Senior Data Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
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Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Social Impact • Software • Financial Services
Self helps underserved and credit invisible people build and establish their credit.
The Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead data pipeline management and modeling, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance business intelligence. Responsibilities include architecture design, ETL/ELT processes, and maintaining data quality standards while mentoring teammates.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 Role:

As a Senior Data Engineer you will be responsible for contributing to plans that drive outcomes and making a significant impact on our mission. You will provide technical expertise to your teammates through coaching and mentorship, and collaborate effectively cross-functionally to implement impactful improvements to our product.

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:

  • 6+ years of experience with database development, database integration, and data analytics tools
  • 6+ 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: $114,000 - $167,000 annually.  Individual pay 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. 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.

Top Skills

Amazon Redshift
Apache Airflow
AWS
Confluence
Git
JIRA
Python
SQL

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
Austin, TX
300 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Self Financial is a 10-year-old credit-building platform that works to increase financial resilience through products that make building credit accessible. Products include Self's signature Credit Builder Account, secured Self Visa® Credit Card, and free rent reporting to the three major credit bureaus. Self is also the Official Credit Building App of the San

Why Work With Us

It's not every day you have the opportunity to work for a for-profit company with a strong mission that has meaningful impact on people's lives. If you're searching for a higher purpose and you're passionate about helping to improve people's financial situation, then Self is just the place.

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Self Financial Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We offer a remote and hybrid work environment to adapt to our changing world, including unlimited time off when you need it.

Typical time on-site: Not Specified
Austin, TX
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