Senior Data Engineer

Acquisition.com is on a mission to make real world business education available to everyone.

At Acquisition.com, we don’t just hire for open roles—we hire for impact. If you’re exceptional at what you do and align with our core values: competitive greatness, sincere candor, and unimpeachable character, we want to know you.

Role:

The Senior Data Engineer will design, implement, and maintain integration and data flow solutions across all of Acquisition.com’s data endeavors. This individual will architect abstractions and connection frameworks to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficient data movement. With a lean, agent-driven development paradigm, you will take multiple initiatives from idea to delivery.

We are looking for someone who loves challenges of consistent value delivery, automating complex business processes, and continuously pushing for the betterment of the systems and architecture. With the use of technology we will make lives easier for others.

Must live in one of the states we’re registered to operate in: CA, FL, GA, IN, MI, MN, NV, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, WI.

Responsibilities:

• Write, test, and maintain data pipelines, automation frameworks, and shared TypeScript libraries.

• Develop integrations between internal and external systems through robust, reusable code.

• Build and maintain scalable abstractions and connection layers that unify data systems.

• Implement and optimize AWS-based infrastructure for storage, compute, and deployment.

• Ensure data accuracy, security, and accessibility through code-driven validation and monitoring.

• Continuously refine system architecture in code to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Collaborate with engineering, leadership, and business teams to deliver actionable insights from data.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building complex, high-impact systems.

• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain data pipelines, integration frameworks, and automation workflows.

• Proficiency in TypeScript for developing scalable services, shared libraries, and system integrations.

• Strong knowledge of databases, data architecture, and distributed systems, with the ability to translate data into actionable business use cases.

• Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

• Experience with agent-driven development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.

Results:

• Deliver seamless integrations that reduce manual work and improve system interoperability.

• Establish scalable data flows that support analytics, automation, and operational efficiency.

• Improve reliability and performance of core infrastructure through thoughtful design.

• Enable the business to leverage data across multiple contexts, driving better decision-making and innovation.

• Ensure the organization’s systems are cloud-optimized, resilient, and future-proof.

• Champion solutions that both deliver short term value while impacting the future.

Schedule:

• Work hours aligned with local timezone or Pacific timezone 8a-5p M-F

• Flexible to travel to Vegas on demand (~1-4 times a year)

• Must be flexible and able to work additional hours/weekends before workshop events/holidays if the situation warrants it

Location:

• Remote, USA

• Must live in one of the states we’re registered to operate in: CA, FL, GA, IN, MI, MN, NV, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, WI.

Compensation:

• $171,000 - $209,000 base salary

• The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below).

Benefits:

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision

• 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts with an employer match

• Monthly wellness allowance

• State of the art gym for employee use at HQ

Acquisition.com Core Values

Our core values are the heart and soul of this incredible company. The right person for this role will appreciate each of these values, personally subscribe to them, and understand why each is critical to having a great business.

Competitive Greatness

Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a hard challenge. Those who have the drive to constantly improve, the superior intellect and long term commitment to see incremental improvements become compounding returns.

Sincere Candor

Have the self awareness to accurately perceive and communicate hard truths that improve others and self, the courage to do so, and the humility to accept them, even when it hurts. Nothing great can be built without feedback: internally or externally.

Unimpeachable Character

Be the type of person with whom people are always proud to associate, personally and professionally. We look for true alignment of thoughts, words, and actions towards a goal worth pursuing.