Data Engineer

Who We Are:

Cross River is a highly profitable fast-growing financial technology company recognized for the third year in a row by CB Insights as one of the 250 best global fintechs. Our comprehensive suite of innovative products powers financial solutions with a strong focus on regulatory compliance for our partners and their millions of consumers around the world.

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 5 consecutive years. The reason for this success is simple — our nimble, adaptive, and collaborative culture. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation in financial services, and we invite collaborative and motivated high performers to join our rapidly expanding team.

About Our Team:

Cross River’s team is made up of problem solvers hungry to build and perfect new products and systems. We work with team members in most US time zones. Although we are in separate places, we still make space to know one another and have fun! We collaborate, help and mentor each other, and check in on our progress and blocks frequently. We work together primarily with Slack, GitHub, JIRA, and Zoom.

What We’re Looking for:

• We are hiring a Data Engineer that will report to the Data Platform Head. The ideal candidate has a Software and Data Engineering background focused on executing and enhancing our modern data platform. You will be responsible for building batch/distributed and real-time highly available pipelines while ensuring data quality is constantly maintained via DataOps best practices and be represented as a key contributor on implementation of our enterprise data model.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build fault tolerant, self-healing, adaptive and highly accurate data pipelines
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of data engineering to build and support non-interactive (batch, distributed) & real-time, highly available data, data pipeline and technology capabilities
• Institute data quality checks and implement monitoring in the pipelines to ensure confidence in the data
• Be a key contributor to the data modeling of the data warehouse
• Champion the automation of all data, tool, and cloud infrastructure processes
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization
• Partner with business, and other engineering teams to design and build data pipelines
• Develop and maintain data platform documentation
• Perform root cause analysis to identify permanent resolutions to software or business process issues
• Leverage source code management best practices including git, pull requests, code reviews
• Perform SQL tuning as necessary

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience as a Software engineer with a strong Data focus or similar role
• 5+ years writing SQL with a strong understanding of 3NF, dimensional and denormalized data modeling (experience with DBT is a plus)
• 5+ years using Python, Pandas and Pyspark
• 5+ years maintaining enterprise data platforms on AWS
• 2+ years working with an orchestration tool like Airflow
• 2+ years architecting container-based application/task execution with Docker on AWS
• 2+ years working with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, etc.)
• 1+ years cloud automation with Terraform
• Experience with practices for data and table schema change migration
• Knowledge of high-availability, data replication and failover configurations across pipelines, infrastructure, and regions
• Experience with data privacy, security and regulatory concerns related to data management in Financial Services industries
• Working experience with Terraform scripts for Infrastructure as Code scripting is required

Cross River is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. 

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Salary Range: $200,000.00-$240,000.00