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Self Financial

Staff Data Engineer

Posted 2 Hours Ago
Hybrid
Austin, TX, USA
160K-195K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Austin, TX, USA
160K-195K Annually
Senior level
Lead data engineering initiatives supporting analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence teams. Design complex data warehouse and data lake models, manage large-scale SQL and Python ETL/ELT pipelines, maintain data quality and lifecycle standards, and translate strategic priorities into actionable projects. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration with product, infrastructure, and architecture teams.
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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.

About the Role:

As our Staff Data Engineer, you will be responsible for organizing plans that drive outcomes and making a direct impact on our mission. We want you to provide technical leadership to your teammates through coaching and mentorship, and collaborate cross-functionally to implement impactful improvements to our product.

As part of the Self Financial 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 you will do:

  • Operates as part of a cross functional product development team that includes Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product Management
  • Your primary focus will be on leading the data pipeline, modeling, and 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:
    • Collaborating closely with Product Management to translate Self Financial's strategic vision into actionable projects.
    • Architecture design, project analysis, work break down and planning.  
    • Creating Physical and Logical Data Models with large, complex data sets
    • Managing data pipeline, ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python
    • Maintaining data lifecycle and quality standards

Who you are:

  • 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 (Kimball)
  • Willingness to embrace the responsibilities of team leadership and accountability for team results
  • 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

Base salary range: $160,000-195,000 annually.  Individual pay and level is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.

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. 

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
  • Hybrid work arrangements/schedules
  • 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.

HQ

Self Financial Austin, Texas, USA Office

Our company is in the heart of downtown Austin overlooking the world-famous sixth street district and the Texas State Capitol building.

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