Senior Data Engineer

Stash is pioneering the future of personal finance with the first financial subscription that helps people create better lives. From budgeting to saving for retirement, Stash unites banking, investing, and advice all in one app that has helped more than 5M people reach their financial goals and make progress towards financial freedom.

We look for people who will help raise the bar for our entire engineering organization in terms of tech prowess, passion for collaboration and desire to mentor and educate fellow team members. We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution and we’ll expect you to contribute code as well as product/feature ideas from the get-go.

Our team has built an amazing modern data platform and we would like to add many advancements such as real time streaming, many tools around data governance. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing our data infrastructure to take it to the next level, in collaboration with the team members. You will also be an active contributor in the ongoing maintenance of the existing pipelines. Stash is a data-driven organization and data infrastructure is a critical part of our overall infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to make an impact in the companies’ OKRs by coordinating with data science, marketing teams and backend teams by aligning with their data needs. We work with the latest technologies in the big data space and are seeking folks who would like to do the same.

Tech stack (evolving):

Spark, Scala, Python, Kafka, AWS EMR, Hive, Redshift, Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Looker, DynamoDB, CircleCI, Terraform.

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to the design/architecture new initiatives such as real time streaming pipelines, tooling around data governance, build job orchestration abstractions to manage resources on AWS
• Collaborate with the team to build tools for data science/marketing teams
• Design integration pipelines for new data sources and improve existing pipelines to perform efficiently at scale
• Provide technical guidance to the team
• Leverage best practices in continuous integration and deployment to our cloud-based infrastructure
• Optimize data access and consumption for our business and product colleagues

Who you are:

• 4+ years of professional experience working in data warehousing, data architecture, and/or data engineering environments, especially using spark, hadoop, hive etc with solid understanding of streaming pipelines.
• At least 1+ years of experience in streaming pipeline development
• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language Scala
• Good understanding of databases
• BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• You have built large-scale data products and understand the tradeoffs made when building these features
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• You have an excellent knowledge of distributed computing frameworks such as Hadoop MapReduce, Spark.
• You have a strong knowledge of following AWS infrastructure – EMR, S3, Redshift
• You have strong understanding of data quality, governance
• You are a team player, self-driven, highly motivated individual who loves to learn new things

Gold stars:

• Experience in Machine Learning infrastructure
• Experience in Search Engines

We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values, promoting innovation, and building the best products out there. Our success is directly related to the employees that we hire, grow and retain and we believe that our team should reflect the diversity of the customers that we serve.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law. Everyone is encouraged to apply.

Benefits & Perks:

• Equity in Stash
• Flexible Vacation
• Flexible Remote
• Family-Friendly Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plans
• 401k
• Learning & Development & Ergonomic Work Space Stipends
• Commuter Benefits and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee referral bonuses
• Team outings that do not involve trust falls…

Awards & Recognition:

• Forbes Fintech 50 (2019 & 2020)
• Best Digital Bank, Finovate Awards (2020)
• Tearsheet Challenge Awards, Best Banking Card Product – Stock-Back® Card, 2020
• LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year (2019 & 2020)
• Built in NYC’s Best Places to work (2019)
• MarCom Awards Double Gold & Platinum Winner (2018)
• Webby Award Winner for Best Mobile Sites & Apps in the Financial Services and Banking category (2017)
• W3 Awards Winner for Best User Experience (2017)

**No recruiters, please.