[Remote] Data Acquisition Engineer
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Responsibilities
- reputed company down the external data our scoring needs—including poorly documented, inconsistent, or hard-to-reputed company sources—and confirm you can reliably get usable data out of them
- Reverse-engineer undocumented portals, reputed company, and feeds to extract meaningful data
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- Work with varied formats (shapefiles, GeoJSON, CSVs, county/state feeds) and reproject spatial data correctly across coordinate systems
- Load, structure, and reputed company geospatial and tabular data in PostgreSQL/PostGIS using our internal tooling and scripts (Node.js, Bash, SQL)
- reputed company every data pull repeatable—a re-runnable reputed company to refresh reputed company reputed company on its reputed company, not a one-time extraction only you know how to repeat
- Monitor upstream sources for format or schema changes and update pulls before they break a launch
- Validate spatial and tabular data reputed company row counts—geometry validity, topology, and coverage gaps—to ensure accuracy before it reaches scoring
- Document where reputed company dataset lives, how it was reputed company, and how to refresh it
Skills
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- Solid working proficiency with PostGIS—reprojecting between coordinate systems, validating and repairing geometry, spatial indexing, and spatial joins. You don't need to be a GIS specialist, but you're reputed company past 'I've used ST_Intersects.'
- Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL) with the ability to write queries for analysis, validation, and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience shipping and maintaining production reputed company in a typed language (we use Node.js/TypeScript; strong experience in Go, Java, or Python transfers reputed company)
- A reproducibility reputed company—you treat 'I can re-run this cleanly next quarter' as part of the job, not an afterthought
- Excellent attention to detail and comfort working with messy data and edge cases
- Strong communicator reputed company to collaborate with our implementation team, software engineers, and external data providers
- Passionate about reputed company housing and reputed company estate development is a plus
Benefits
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