Analytics Engineer

<p> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Loop sits in a rare position in post-purchase commerce: we have return and exchange data at a scale and depth that no one else can replicate. That asset only matters if we can make it useful, and that’s where this role lives.</span></p> <br> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As an Analytics Engineer at Loop, you’ll be the connective tissue between raw data and the analyses, dashboards, and data products that drive real merchant outcomes. Our data stack powers everything from self-serve analytics for our internal teams to the machine learning models that underpin Loop Intelligence, our merchant-facing insights layer. You’ll be building and maintaining the foundation that makes all of that possible.</span></p> <br> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In this role, you’ll work with meaningful autonomy, own new areas of the dbt project, and collaborate closely with your fellow analytics engineers, data analysts, data engineers, and the broader Data Team. You’ll also be expected to bring your own judgment: when to keep it simple, when something needs to be built the right way, and when to raise a flag.</span></p> <br> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We’ve laid out the experience we think is important to set you up for success in this role. But we appreciate that different humans will solve problems in different ways, so we don’t expect you to fit exactly in a box of requirements.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At Loop, we’re intentional about the way we work so that we can do our best work. We call this our Blended Working Environment. We work from our HQ in Columbus, OH, or one of our Hub or Secluded locations, and are distributed throughout the United States, select Canadian provinces, and the United Kingdom. For this position, we are looking for a teammate located in the United States.<br><br></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our Tech Stack</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">dbt, Snowflake, Hex, Fivetran, Streamkap, Secoda, GoodData, Gitlab</span></p> <p></p> <p></p><p><br></p><b>What You’ll Do:</b><div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Design, develop, and maintain production-quality dbt models with a focus on performance, readability, and long-term maintainability.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Translate business requirements into clean, well-documented data models that analysts and downstream consumers can rely on, including ownership of code reviews and our semantic and metrics layers.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Collaborate with Data Engineering on ingestion pipelines, Fivetran and Streamkap connectors, and architecture decisions upstream of modeling, with a practical understanding of Snowflake performance and warehouse costs.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Support a dbt contributor base that extends beyond the analytics engineering team, keeping Data Team contributors unblocked and helping them grow their skills.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Contribute to the data foundation behind Loop Intelligence, including merchant outcome measurement and shopper-level cohort analyses.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Apply data operations fundamentals across your work: Gitlab, CI/CD, automated testing, and documentation that make our data assets easier to discover and use.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Use AI tools actively in your workflow and help the team develop shared norms around where and how they add real value.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div><p><br></p><b>Your Experience:</b><div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3+ years of hands-on experience as an analytics engineer, data engineer, or equivalent.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">2+ years of experience working with dbt in a production environment, including models, sources, tests, and documentation.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Strong SQL skills and meaningful experience with data warehouse design (Snowflake experience is a plus).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Familiarity with data operations fundamentals: Git workflows, CI/CD, and automated testing applied to data.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Exposure to data engineering concepts, including ETL/ELT pipelines, connector tooling (Fivetran, Streamkap, or similar), and warehouse optimization.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Python experience for data transformation or automation tasks (nice to have, not required).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Business acumen in at least one functional area: Product, GTM, Finance, Marketing, or Customer Experience.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div><p><br></p><b>How You Work:</b><div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Self-managing. You don’t need someone to tell you what to do next, and you know when to ask for input versus when to just make a call.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Clear communicator. You can explain a data modeling decision to an engineer and to a non-technical analyst without changing what you actually mean.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pragmatic. You understand the difference between a solution that’s technically interesting and one that solves the problem and holds up over time.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Curious about AI. You’re already using AI tools in your work and thinking about how to get more out of them, not waiting to be told to.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Progress-oriented. You understand that rigor and risk scale together. Some solutions can be good enough to just make progress today, while others need to be reliable day in and day out.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div><p><br></p><b>Nice to have:</b><div> <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Experience with dimensional modeling and data warehousing concepts.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Experience building self-serve content in Looker, Hex, or GoodData for non-technical end users.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SaaS, e-commerce, or startup background.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0e101a;"> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Experience with project management and cross-functional execution.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div><p><br></p><p></p> <div>$105,000 - $140,000 a year</div><small><div> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We know that making decisions about your career and compensation is a huge deal. Because of that, we’re incredibly thoughtful about our compensation strategy. We want you to feel safe and excited, but also comfortable with the compensation package of a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">startup. We’ve outlined some important information for you here, but please know there’s a lot more to compensation than we can cover in this job posting. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>The posted salary range is the base salary for this opportunity. The salary range is subject to change, and may be adjusted in the future. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>The actual annual salary paid for this position will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to: your prior experience and skills related to the position, geographic location, company needs, current market demands, and your total compensation goals.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>Great humans deserve great benefits. At Loop, you’ll be eligible for benefits such as: medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible PTO, company holidays, sick & safe leave, parental leave, 401k, monthly wellness benefit, home workstation benefit, phone/internet benefit, and equity.</span></p> </div></small> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">#LI-JG1</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 24px">Loop Story</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Commerce should feel effortless. Every product adored, every order perfect, every customer loyal for life. But reality is messier: operations get tangled, margins grow thin, and trust is fragile. That’s where Loop steps in. We create confidence where commerce fails.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">We started by fixing returns and exchanges. Today, we’re building a connected commerce operations suite — powering everything from order tracking to fraud prevention, with hundreds of innovations in between. Grounded in data and insight, our platform helps merchants make smarter decisions with every transaction. Over 5,000 of the world’s most loved brands trust Loop to turn cost centers into growth engines. Our mission is simple: protect margins, delight customers, and help merchants build businesses that last.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Life at Loop is rooted in our core values. We balance high empathy with high standards, knowing that work is better when we can show up authentically and resilience is built by facing challenges head-on. We expect you’ll grow quickly, learning skills that last far beyond your time here. Loop is a formative chapter in your career — a chance to shape the future of commerce and to leave better than when you arrived.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">Learn more about us here: </span><a class="postings-link" href="https://loopreturns.com/careers"><span style="font-size: 16px">https://loopreturns.com/careers</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px">.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">You can review our privacy notice </span><a class="postings-link" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlgysomxuiH93NXYC33Q5wTj8rQ_q7A9/view"><span style="font-size: 16px">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16px">. </span></p>

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