Data Engineer (NYC) (Fintech)

THE COMPANY
A Series C, New York City Based Fintech platform and online marketplace are looking for a Data Engineer to join a new team.  

Their data capabilities and culture are still in early stages, so this is an awesome opportunity to build a data platform from the ground up, working alongside the new Principal Data Engineer.  

You'll be a crucial member of the team as they define roadmap to normalize all of their transactional data, disparate systems, and transfer of data in way that creates a flexible and scalable data solution.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• You will be interested in utilizing data to make an impact on their customer experience and growth in addition to the ability to execute on those ideas.
• You will partner with various teams across the business to help extract meaningful analysis from the data we have collected. 
• Write reports in SQL
• Design and build ETL pipelines
• Develop and maintain data products and infrastructure
• Compile data to show progress and guide high-level decision making
• Help to design data-driven experiments across the business
• Think outside the box and maintain a flexible approach to problem solving

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

• 3+ years of Data modeling, ETL, and Data Warehousing experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
• Strong software engineering skills in any server side language (Python (favoured), Ruby, Java, etc.)
• Strong hands-on knowledge of SQL
• Experience with mpp databases (Redshift, Vertica, etc) or similar technologies (Presto, Spark, etc) is a plus
• Great communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data driven insights
• Self-starter, thriving in a startup environment
• Experience with Agile software development methods