Who we are.

For 20 years, our mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural and organic products to encourage healthier and more vibrant living. By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform, web, and mobile products. At the core of our work lies a passion to create a culture of sustainable health & wellness.

What you will do.

The SPINS Product and Technology teams include product development for internal and client-facing applications, data operations, data sourcing, master data, data science, custom reporting, design, engineering, data content quality and compliance. This position reports to the VP of Data Governance and will work on projects that cross multiple teams within the SPINS Product and Technology division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy prototype applications for internal use, such as data asset catalogs, data lineage and data dictionary.
• Pair with (XP) and share best practices with product development teams.
• Introduce data pipeline automation for continuous data quality audits and alerts
• Write scripts for one-time data-intensive analysis of new data sources or to provide data for data science teams
• Build a collection of Jupyter notebooks for data operations teams to use for data quality review and approval

 What You Bring

Education and Experience Requirements

• Demonstrated competence with large structured data sets, both relational and JSON
• High degree of proficiency with SQL including parallelized queries on partitioned data
• Experience with cloud-hosted data stores, databases, and other data serving layers
• Experience with low-latency APIs and high-volume/high-latency batch operations
• Ability to work with fast-moving Agile or XP software development teams
• Willing to learn and to use a variety of tools and languages to get the job done
• Python required; node.js preferred; GraphQL happily welcomed; some flavor of unix is a given.
• Expertise required in back-end data pipelines and data transformations
• Able to use CSS, content management, and metadata collections without panic

 Desired Attributes:

• Ability to work effectively without constant supervision and as a team player
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions quickly
• Effective verbal and written communication with co-workers
• Excellent time management and attention to detail skills
• Must be able to balance and prioritize requests from multiple people

The SPINS Way

• Direct – We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
• Determined – We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
• Passionate – We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
• Collaborative – We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.

Why SPINS?

• You resonate with the job description tone and style
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401k (Traditional and Roth) plus company match
• FSA for medical and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefit
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Bike storage
• Fresh and healthy snacks
• Vibrancy 360 Wellness Program: Yoga and fitness classes, onsite massage, volunteer opportunities, company happy hours, product demos, outings, and more.