Data Integrations Engineer

Who we are

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.

Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 15+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that lead the education technology industry. This growth has been driven by our strong product-market fit, deep understanding of education, and commitment to customer success.

About the role

As a data integrations engineer, you will operate across both engineering and customer success teams to ensure that customers can integrate with and leverage our scheduling technology for their needs. You’ll work closely with customer success team members to own a portfolio of clients who wish to integrate with Timely for their scheduling needs. Additionally, you will devise the architecture and patterns to generalize and scale the process of reliable integration across many clients, reducing the cost of such integrations over time. Finally, as an early engineer on this team, you’ll be responsible for establishing the culture and patterns that allow us to grow the team over time to serve even more customers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the ingestion, transformation, and export of data between district systems and the Timely data model and product.

• Partner with customer success, SIS representatives and district IT staff to plan out requirements for integration of a customer.

• Meet with customers as needed to execute integration workflows and troubleshoot any challenges. Some travel may be required.

• Work with the broader engineering team to generalize the process of data ingestion and export from customer systems.

• Work with customer service to establish processes and institutional knowledge around data integrations with different districts.

• Support efforts to grow the team and onboard new team members to serve more customers.

What we look for in candidates

Required Qualifications

• Prior experience successfully implementing data ingestion, transformation, cleaning and export through a variety of means (ranging from CSV-based integrations to service APIs).

• Experience with at least 1 programming language (we predominantly use Python & Typescript) and 1+ years of experience with data query & analysis technologies (SQL, Python Pandas, etc.) in a client-facing capacity. Exposure to these technologies in production environments is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging communication and collaboration skills to work with customers and cross-functional team members.

• Ability & excitement to step into an early (seed-stage) startup role, with urgency of execution, breadth of responsibilities and opportunities for growth that come with it.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with mentoring, interviewing and growing technical team members.

• Experience working with school and district data as an educator, administrator or IT staff member. We’re particularly excited about candidates who have familiarity with school scheduling systems and SIS platforms.

• Located in New York City or Boston metropolitan areas (role is remote but with regular in-person gatherings)

Benefits we offer

• Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO

• Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.

• Be part of a growing, mission-oriented company with a proven product.