Staff Data Engineer
United States·AustinleadQuick Summary
Operates as part of a cross functional product development team that includes Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product Management Your primary focus will be on leading the data pipeline, modeling,
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're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
About the Role
~1 min readAs our Staff Data Engineer, you will be responsible for organizing plans that drive outcomes and making a direct impact on our mission. We want you to provide technical leadership to your teammates through coaching and mentorship, and collaborate cross-functionally to implement impactful improvements to our product.
As part of the Self Financial Data Engineering Team, your role will be to ensure that data remains a strategic asset for Self Financial by delivering timely, high-quality, and purpose-built data to our team members. Our team supports Self Financial's internal Analytics, Machine Learning, and Business Intelligence organizations.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Operates as part of a cross functional product development team that includes Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product Management
- →Your primary focus will be on leading the data pipeline, modeling, and populating data schemas within Self Financial's Data Environment for use in business intelligence and data analysis activities.
- →Your day-to-day activities will include:
- →Collaborating closely with Product Management to translate Self Financial's strategic vision into actionable projects.
- →Architecture design, project analysis, work break down and planning.
- →Creating Physical and Logical Data Models with large, complex data sets
- →Managing data pipeline, ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python
- →Maintaining data lifecycle and quality standards
- 8+ years of experience with database development, database integration, and data analytics tools
- 8+ years of experience designing and implementing complex Data Warehouse and Data Lake data models (Kimball)
- Willingness to embrace the responsibilities of team leadership and accountability for team results
- Proficient in managing Data ETL/ELT with large data sets
- Experience with columnar data structures such as Amazon RedShift
- Familiarity with AWS data warehousing tools
- Experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence and similar platforms
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow and Python
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
What We Offer
~1 min readLocation & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $160,000–$195,000 a year
- 8% above the $165,000 median for Data Engineer jobs on Jobera (553 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- 129 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- June 8, 2026
- First seen
- June 8, 2026
- Last seen
- October 15, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 128
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 23%
- Scored at
- October 15, 2026
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