Vestwell · 23 hours ago
Data Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$115K/yr - $130K/yr
3+ years expVestwell is a financial technology company based in New York City that powers the savings economy. They are seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines and workflows, working closely with senior engineers to drive projects and improve their data platform.
Employee BenefitsFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechRetirement
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines and workflows that support reporting and analytics use cases
Work with large, complex data sets to meet business requirements, improve data quality, and ensure data is accurate and timely
Develop and optimize infrastructure for extracting, loading, and transforming data from a variety of sources
Build and enhance analytics tools and data models that power reporting and provide actionable insights into key business metrics
Collaborate with stakeholders on the Product, Operations, and Executive teams to understand their data needs and deliver solutions that meet those needs
Support production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and continuous improvement of performance and reliability
Contribute to team practices, including code reviews, documentation, and occasionally helping more junior teammates
Qualification
Required
3–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related data-focused engineering role
Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
Hands-on experience building and optimizing cloud data pipelines (ETL/ELT)
Experience building processes that support data transformation, data modeling, metadata management, and dependency/workload management
Strong analytical skills and experience working with unstructured or semi-structured data
Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores
Experience working with and supporting cross-functional teams
Python programming experience, especially in data engineering contexts
Experience with Snowflake or another modern cloud data warehouse
Experience with ETL/ELT and data transformation tools such as Fivetran, dbt, etc
Experience with Business Intelligence tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc
A Computer Science or related technical degree, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience with AWS cloud services such as EMR, S3, Glue, SES, SNS/SQS, or EC2 (or similar services on another cloud provider)
Benefits
Competitive health coverage
Generous vacation offering
Great 401(k) plan
Company
Vestwell
Vestwell is the backbone of the modern savings economy; a fintech company powering savings for retirement, education, and healthcare.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$238.82MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGoldman Sachs Growth EquityF-Prime
2023-12-21Series D· $125M
2021-07-20Series C· $70M
2019-04-02Series B· $31.27M
Leadership Team
Aaron Schumm
Founder, Chairman, & CEO
David Sheen
Chief Financial Officer
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