Senior Data Engineer

About Minga
Minga means community. It’s the belief that we achieve more together than we ever could alone. At Minga, joining our team isn't just about a new role, it's about joining a collective that is deeply invested in your growth, your impact, and your connection to the people around you.
We’re building the Student Behavior Platform schools can’t live without, and we’re having fun doing it.
We are a tight-knit group of curious, low-ego humans who genuinely enjoy the "we" over the "me."
Supportive Growth: You aren’t on an island. You’ll have the autonomy to do your best work and a community that has your back every step of the way.
Shared Ownership: Whether at our Kelowna HQ or remote, you’re a vital part of a team that cares as much about the people as the product.
Real Impact: Everything we do supports the educators and students we serve, creating a ripple effect of connection in schools everywhere.
Ready to be part of the community?
Come help us make school life better for everyone. 💙
The Role
We’re not just hiring for a position, we’re adding a teammate
As a Senior Data Engineer at Minga, you’ll own the data platform that turns our product and business data into something 2,000+ schools, and every team at Minga, can trust. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of Platform & SRE, you’ll give our Snowflake, Stitch and Metabase stack a real owner: modelling standards, orchestration, data quality, cost and access control. Over the next year you’ll also become the data lead for the ground-up rebuild of our platform.
This is a senior individual contributor role with big impact. You’ll own our data platform, influence how we grow, and help build the high-performance teams that make Minga a place people love to work.
What You’ll Do 🚀
Own ingestion end to end: harden or replace our current Stitch pipelines and bring proper orchestration to a stack that runs on good intentions today
Introduce and own a modelling layer (dbt or equivalent) with versioning, tests and review that our RevOps analysts can build against without slowing down
Define and enforce access, retention and PII-handling standards across Snowflake and Metabase. We hold student-level data and we treat it that w

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No