Founding Data Engineer (Pricing/Comps)
clera · New York · remote
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage internet marketplace company to build the data systems behind reliable pricing estimates. You will turn noisy sold-listing data into trustworthy comparable items and pricing signals, working closely with computer vision partners.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and own scheduled ingestion pipelines for sold-listing data from multiple marketplaces and external sources.
- Develop entity resolution that links inconsistent listing text and images to canonical items.
- Create valuation logic that estimates prices from comparable sales, accounting for recency, condition, and the number of comps.
- Build production monitoring to identify data drift, fraud, stale comparisons, and other quality issues.
- Partner with computer vision teammates to define item matching across sources with varying levels of detail.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy options for data sources, licensing, and third-party pricing feeds.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 5 years of data engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale production ETL and data pipelines.
- Experience working with messy, adversarial data in marketplaces, pricing, fraud, or a similarly noisy domain.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with modern data tools such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, and Spark or similar technologies.
- Experience with entity resolution or record linkage at scale, and production data quality monitoring.
- Exposure to statistical estimation or pricing models, including regression-based comparable-sales logic.
- Experience ingesting data from multiple external sources and making technical build-versus-buy decisions.
- Pricing intelligence, data licensing, and early-stage startup experience are helpful.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $160,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
Hybrid role based in New York, New York.