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Senior Data Engineer
| Company | Acorns |
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| Location | Irvine, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $184500 – $217100 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8 to 10 years of experience with a BS/BA; or 5 years and an advanced degree; or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of Java/Scala/Python experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in an internet facing solution
- Object oriented fundamentals (OOA, OOD, OOP)
- Strong system design fundamentals
- Advanced understanding of SQL and database/data warehouse design concepts
- Understand advanced algorithms, data structures and design patterns
- Experience in building and owning a scalable system, service or process or pipeline designed to handle billions of records
- Hunger to deliver game-changing products
- Exceptional drive and precision in delivery
- A belief that your work is tied to your life’s mission
- Optimistic about the potential of societal change
Responsibilities
- Interface with various parts of business, Products, Project Management, and Leadership.
- Understand data landscape and data flow and processes.
- Fix or enhance production data pipelines.
- Receive operational updates from our GoHenry & PixPay team members during Acorns’ quarterly global virtual all-hands session.
- Work with the engineering leadership team to align, establish and promote engineering-wide priorities, including new features, infrastructure, and tool building.
- Optimize performance of business-critical data processes and identify and resolve data process issues.
- Develop new data pipelines for ingesting, integrating various heterogeneous data sources.
- Design and develop data pipelines to support reliable, timely and accurate computation of business metrics in collaboration with Analytics.
- Propose and promote new ways to solve a problem to gain efficiency and to scale.
- Complete a Performance Development Check-in to align on Performance and Values Rating Trends.
- Contribute and execute on Acorns Data Roadmap.
- Author, propose and execute technical initiatives.
- Define career path opportunities for development.
- Delivered one or more large initiatives and act as a lead or mentor to 1 or more engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Test Driven Development is a plus but not required
- Experience with AWS, Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka or Kinesis is a plus but not required
- Experience with Spark or Databricks is a plus but not required
- Experience with Airflow or Luigi is a plus but not required
- Experience using Data Quality tools such as Amazon Deequ or Great Expectations is a plus but not required
- Experience in Agile Methodology is a plus but not required
