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We're a nationally scaling personal injury firm built for impact and growth - owning the client experience end-to-end, from marketing and intake through litigation. We believe that world-class marketing, paired with exceptional legal talent and operations, creates better experiences and outcomes for clients and the business alike.\nOver the past three years, we've grown 2-3x year over year, setting a new standard on the marketing side of the personal injury space and proving what's possible when strategy, speed, and execution align. Now we're applying that same discipline and innovation to firm operations, case management, and national scale - intentionally building the infrastructure, systems, and teams to grow without sacrificing quality, culture, or accountability.\nWe are a fully remote team that share trust, open communication, and a commitment to doing great work. If you love ownership, thrive in a fast-moving environment, and want to help build something exceptional, you'll feel right at home here.\nThe Opportunity\nWe're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to own a business domain's data end-to-end, with a specific mandate: be the person who makes ingestion reliable and the numbers trustworthy.\nYou are expected to be the trusted authority on getting data in correctly and proving it's right for your division. You'll partner closely with the Director of Data to turn platform strategy into reliable production systems, and own the day-to-day reliability, performance, and scalability of what you build.\nWhat You Will Own\nIngestion, End-to-End\nDesign and build how source data lands - third-party connectors, APIs, webhooks, file drops, CDC and batch loads.\nMaster API-based ingestion: authentication and token-refresh flows (OAuth2, API keys), pagination, rate-limit handling, retry and backoff, and reconciling incremental/paginated pulls into complete, correct datasets.\nOwn schema-drift handling, incremental vs. full-refresh strategy, idempotency and replayability, backfills, and late/duplicate-record handling.\nData Quality as a First-Class Deliverable\nBuild the tests, contracts, and monitoring that let stakeholders trust the numbers: freshness and volume checks, schema/type enforcement at the boundary, referential and uniqueness constraints, reconciliation against source-of-truth, and anomaly detection on business-critical metrics.\nEnsure failures surface loudly and early - caught at the boundary, not discovered in a dashboard three days later.\nFull Domain Delivery\nDeliver the full pipeline for your domain: ingestion config, raw landing, dbt staging and mart models, data-quality tests, orchestration DAG, and runbook.\nStakeholders own the business definitions; you own translating them into correct, tested transformations - and you own the documentation that makes those definitions authoritative, traceable, and fuels our AI-ready environment.\nArchitecting an AI-Ready Single Source of Truth\nDesign domain data so it's clean, consistently grained, well-documented, and semantically unambiguous - the kind of SSOT that both dashboards and AI/agent-driven consumers can query reliably, without hidden business rules or hallucination.\nTreat documentation and metric traceability as part of the deliverable, not an afterthought.\nPlatform Reliability & Performance\nImplement monitoring, alerting, and observability across your pipelines and their platform dependencies.\nEnsure data freshness and system uptime meet defined service expectations; optimize pipeline performance, compute utilization, and system efficiency.\nEngineering Standards\nMaintain version-controlled data infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for your pipelines.\nSet the reference implementation others follow - especially for ingestion and DQ, where the team currently lacks a pattern.\nMentorship & Collaboration\nReview other engineers' work, pair on hard problems, and raise the team's bar - senior impact shows up through others, not only your own commits.\nTranslate business needs into data solutions directly with your domain's stakeholders; understand not just how to build it but why the business needs it built that way.\nWhat You Bring\nRequired:\n5+ years building and maintaining production data pipelines.\nExpert-level dbt - staging/mart architecture, incremental models, tests, macros, documentation, and exposures. This is non-negotiable.\nMastery of API-based data ingestion - authentication and token-refresh (OAuth2, keys), pagination, rate limiting, retry/backoff, and assembling incremental pulls into complete, correct datasets.\nDemonstrated expertise across other ingestion source types (webhooks, files, databases/CDC), including schema drift, idempotency, backfills, and incremental loading.\nA strong track record designing data-quality frameworks - not a handful of not_null tests, but freshness/volume/reconciliation/anomaly checks and the alerting around them.\nStrong Python for custom extraction, loading, and tooling - able to build and maintain production ingestion code, not just glue scripts.\nFluent SQL and hands-on experience with a modern cloud data warehouse (BigQuery or Snowflake preferred; comparable considered ).\nExperience architecting a clean, documented, AI-ready single source of truth that downstream analytics and AI consumers can trust without hidden logic.\nExperience with orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, or dbt Cloud jobs) and with Git in collaborative development environments.\nWho Thrives Here (Core Values)\nWe don't hire on resumes alone. We hire for competence, character, and mindset.\nEmbrace Change: Open to feedback, embracing change, and always asking \"what's next?\"\nCommitted: You care deeply, have your teammates' backs, and show up to build something lasting.\nNo-Ego Energy: Positive, professional, and solutions-oriented. Drama stays at the door.\nOwnership: You do what you say, follow through, and treat the business like it's yours.\nFast & Hungry: You move with urgency, thrive under high expectations, and are motivated by growth and impact.\nWhat We Offer\nBase Salary: $148,800 and $181,700, commensurate with experience\nOur job postings reflect the compensation range for the specific market and location of each role. Ranges vary by geography based on local market rates and cost of labor.\nBenefits include: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, HSA, life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, and parental leave.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or being a qualified disabled veteran or qualified veteran of the Vietnam era or any other category protected by Federal or State law.\nDisclaimer:\nTopDog Technologies, Inc. [TopDog Law, P.A.] [TopDog Law SE, PLLC] (\"TopDog\") may use artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making tools to assist in screening and evaluating candidates for employment positions, including whether to advance a candidate in the application process. 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