Plusgrade powers the global travel industry with its portfolio of leading ancillary revenue solutions. Over 200 airline, hospitality, cruise, passenger rail, and financial services companies trust Plusgrade to create new, meaningful revenue streams through incredible customer experiences. As an ancillary revenue powerhouse, Plusgrade has generated billions of dollars in new revenue opportunities across its platform for its partners, while creating enhanced travel experiences for millions of their passengers and guests. Plusgrade was founded in 2009 with headquarters in Montreal and has offices around the world.

Points is looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team for a permanent position.

We’re an industry-leading web-based organization that is continuously reshaping how consumers interact with their loyalty programs. We work with the world’s largest airline, hotel, financial, and retail rewards programs, to tackle complex challenges and come up with innovative e-commerce solutions; with the Data Engineering team playing a critical role in. If you’d like to be a part of it, we’d love to hear from you.

Reporting to the Team Lead, Data Engineering, you will:

• Work in a scrum-based team that is passionate about enabling a data culture throughout the organization.

• Design and develop scalable and robust pipelines for data consumption by downstream applications in support of advanced analytics, AI/ML products, and system interoperability. 

• Improve upon existing data processing mechanisms through automated testing and monitoring, to continually enhance data integrity and accuracy.

• Actively participate in solution design and modeling to ensure data products are developed according to best practices, standards, and architectural principles.

• Foster collaboration and innovation in order to deliver high-quality autonomous data products.

• Support production systems to deliver a high degree of data availability, consistency, and accuracy.

• Excellent hands-on experience in working with SQL and NoSQL data sets.

• Proficiency in implementing and supporting Snowflake features and functions.

• Hands-on experience using orchestration tools such as Airflow, or ETL tools such as Talend.

• Hands-on experience with implementing event-driven or real-time analytics architecture services.

• Proficiency in developing data products using python, SQL, and Java.

• Understanding of modern data warehouse concepts and data modeling, i.e. Datalakes, streams, etc.

• Working knowledge of DevOps principles such as CI/CD.

• Working knowledge of Cloud Computing, especially AWS services.

• Self-disciplined, eager to help, and most importantly a thirst for continual learning.

• Data consumer-focused, constantly driven to exceed stakeholder data and information needs.

• Effective communicator and collaborator, within the immediate team as well as across other organizational units.

🏦 RRSP/401(k) Matching 

🏥 Comprehensive Health Plans 

📅 Unlimited Vacation/PTO

✈️ Travel Experience Credit 

🧘 Annual Wellness Credit 

🥗 Team Events and Monthly Lunches

💻 Home Office/Commuter Credit 

🌅 Work From Anywhere Program

🍼 Parental Leave Top Up 

🌍 Adventure Pass

Plusgrade is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law. Upon request, we will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

We believe in diversity and inclusivity and that is why our interview process is designed for a positive candidate experience and to ensure every candidate is evaluated equally. All applications will be reviewed by our Talent Team and the successful candidate(s) will go through the following recruitment process:

• Recruiter Phone Interview 

• Hiring Manager Interview

• Take-home Assessment or remote coding exercise (if applicable)

• Team Interview 

All candidates will be provided with feedback regardless if they pass or didn’t pass any of our interview stages. All your information will be kept confidential.