Senior Data Engineer

undefined ago • 5 Years + • Data Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a core part of the Data Engineering Team, ensuring data remains a strategic asset by delivering timely, high-quality data. You will design and implement data models, manage pipelines, and support internal Analytics, Machine Learning, and Business Intelligence organizations, contributing to world-class credit-building products.
Must have:
  • Design and implement data models
  • Populate data schemas within Self Financial's data environment
  • Collaborate to design and implement data models
  • Perform data model design, project analysis, work breakdown, and planning
  • Create physical and logical data models for large, complex datasets
  • Manage data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python
  • Maintain data lifecycle processes and uphold data quality standards
  • 5+ years experience with database development
  • 5+ years experience with database integration
  • 5+ years experience with data analytics tools
  • 5+ years experience designing and implementing Data Warehouse models
  • 5+ years experience designing and implementing Data Lake data models
  • Proficient in managing Data ETL/ELT with large data sets
  • Experience with columnar data structures like Amazon RedShift
  • Familiarity with AWS data warehousing tools
  • Experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow
  • Familiarity with Python
Perks:
  • Company equity in the form of Stock Options
  • Performance-based bonuses
  • Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Educational assistance
  • Free gym membership
  • Casual dress code
  • Team building events and activities
  • Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
  • Paid parental leave

Job Details

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

About the Platform Engineering Teams:

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company who believes everyone should have the ability to improve their financial future. We exist to enable people to build credit, save money, and reach their goals.

Our teams aim to challenge the status quo of the credit industry by providing people the tools necessary to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration to ensure our products reach the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.

As an Engineer on our Platform Engineering Teams you will be working at the very core of how we improve our credit-building products and services. You’ll be charged with ensuring that our amazing products and team members have the tooling, data, and integrations necessary to reach our goal.

Teams that make a difference; individuals that matter in Data Engineering:

At Self Financial, we love to put challenges into the hands of talented individuals to solve. Our teams are composed of skilled professionals, who work together in concert to innovate both our credit building services and the processes we organize around. We empower every individual of the Engineering Organization to bring their creativity and skills to these efforts. Our goal is to build both world class credit building products and to foster an exciting and engaging work environment. In short, at Self, you will carry influence.

As part of the Data Engineering Team, your role will be to ensure that data remains a strategic asset for Self Financial by delivering timely, high-quality, and purpose-built data to our team members. Our team supports Self Financial's internal Analytics, Machine Learning, and Business Intelligence organizations.

What can you expect to work on/who you will work with?

  • The Senior Data Engineer is part of the Self Financial Data Engineering Team and operates as part of a cross functional product development team that includes Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product Management
  • Your primary focus will be on designing and implementing our data model, as well as populating data schemas within Self Financial's data environment for use in business intelligence and data analysis activities.
  • Your day-to-day activities will include:
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management and the team to design and implement data models.
  • Perform data model design, project analysis, work breakdown, and planning.
  • Create physical and logical data models for large, complex datasets.
  • Manage data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python.
  • Maintain data lifecycle processes and uphold data quality standards.

Who you are:

  • 5+ years of experience with database development, database integration, and data analytics tools
  • 5+ years of experience designing and implementing complex Data Warehouse and Data Lake data models (Kimball)
  • Proficient in managing Data ETL/ELT with large data sets
  • Experience with columnar data structures such as Amazon RedShift
  • Familiarity with AWS data warehousing tools.
  • Experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence and similar platforms.
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Python
  • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

The interview process:

  • HackerRank Challenge
  • 30 - 60 minute phone screen with the hiring manager
  • 1 hr live coding/design/Q&A session with 2 or more developers
  • 30-minute interview with Stakeholders
  • 30-minute wrap-up meeting with the hiring manager, if moving forward

Benefits and Perks:

We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.

Our perks include:

  • Company equity in the form of Stock Options
  • Performance-based bonuses
  • Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Educational assistance
  • Free gym membership
  • Casual dress code
  • Team building events and activities
  • Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
  • Paid parental leave

Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. We appreciate your understanding.

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