to the North/Clybourn red line stop and the Halsted (#8) bus (right by the Apple Store and Mega Whole Foods too), and we have a transit FSA that allows you to dedicate pre-tax dollars to public transportation expenses. A number of our employees like to bike to work, so we also have bike storage, showers and lockers in the office.  And for those without their own bike in the city, we offer free divvy memberships – complete with Jellyvision bike helmets you can borrow from the office.
• Did we mention our yoga class? We bring a pro instructor right to the office. Fully subsidized by Jellyvision and fully optional, btw.
• Oh! And we have a massage chair. Not just any massage chair, my friend. It’s the HumanTouch HT 5320 WholeBody™ Massage Chair. Feeling a little stiff? Sit down. Relax. Feel better? Good. Okay, back to work. 

AND HOW DO I APPLY?

We look forward to hearing about you and what you do. Make sure your application includes:

• A cover letter that highlights three reasons you think you’d be great for the gig, focusing on how your past experience has prepared you for this kind of position. Writing is key to all we do, and we weigh cover letters heavily.  We love a cover letter that really shows us your personality (check out our company bios to see the wide range of personalities we’ve already got in house), but don’t stress if you’re not a comedian. You don’t have to be funny. Just be yourself. We’re mostly interested in learning who you are, what you love to do, and why you’d love to do it here with us.
• Your resume 

You will receive an auto-reply confirming that we've received your application.

Please know that every single application we receive is read by a real live human being. However that kind of thoughtful review takes time, so it may take us a little while to get back to you (but we will, we promise). In the meantime, NO FOLLOW UP PHONE CALLS OR EMAILS, PLEASE. It’s not that we don’t love hearing from you. It’s just that time spent responding to follow ups could be spent…well…reading your application. Please rest assured that if you received a confirmation from Recruiting Robot, we’ve got you’re application, and will get back to you really soon. We knew you’d understand.

If you still have pressing questions in the meantime, please feel free to check out our handy-dandy FAQ page!

Thanks for your interest in Jellyvision!