Staff Data Engineer

Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.

We challenge the status quo of the credit industry by giving people accessible tools to take control of their credit, with a focus on the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit. We're looking for people who share our passion, tackle challenges, find solutions, and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.

Staff Data Engineer

• Partner with Product Management to translate strategy into actionable projects
• Lead architecture design, project analysis, work breakdown, and planning
• Create physical and logical data models for large, complex data sets
• Manage data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python
• Maintain data lifecycle and quality standards

• 8+ years of experience in database development, database integration, and data analytics tools
• 8+ years designing and implementing complex Data Warehouse and Data Lake models (Kimball)
• Proficiency managing ETL/ELT with large data sets
• Willingness to take on team leadership and accountability for team results
• Experience with common engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, and Confluence
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

• Experience with columnar data structures such as Amazon Redshift
• Familiarity with AWS data warehousing tools
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Python

$160,000 – $195,000 annually. Individual pay and level are based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, region, and other job-related reasons.

Self Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under applicable law. If you need an accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.

We can only consider candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents (green card holders). We are unable to offer visa sponsorship of any kind, now or in the future. All new hires must successfully pass a background check.

Self Financial is an AI-forward company. Our interview process is designed to understand your own career experience, technical acumen, and communication skills. Please do not use AI tools to generate or assist with your answers during interviews unless we explicitly invite you to. If we have reason to believe AI was used in a way that misrepresents your own abilities, we may remove you from the interview process and from consideration for future opportunities at Self.