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title: 'Analytics Engineer, Data Platform at Upside'
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# Analytics Engineer, Data Platform at Upside

- **Company:** Upside
- **Location:** Washington, DC
- **Compensation:** $149k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/upside/022a5c37-643e-4b1c-a85a-aa5ba6600ca3

## Job description

Meet Upside: We created Upside to transform brick-and-mortar commerce. Our technology uses the sophistication of online retail—profit measurement, attribution, and incrementality—to provide users with more value on their everyday purchases and brick-and-mortar businesses with new, profitable customers. We’ve helped millions of users earn 2 to 3 times more cashback than any other product, and hundreds of thousands of brick-and-mortar businesses earn measurable profit. Billions of dollars in commerce run through the Upside platform every year, and that value goes directly back to our retailer partners, the consumers they serve, and important sustainability initiatives.

The work Five million people use Upside to earn cash back on gas, groceries, and dining. The offers they see, the lifecycle messages they get, and the partner launches behind both all run on data models. You'll own a set of those. Not just building them. Deciding how they should be shaped, testing them, monitoring them, and documenting them well enough that someone else can safely build on your work. You'll sit close to Marketing, Data, and MarTech, so a lot of the job is turning a messy question into something concrete and trustworthy. Team of six. Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, AWS.

## What you'll do in your first year

- Own a scoped domain of dbt models: design, build, test, ship, and monitor them, with a clear point of view on how they should be structured
- Turn ambiguous asks from Marketing and Product into scoped work, and talk openly about tradeoffs when the ask and the timeline don't fit together
- Write the design doc for the features you own and break the work into pieces teammates can pick up
- Add monitoring and alerting to your models so your team catches problems before stakeholders do
- Take your turn on our support rotation, debug what breaks, and prevent the repeat
- Leave behind runbooks, schema docs, and diagrams that make your work easy for the next person to own
- Coach engineers earlier in their careers on the team, in code review and day to day

You might be a good fit if

- You've spent around 3–5 years in data or analytics engineering, or you've done comparable work under a different title
- You're fluent in SQL, comfortable with window functions and complex joins, and you think about query performance without being asked
- You've owned dbt models in a version-controlled repo; conventions, tests, CI, and the occasional cleanup of someone else's tangle
- You know Python well enough to work in orchestration, transformations, and tests
- You have an opinion on modeling tradeoffs (dimensional vs. one big table) and can explain which you'd pick and why
- You can explain a technical decision to a marketer and an engineer in the same meeting, and adjust how you say it for each
- You've worked in Snowflake, or a comparable warehouse you could translate from

## Nice to have, not required

- Marketing, growth, or lifecycle data: events, attribution, experimentation, or tools like Braze, Iterable, or Segment
- Dagster, Airflow, or another modern orchestrator
- CI/CD for data, data governance, or cost-conscious warehouse design
- Supporting ML workflows, like building features or watching model inputs
- Making warehouse data usable by AI tooling; semantic layers, data contracts, or documentation that agents and humans can both read

One note on the lists above: they describe the work, not a checklist you have to clear. Plenty of strong people talk themselves out of applying over one missing bullet. If you meet most of the core list and this sounds like your kind of problem, apply and let us decide together.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1
- Equity (ISOs)
- 401(k) program
- Family planning programs + paid parental leave
- Physical fitness and wellness memberships
- Emotional and mental health support programs
- Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break
- Flexible work environment
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
- Employee Resource Groups
- Learning and Development stipend
- Transparent culture
- Amazing mission!

Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity drives innovation, and our differences make us stronger. We‘re passionate about building a workplace that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Everyone is welcome here!

If there's anything we can do to support a disability or special need during your application or interview process, please email accommodations@upside.com. This email is for accessibility accommodations only, it should not be used to submit job applications.

Notice To Recruiters And Placement Agencies: This is an in-house search with a dedicated recruiter. Please do not submit resumes to any person or email address at Upside. Upside is not liable for, and will not pay, placement fees for candidates submitted by any party or agency other than its approved recruitment partners.

## About Upside

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Upside is a mobile app that gives consumers cash back on everyday purchases like gas, groceries, and food while helping brick-and-mortar retailers increase profit without changing their operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D stage)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, DC, USA
- **Founded**: 2016 (began as GetUpside in January 2016)
- **Founders**: Alex Kinnier (Co-founder & CEO), Chris Yager (Co-founder & CPO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Consumer rewards, brick-and-mortar commerce, mobile payments, sustainability
- Target customers: B2C (consumers) and B2B (retailers including gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, and hardware stores)
- Mission or purpose statement: “We exist to advance the economic power of people living and working in the real world.”

## Products & Services
- **[Upside App]**: A mobile application that offers personalized cash back on purchases at partner retailers. Users earn money back and retailers gain incremental profit. The platform also expanded into mobile payments in 2023.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total cash back delivered to consumers – over $1B; total incremental profit delivered to retailers – $2.5B; annual commerce run rate – $6B
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed on the provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Reached 35 million consumers in its marketplace (as of April 2022 timeline entry); expanded into hardware stores (2024) and mobile payments (2023); offices opened in Chicago, New York, and Austin; 1% of revenue committed to sustainability initiatives

## Competitive Advantages
- Personalization engine that drives higher consumer engagement and retailer profitability
- Strong sustainability focus (1% of revenue to environmental initiatives, 4 million metric tons of CO2 offset, food rescue)
- Large, growing network of retailers across multiple categories (gas, grocery, food, hardware)
- Radically transparent culture and values-driven operations

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding into new retail verticals and geographies
- Deepen mobile payment functionality to increase consumer stickiness
- Scale the platform to deliver even more economic impact for both consumers and retailers
- Maintain commitment to sustainability and community impact

## Why Work Here
- Culture of radical transparency, ownership, and data-driven decision making
- Values-driven environment with active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): UP+PRIDE, UMOJA, Unidos, PersonalizASIAN, EmpowHER
- Hybrid/remote work options with offices in Washington DC (HQ), Chicago, New York, and Austin
- Competitive benefits: unlimited PTO, stock options, comprehensive health coverage, mental health support, family forming benefits (including Carrot Fertility), generous parental leave
- Recognized as a Great Place to Work
- Diverse team composition (62% male, 37% female, 1% non-binary; 70% White, 9% Asian, 6% Black, 6% Latin/Hispanic, 2% two or more races, plus other groups)

## Sources
1. [upside.com/about/careers](https://www.upside.com/about/careers)
2. [upside.com/about](https://www.upside.com/about)
3. [upside.com/](https://www.upside.com/)
4. [upside.com/blog/upside-isnt-just-great-for-people-and-businesses-its-a-great-place-to-work](https://www.upside.com/blog/upside-isnt-just-great-for-people-and-businesses-its-a-great-place-to-work)
5. [upside.com/about/team](https://www.upside.com/about/team)

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