Underdog Fantasy
Underdog Fantasy is one of the fastest-growing fantasy sports companies on the market.
Senior Analytics Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
157 days ago
Salary
$160K - $190K / year
Bachelor Degree4 yrs expEnglishAirflowBig QueryCloudSQL
Job Description
• Build and maintain core dbt data models that turn raw data into clean, trusted, analysis-ready assets (e.g., User 360, Contest Fact, Marketing Attribution).
• Implement and manage a semantic layer (dbt MetricFlow, Omni, or equivalent) to standardize definitions of key metrics across the company.
• Own data quality and reliability, setting up automated testing, monitoring, and alerting frameworks.
• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists across Product, Marketing, Finance, and Ops to understand needs and deliver data models that scale.
• Contribute to self-service analytics enablement by making models discoverable in tools like Omni, Hex, and Sigma, and building user-friendly dashboards and explores.
• Champion software engineering best practices in analytics: Git workflows, code review, CI/CD for dbt, and reusable SQL patterns.
• Document business logic and metric definitions in a central data catalog, ensuring clarity and consistency.
Job Requirements
- SQL and data modeling expert, with 4+ years in analytics engineering, BI, or related data roles.
- Skilled in dbt and modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
- Experienced with semantic layers and BI tools (Omni, Looker, Sigma, Hex) to drive metric consistency.
- Comfortable with orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) and Git-based workflows.
- Detail-oriented with a passion for data quality and reliability.
- Strong communicator who can translate complex data models into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical partners.
- Collaborative teammate with a bias for action, comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents