[Hiring] Analytics Engineer @Homeward

Role Description

Homeward is looking for an Analytics Engineer to help build, strengthen, and scale the data foundation that powers decision-making across the business. This role is ideal for someone who is a confident, self-sufficient data professional with deep experience in data modeling and a passion for turning complex data into reliable, usable products.

• Own the health and reliability of our data pipelines, proactively identifying issues and implementing durable solutions to prevent ingestion failures and downstream disruptions.
• Design, develop, test, and optimize scalable dimensional data models and data marts using dbt.
• Structure data models around abstract business definitions, creating a reliable connection between business logic and technical implementation.
• Help architect our data environment for AI-readiness, ensuring data is structured, documented, governed, and accessible in ways that support emerging AI use cases.
• Evaluate and implement tooling and validation processes to ensure dbt models and AI-enabled data workflows produce accurate and trustworthy outputs.
• Partner closely with Product and Technology teams on internal application and system changes, identifying upstream and downstream data dependencies and minimizing disruption.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand analytical needs and translate them into scalable solutions within our analytics platform.
• Develop deep domain expertise across key areas of Homeward's business and serve as a technical point of contact for associated data models, metrics, and workflows.
• Establish monitoring, testing, documentation, and data-quality practices that improve confidence in our data.
• Identify opportunities to improve our overall data architecture and recommend practical solutions rather than waiting for requirements to be fully defined.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence, or a similar data-focused role.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and dimensional data modeling, with demonstrated experience designing scalable analytical datasets.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining production data models and semantic layers using dbt.
• Demonstrated experience owning or supporting data ingestion and transformation pipelines, including diagnosing failures and improving pipeline reliability.
• Experience designing data architecture that balances scalability, maintainability, usability, and business needs.
• Experience with AWS or a comparable cloud data environment.
• Experience with modern BI and analytics tools such as Looker, Hex, Tableau, or equivalent platforms.
• Working knowledge of Python and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Understanding of data governance principles, including metric definitions, data quality, documentation, lineage, and access.
• Familiarity with modern AI/LLM applications and AI-enabled data tooling, with an understanding of how data architecture needs to evolve to support AI use cases.
• Ability to translate business concepts and definitions into clear, maintainable technical models.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently investigate ambiguous or complex data issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Due to current team needs, we are only accepting candidates based in Latin America.
• This is intended to be a long-term contract position.
• It is not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship or relocation.

Benefits

• Contractor engagement.
• Competitive hourly rate.
• Computer reimbursement.
• Fully remote, LatAM-based, meaningful overlap with U.S. Central Time business hours.

Company Description

Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.

Founded in 2018 by Tim Heyl, Homeward aims to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.

We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries, grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus.