Junior AI Data Engineer (Marketing)

About TRA

At Tax Relief Advocates (TRA), we are dedicated to serving our clients and community with integrity, empathy, and a client-first approach. Our vibrant, energetic culture balances hard work with a passion for making a meaningful impact nationwide. Our mission is to guide individuals through the tax resolution process with trust, education, and care, delivering solutions that transform lives.

About the Role

Are you ready to lead a marketing transformation through quality assurance and automation? As the Junior AI Data Engineer (Marketing), you’ll be the driving force behind ensuring the quality and performance of our AI-driven marketing systems. This role builds the data and automation backbone for TRA’s marketing operations — replacing manual Google Sheet processes, automating data cleaning, and enabling real-time reporting across all campaigns. This role ensures that marketing, analytics, and operations teams have accurate, unified, and AI-ready data from all sources (radio, digital ads, affiliates, CRM, etc.).

What You'll Do

Build and maintain the unified database

• Develop ETL/ELT pipelines pulling from internal systems and third-party APIs into a centralized warehouse
• Write and optimize SQL for transformations and reporting layers
• Model data so it's consistent and documented across sources

API integration

• Build and test integrations against REST APIs
• Handle authentication, pagination, rate limits, and error handling
• Write tests that catch failures early

Data quality ownership

• Build validation and monitoring to catch missing, duplicate, corrupted, or inconsistent records before they reach a dashboard
• Investigate discrepancies and reconcile against source systems
• Establish reusable automated checks

Deployment and automation

• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy and monitor scheduled jobs on cloud infrastructure
• Maintain clean version control and participate in code review

Testing and code quality

• Write unit and integration tests for pipelines, integrations, and internal services
• Maintain and grow test coverage as the codebase expands
• Participate in code review and help keep engineering standards consistent across the team

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field
• 1+ year of hands-on experience (internships and substantial project work count)
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Experience calling, testing, and debugging REST APIs
• Working knowledge of Git
• Working familiarity with AWS and/or Azure
• Understanding of CI/CD and automated deployment
• Strong technical reading comprehension and attention to detail

Nice to have

PostgreSQL, Supabase, Power BI, FastAPI, Docker, dbt/Airflow, or experience working with LLM APIs. Don't have all of these? No problem — we're happy to help you grow into them.

Why Join Us?

At TRA, you’ll join a high-impact, forward-thinking team revolutionizing tax resolution through innovative AI and automation. You’ll tackle exciting QA challenges, collaborate with top talent, and play a central role in ensuring client-first solutions at scale. We’re not just building smarter systems -- we’re creating a better experience for every person who turns to us for help. Join us to lead TRA’s AI-driven QA automation strategy and shape the future of how we grow, connect, and serve.

Location: Irvine, CA - onsite

Compensation: Up to $85,000 - $110,000 depending on experience 

Position Type: Full-time, permanent