Senior Data Engineer at Growth Minded - Remote Global — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Location Freedom: Growth Minded is headquartered remotely and explicitly open to candidates "anywhere in the world," making this a genuinely location-independent role. The only recurring time commitment is a daily product sync — the timezone for this is not specified, so be sure to clarify this during screening, as it could significantly impact your flexibility if you're based in Southeast Asia or the Americas.
Async-Friendliness: The job description emphasizes communicating "clearly across time zones in writing," which is a strong signal of async-first culture. Architecture decisions and specs are expected to be self-directed and written down — great for nomads who prefer deep work blocks.
Salary vs. Nomad Destinations: The $45–60K base (plus revenue-share) stretches very well in popular nomad hubs:
- Chiang Mai, Thailand: Comfortable living at ~$1,200–1,500/month — this salary easily covers 3–4x that.
- Medellín, Colombia: ~$1,500–2,000/month for a good quality of life; strong nomad community and good internet.
- Lisbon, Portugal: ~$2,500–3,000/month — tighter margin but doable; Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa is a strong option for longer stays.
Visa Considerations: With worldwide eligibility, you can leverage digital nomad visas in Portugal, Spain (Non-Lucrative), Costa Rica, or Barbados. Short-term tourist visas work for most APAC and LATAM countries for 90-day rotations.
Headquarters: Remote
URL: https://growthminded.co
About the Role
You'll own the data layer underneath InsightsOS and EngageOS, the products that turn booking, CRM, ad, and financial data from multi-location brands into proactive insights and automated actions. Today that layer is built and maintained by our product lead alongside two full-stack engineers. We need someone who owns it end to end: architecture, modeling, pipelines, and the analytical models on top. You'll report to our product lead and work directly with the founder.
Compensation: $45–60K plus revenue-share bonus (we profit share every month)
What You'll Do
- Design and own the semantic layer and aggregation architecture across clients with 2 to 250 locations each.
- Build and maintain pipelines from sources like Mindbody, Zenoti, Boulevard, Mariana Tek, Domo, QuickBooks Online, GA4, Google Ads, Meta, and Klaviyo.
- Develop trend, utilization, and propensity models that power proactive insights and lifecycle triggers.
- Work with Claude Code and AI-assisted tooling as a core part of your workflow, not an afterthought.
- Establish data quality, governance, and row-level security patterns as we move into multi-tenant, franchise-level reporting.
- Self-direct discovery and architecture decisions, and write clear technical specs the rest of the team can execute against.
- Join a daily product sync with the product lead and engineering team.
Who You Are
- 2+ years in data engineering with real ownership of a production analytics platform.
- Deep in SQL and Python, strong with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework, warehouse design (BigQuery, Postgres), and orchestration.
- Experience with semantic or metrics layers and aggregation at scale — you've solved the "same metric, different answers" problem before.
- Practical ML: propensity scoring, forecasting, and anomaly detection in a product context.
- Comfortable making architecture calls without a spec handed to you, and communicating clearly across time zones in writing.
- Bonus: multi-location, franchise, or subscription business data; marketing or CRM integrations; multi-tenant SaaS.
Why This Role
- Full ownership of a product vertical, not a ticket queue.
- Small team, direct impact — your models show up in client revenue within weeks.
- Build the cross-client data asset that is central to our strategy.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/growth-minded-senior-data-engineer
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