Data Engineer

About US
Essentially Sports is a U.S.

-based digital sports media platform built for modern fandom. We go beyond headlines to shape narratives driven by athletes, fans, data, and culture, bringing equal intensity to mainstream sports and stories that are often overlooked. Ranked among the Top 10 sports media platforms in the U.S., we deliver 1B+ annual pageviews and engage 30M+ monthly active users, powered by a deeply data-driven, organic growth model that builds loyal, owned audiences  are evolving into a 360° sports media ecosystem—spanning high-impact journalism, original exclusives, podcasts, and a rapidly growing newsletter network with 700K+ engaged subscribers and industry-leading open rates.

Every format we create is designed to deepen our direct relationship with fans and drive long-term, sustainable growth.
At Essentially Sports, we move fast, think like owners, and build relentlessly for the fan first.

Responsibilities:
Owning Data Pipeline from Web to Athena to Email, end-to-end
You’ll make the key decisions and see them through to successful user sign up
Use Data Science to find real insights, which translates to user engagement
Pushing changes every week day
Personalization at Scale:
Leverage fan behaviour data to tailor content and improve lifetime value.

Requirements:
2+ years of professional data engineering experience
Someone who spends time thinking about business insights as much as they do on engineering
Is a self-starter, and drives initiatives
Is excited to pick up AI, and integrate it at various touch points
You have strong experience in data analysis, growth marketing, or audience development (media or newsletters? Even better).
Have an awareness about Athena, Glue, Jupyter, or intent to pick them up
You’re comfortable working with tools like Google Analytics, SQL, email marketing platforms (Beehiiv is a plus), and data visualization tools.
Collaborative and want to see the team succeed in its goals
Problem solving, proactive and solution oriented mindset, to spot opportunities and translate into real growth
Ability to thrive in startups with a fast-paced environment and take ownership for working through ambiguity
Excited to join a lean team in a big company that moves quickly

Perks:
Fully Remote Job
Flexible Working Hours
Freedom to own the Problem Statements, and make your own solutions
Play with the biggest dataset, as a function of working in a media org.
Work directly with the founding team
Release features at scale to Millions of Users on Day 1
Freedom to work on multiple and new technologies
Bi-annual offsites which are coined “epic” by the team!

The permissionless growth team is small, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders/founders who have built and led multiple product, tech, data and design teams, and grown Essentially Sports to a global scale.