Lead Data Engineer (Remote)

The Position

Ballotpedia seeks a 100% remote, full-time Lead Data Engineer to help us expand our elections coverage.

Ballotpedia’s Tech team supports the organization in making high-quality political data and unbiased encyclopedic content available to the American public by improving many aspects of Ballotpedia’s web presence and the behind-the-scenes tools used by staff. This position will be tasked with enhancing our ability to mine and ingest political data and with technical leadership for our software developers, junior data engineers, and data engineering interns.

For example, we are interested in developing interfaces to pair human and computer transformations on messy data sets about candidates seeking election (names, dates, political parties, and similar). We are less interested in analytics at this time and are primarily focused on tools to help us acquire and clean data to be used as public-facing content.

The ultimate goal of...