Staff Data Engineer
Self Financial5 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead data pipeline development, data modeling, and schema population for Self Financial’s data environment.
- Design physical and logical data models for large, complex datasets.
- Manage data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python.
- Maintain data lifecycle and data quality standards.
- Collaborate with Product Management to translate strategy into actionable projects.
- Perform architecture design, project analysis, work breakdown, and planning.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, mentorship, and accountability for team results.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Product Management, Analytics, Machine Learning, and Business Intelligence teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with database development, database integration, and data analytics tools.
- 8+ years of experience designing and implementing complex data warehouse and data lake data models using Kimball methodology.
- Proficiency managing ETL/ELT processes with large datasets.
- Experience with columnar data structures such as Amazon Redshift and familiarity with AWS data warehousing tools.
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Python.
- Experience with Git, JIRA, Confluence, and similar software engineering tools.
- Willingness to take on team leadership and accountability for team results.
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Benefits
- Company equity through stock options and performance-based bonuses.
- Employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
- Flexible vacation policy, educational assistance, free gym membership, casual dress code, team-building events, and paid parental leave.
- Remote work arrangements and a flexible work schedule.
- Employment requires successfully passing a background check.
About Self Financial
Self Financial builds a consumer credit-building platform offering Credit Builder Accounts, a secured Self Visa Credit Card issued by partner banks, and rent/utility payment reporting. It targets consumers with limited or damaged credit histories and monetizes through fees and interest associated with its financial products delivered via mobile apps and web. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the privately held company serves customers across the United States.