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# Data Engineer, Event Data at Movable Ink

- **Company:** Movable Ink
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-11
- **Apply:** https://movableink.com/job-listing?gh_jid=8127737

## Job description

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

The Data Engineer, Event Data will join a newly formed team responsible for building the systems that ingest, process, and serve the massive volume of client and internal event data that powers Movable Ink's platform. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape the architecture of a critical data domain, working with modern streaming technologies, analytical databases, and Elixir and Python to solve problems at billions-event scale. You will help define how event data flows through the platform, making it faster, more reliable, and highly available for teams and clients across the organization.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain event streaming pipelines that ingest data from client systems, internal services, and third-party sources into the data platform
- Develop and operate analytical databases and data models optimized for high-volume event data queries and low-latency access
- Write production Elixir and Python services for event processing, transformation, and routing
- Integrate legacy event pipelines with modern streaming infrastructure, designing migration paths that minimize risk and disruption to downstream consumers
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling for event data systems, ensuring pipeline health, data freshness, and SLA compliance
- Define and enforce event schemas, data contracts, and quality standards in partnership with producing and consuming teams
- Collaborate with the data platform, product engineering, and analytics teams to understand data needs and deliver reliable event data products
- Participate in system design reviews and help establish best practices for the Events Data team

Qualifications:

- Strong proficiency in Elixir and/or Python as a primary programming language for building application connectors, data services and pipeline components
- Advanced SQL skills for data modeling, query optimization, and analytical workloads
- Hands-on experience with columnar/OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) databases at production scale
- Experience with stream processing frameworks and message brokers such as Apache Flink, Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis; Flink experience is a strong plus
- Demonstrated ability to integrate and migrate systems, bridging legacy and modern architectures
- Proven track record of operationalizing data pipelines, including building monitoring, alerting, SLA dashboards, and runbooks for production systems
- Experience designing and operating data systems on AWS; GCP experience is a plus
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable leading design discussions, writing technical specs, and working across team boundaries
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- Experience with retail events data such as clickstream, purchase events, or product interaction data is a plus

Experience with Databricks, Flink and message brokers such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis is a plus

The base pay range for this position is $130k CAD - $165k CAD, which can include additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Studies have shown that women, communities of color, and historically underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive. If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.

We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

## About Movable Ink

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Movable Ink delivers AI-powered content personalization and decisioning software that helps brands create individualized customer engagements at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Symphony Technology Group (STG) in June 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly available from provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Marketing technology (martech), AI-powered personalization, CRM automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise brands, marketers in retail, e-commerce, financial services, etc.
- **Mission / Purpose**: To help businesses earn attention in a world where time is precious and creativity is power – enabling marketers to amplify their voice and delight customers.

## Products & Services
- **Movable Ink Studio**: A 1:1 content personalization platform that transforms data into unique, personalized content at the moment of engagement (SaaS).
- **Movable Ink Da Vinci**: An AI-decisioning solution that curates content for each customer, optimizing batch messaging programs to drive revenue lift and improve experiences (SaaS).
- **Programmatic CRM by Movable Ink**: Automated, AI-driven orchestration of content variations, message curation, send-time and frequency optimization (SaaS).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by STG in June 2025 for an undisclosed amount)
- **Key Metric**: Over 500 employees (global); 200+ product + tech employees (as of 2025)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Symphony Technology Group (STG) – acquirer; partner network of nearly 100 verified integrations (e.g., ESPs, CDPs, analytics tools)
- **Growth Signals**: Named one of BuiltIn’s “Best Places to Work” in 2025 across multiple cities; won AI Breakthrough and AdExchanger AI Innovator awards; acquired by STG in June 2025; Adam Stambleck named CEO in March 2026; served as “the world’s most innovative brands” globally

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native personalization** with proprietary decisioning engine (Da Vinci) that differentiates from rule-based or static personalization tools.
- **Deep partner ecosystem** – nearly 100 verified integrations, allowing seamless fit into existing martech stacks.
- **Proven ROI** – Forrester TEI study found customers achieved over $20M in benefits over three years with payback under six months.
- **Enterprise scale** – powers high-volume, real-time personalization for global brands (e.g., Hibbett boosted email revenue 46% per send).

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to scale AI-driven automation for customer engagement, especially in batch and triggered messaging.
- Expanding international presence (North America, Central America, Europe, Australia) and deepening partner integrations.
- Post-acquisition integration with STG while maintaining innovation in AI-decisioning and content generation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes curiosity, grit, empathy, and collaboration; employee-owned culture with active ERGs (Movable Pink, Inklusive, LatINK, Black-Ink, Movable Ink Asians) and a company-wide culture committee (BCC).
- **Work Flexibility**: Hybrid work model; offices in New York (HQ), Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and other global locations.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health, dental, vision; generous PTO (including holidays, birthdays, weddings); mental health and well-being benefits; 401K contribution (US); competitive parental leave and support; volunteer opportunities; social events and company talent show.
- **Recognition**: BuiltIn Best Places to Work 2025 (multiple cities), Inc. Magazine Best Workplaces, Fortune 100 Best Midsize Companies to Work For 2025, National Retail Federation’s “Best Marketing Automation Solution”.
- **Interview Process**: Focus interviews using A-Method (Top Grading); reference checks; virtual interviews via Zoom; encourages candidates to ask questions.

## Sources
1. [movableink.com - Careers](https://movableink.com/careers)
2. [movableink.com - About](https://movableink.com/about)
3. [movableink.com - Home](https://movableink.com/)
4. [movableink.com - Hiring FAQ](https://movableink.com/careers/faq)
5. [builtin.com - Movable Ink Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/movable-ink/jobs)

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