Data Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, and enhance dependable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and distribute data across Dave's data platform.

• Lead data engineering initiatives and pipelines from implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

• Utilize Snowflake, dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, APIs, files, and cloud services to facilitate production workloads.

• Optimize production workloads for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Assist in warehouse development through schema design, data modeling, testing, documentation, data quality practices, and query optimization.

• Enhance processes for ingestion, orchestration, validation, retries, backfills, monitoring, and alerting.

• Minimize recurring operational tasks.

• Employ AI-assisted engineering tools for development, debugging, documentation, and analysis while ensuring accuracy, security, review, and engineering standards are upheld.

• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Risk, Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams.

• Gradually assume wider technical and domain ownership.

• Report to the Data Engineering Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 2 years of experience in software or data engineering, particularly in building or supporting production data systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proficient programming skills in Python, Java, or another general-purpose programming language.

• Strong SQL proficiency.

• Experience in constructing or maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.

• Familiarity with dbt, Fivetran, or similar tools.

• Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.

• Proficient with orchestration tools like Airflow or Cloud Composer.

• Knowledge of data modeling, data quality, relational data, and query and performance optimization.

• Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including version control, testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.

• Ability to troubleshoot production systems in a systematic manner.

• Effective communication skills with both technical and business partners.

• Permanent authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Flexible hours.

• Virtual-first work culture.

• Home office stipend.

• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans.

• Generous paid parental and caregiver leave.

• 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions.

• Financial advisor and financial wellness support.

• Flexible PTO.

• Generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break.

• All-company in-person events once or twice a year.

• Virtual events throughout the year to connect with team members and leadership.