About the RoleThis role is equal parts strategic thinking and hands-on execution. As a Lead Analytics Engineer, you'll be a technical anchor for the team: shaping architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and driving initiatives that improve both the health of our data systems and the business outcomes they enable. You'll operate at company scope, influencing cross-functional roadmaps and setting the bar for what great analytics engineering looks like at Apartment List.
Responsibilities- Design data solutions end-to-end: evaluate architecture options, articulate tradeoffs, and deliver production-ready, testable, maintainable code.
- Influence and evolve the team's data architecture standards by researching, testing, and implementing modeling and tooling best practices, and analyzing the technical risks and long-term implications of key decisions
- Proactively find and execute on high-value tech health and business opportunities before they're on anyone's roadmap
- Actively participate in business measurement discussions, communicating both the value and structural limitations of proposed metrics
- Mentor AEs and analysts with targeted feedback and specific growth expectations; enable the broader team through documentation, process development, and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to roadmap and goal-setting as a decision-maker
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, anticipating blockers and scope changes before they require escalation
Qualifications- 7+ years in analytics engineering or a closely related data role, with a track record of end-to-end technical ownership across architecture, delivery, and long-term maintenance.
- Expert SQL: performant at scale, structured for readability, and built to handle edge cases.
- Advanced dbt, including building team practices around testing, documentation, and modularity
- Proven data architecture decisions with lasting structural impact
- Enabled others through mentorship, code review, process, or tooling
- Easily explain data architecture tradeoffs to both engineers and business stakeholders in the same conversation
- Deep ELT/ETL knowledge with strong instincts for observability and failure recovery
- CI/CD in a data context, including automated testing pipelines and deployment validation
- Bonus: Ownership of BI tools as a product, including semantic layer health and cross-team data model standards
- Bonus: 2+ years working with performance marketing and frontend eventing data
CompensationWe carefully consider a variety of factors to determine compensation for each position, including the role, level, and work. The US Total Target Compensation (TTC) for this position is:
- Tier 1: $165,000 to $200,000 (Base: $148,500 to $176,000)
- Tier 2: $153,000 to $185,000 (Base: $137,700 to $162,800)
- Tier 3: $141,000 to $170,000 (Base: $126,900 to $149,600)
Here's what's in it for you (full-time US based employees only; does not apply to contract roles): - Competitive Compensation: Including annual salary, pre-IPO stock options, and other financial compensation (if applicable)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: 100% of premiums covered for you AND all of your dependents
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off: Unlimited FTO in addition to 12 company holidays per year, quarterly "recharge" days, and a week-long holiday break
- Home Office Reimbursement: To cover home office furniture and supplies, monthly home internet, and monthly cell phone (if applicable)
- Health & Wellness Reimbursement: To cover monthly gym membership or other qualifying expenses
- Parental Support: Generous parental and family leave, fertility benefits, and employer-sponsored stipends towards family forming services
- 401k Plan: To support you in your individual retirement goals
- Team Events: Frequent team-building events, fun team off-sites, and bi-annual company meetups
- Commitment to DEI: To prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within our workplace and to stay true to our values and mission
- Mentorship and Training: To get you onboard quickly, learn new professional skills, and invest in your career development
- Impact and Visibility: To expose you to and provide the opportunity to work on highly strategic initiatives that will transform the business
- Encouragement and Empowerment: To explore and adopt new technologies and drive meaningful decisions and outcomes
