Staff Data Engineer

*This role requires in-person attendance in the Charlotte, NC office at least 3 days a week (ideally Tuesday-Thursday)*

Position:

LendingTree is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join our AI Innovation Lab. We have an exciting opportunity to build revenue-generating and customer-facing AI solutions.

This individual will partner with architecture, platform and operations, enterprise data and analytic teams and other senior technical leaders to develop and implement a consolidated roadmap to meet critical data/analytic/AI/ML related business needs and capabilities, while implementing technologies, platforms and tools aligned to the LendingTree’s AI strategy.

We are seeking a data lead who will be passionate about data engineering and building streaming data pipelines, will be a big picture thinker, and will work with partners across Marketing, Product, Data Science, Analytics, Contact Center and Technology teams to deliver on enterprise data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work very closely with Data Platform & Operations team, Data Architecture & Automation leads, Data Engineers & the broader data/analytic community to:
• Define target state architecture for LendingTree’s Cloud Data Platform
• Define best practices pertaining to the capture of metadata, data governance, data security within Cloud Data space

• Create real-time streaming data pipelines for multiple sources and data types

• Define and oversee implementation execution for Operational Cloud Data Lake including data migration patterns from SQL and other data stores along with developing access control and security playbook
• Key contributor to and member of the AI Innovation team and active participant in Enterprise Cloud Data initiatives
• Provide mentorship and train staff on standards and policies around best data engineering practices including technical documentation
• Develop and support data warehouse platform and data service applications spanning multiple verticals
• MUST assist as an individual contributor to an Agile Development Team (e.g., developing solutions to achieve defined business outcomes) in addition to leading a team 

Must-Have Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Big Data Platform Management and Lifecycle
• Expert-level experience & knowledge on Cloud Data Warehouse like Snowflake
• Extensive experience with modern ETL / ELT tools like – dbt and FiveTran
• Proficient in AWS technology stack like AirFlow, Lambda, etc.
• Ability to design, lead, implement & support data integration projects with minimal oversight
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Expertise in at least 1 programming language (python, Java, Scala etc.)

Additional Experience Preferred:

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience with RESTful API’s, AWS Gateway API, Lambda, Kafka Data Pipelines
• Experience of AI / ML / LLM’s
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)

Benefits & Compensation:

• We offer all of the regular perks (i.e. medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, etc.), plus a few unique ones including “unlimited” time off, annual bonuses, company stock, etc.)
• Dress code – we don’t have one. (Flip flops, shorts, jeans… whatever.)
• Work for an established brand in a start-up environment

COMPANY 

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices. 

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more. 

What else you should know:  

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE). 
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices. 
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.   

CULTURE 

We are a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial outlook. We strive to be collaborative, ambitious, candid, and high-energy. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. We believe in rewarding innovation, creativity and value the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”).  

Come work with us! 

Incentive Compensation: Variable compensation (depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience), annual bonus   

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision insurance and 401(k) matching