Business Intelligence Engineer II

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days.

Redfin is redefining real estate in the consumer’s favor by combining our own technology and agents to create a service that’s better, faster, and costs less. As a Redfinnian, you'll make a difference in one of life’s most important events—buying or selling a home. Our hiring standards are high, yet our culture is humble. We’ve got all the perks, but if what you value most is doing great work in a creative, collaborative, and disciplined environment, join us.

As a Business Intelligence Engineer, you’ll use some of the most robust real estate data in the world to build tools and answer important questions about the American housing and rental market related to housing and economic policy, personal finance, urban planning, and other current events. This role works closely with the communications team and your work product will be featured in top national publications, such as the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and you would be a part of the national dialogue on the housing market.  This role will also work with our content marketing team on initiatives that improve Redfin’s SEO and drive traffic to Redfin.com.

The Role

• Own the automated processes that create Redfin’s housing market data from various internal and external data sources

• Work with our economics team to develop and deploy a suite of self service tools, including Tableau dashboards, to share our housing market data with internal and external audiences

• Create custom pulls from existing data sources to drive media reports and support content marketing goals

• Become an expert on the architecture of the data sources that the economics team relies on

• Work our stakeholders to troubleshoot data anomalies

• Work with engineering teams to bring additional data to the economics team

Desired Skills & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, computer science, mathematics, operations research, or a related field and 2+ years of experience

• Advanced SQL (including performance tuning) and Python skills

• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Looker as well as Git

• Experience using AI code generation tools tools such as Snowflake Intelligence and GitHub CoPilot, strongly desired

• Understanding of data lake/warehouse architectures such as BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.

• Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow and statistical software packages such as R a plus

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with both engineers and non-engineers

• Experience with data modelling and requirements gathering

• Housing-market and economics experience is a plus but not required

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable disclosure requirements.

Base Pay Range: $74,400.00 - 111,300.00. Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include bonuses and equity.

We offer a generous benefits package including flexible vacation that supports the importance of time away from work for rest and relaxation, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick leave (accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked), medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Programs, and 401(k) employer match.#LI-Hybrid

Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce.

A diverse, inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We’re proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.

Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact [email protected]

Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.

Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.