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FiscalNote (NYSE: NOTE) is the leading technology provider of global policy and market intelligence. By uniquely combining AI technology, actionable data, and expert and peer insights, FiscalNote empowers customers with mission-critical insights and the tools to turn them into action. Home to CQ, Equilibrium, FrontierView, Oxford Analytica, VoterVoice, and many other industry-leading brands, FiscalNote helps organizations stay ahead of rapidly evolving political, corporate, and regulatory environments. To learn more about FiscalNote and its family of brands, visit FiscalNote.com and follow @FiscalNote.
FiscalNote seeks an experienced Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will help scale and improve our data processing capabilities by designing, building, and supporting services that handle one of the largest collections of policy and policymaker data, across many countries, levels of government, and commercial sectors, including large unstructured content in the form of video, audio, and text. Your role involves creating reliable systems that can provide this data in a timely and accurate way at scale, ultimately making it accessible and actionable. You will design systems that integrate and work closely with partners in applications and data science to provide our customers with an unprecedented level of automated analysis and reporting.
About the Engineering Team
The Data Engineering Team is responsible for the full lifecycle of open data in our Public Policy and Transcriptions products. We identify the datasets that we want to offer, then ingest, process, augment, store, and make them accessible to our clients and applications. We maintain the quality and usability of a rapidly growing collection of unstructured and structured data from frequently-brittle and obsolete external sources, mostly relating to policy and government action in the legislative and regulatory space. Our data powers multiple client-facing products and internal tools, and serves as the core foundation of FiscalNote’s success.
About You
You take pride in ambitious projects that push your limits, and enjoy collaborating with team members to overcome technical challenges. You are committed to seeing projects through to completion and prioritizing the best decisions for the team. Along the way, you’re capable of communicating what you’re thinking to both technical and non-technical audiences, taking in others’ ideas as well as expressing your own. You’re comfortable around ambiguity and with a high degree of autonomy, and are excited about solving complex, open-ended problems.
What To Expect In This Position
Design, communicate, and develop solutions to complex problems
Evaluate technical choices and their tradeoffs objectively, ensuring the best path forward for the team
Write robust, maintainable, and readable code
Identify opportunities to improve our codebase or reduce the complexity of our architecture
Build data services for batch and real-time data processing
Enhance monitoring tools for data pipelines’ health and data quality
Create and enhance internal tools used for data review and augmentation
Work with a full stack of technologies, including API services, databases, scheduled workers, queuing infrastructure, AI models, UI frontends, ELT pipelines, text search infrastructure, and more!
What Sets You Apart
3-5+ years of professional experience as an individual contributor in the software development industry, with a focus on backend or data engineering
Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL or MySQL)
Significant experience designing and developing within a networked architecture, using APIs and/or message-based communication
Proficiency with a version control system, especially git
Proven ability to both work independently and as part of a collaborative team
Have experience with a successful working relationship with Product + UI/UX teams
Experience working with automated test and/or build systems
Proficiency in Python preferred
Experience running production services on Linux preferred
Familiarity with a Cloud computing platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) preferred
Experience with containerization tools (especially Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Experience with document-based stores (NoSQL, JSONB, Elasticsearch) is a plus
Experience with Airflow is a plus
Experience writing and maintaining code in PHP is a plus
Familiarity with video and audio conversion tools like ffmpeg, yt-dlp is a plus
Required profile
Experience
Level of experience:Senior (5-10 years)
Industry :
Information Technology & Services
Spoken language(s):
English
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