Senior Data Engineer

Clearco is the world’s largest e-commerce investor. Our equity-free capital products intend to help businesses scale while maintaining 100% ownership and control. Clearco is growing and we’ve already been able to fund 5500+ businesses in 7 countries. Clearco has funded 25x more female founders than traditional Venture Capital and is removing barriers to access capital for underserved groups. The Clearco vision is simple: remove the obstacles between brilliant ideas and brilliant businesses.

The role of the Senior Data Engineer is to lead and build pipelines and solutions for the analytic and product challenges surrounding the features and vision of Clearco.  

Application deadline: ongoing

Compensation + Benefits:

Competitive Salary + Stock Options + Flexible PTO + Mental Health Support (Inkblot & EAP) + Medical + Dental/Vision + Work From Home Stipend + Digital Nomad Program + Remote-first work environment + Toronto office available (but not necessary) + External Learning & Professional Development!

Responsibilities: 

• You will own data products end to end, from design and architecture to deployment and maintenance, leading others where necessary through development
• Working closely with every member of the Data Science and MLOps Team, vendors and external partners, you will produce significant components and foundations.
• Collaborate with all functions of Clearco, ranging from core Engineering team to the marketing team
• You be in constant communication with the team to understand what features of the platform need to be built out, and solve bug fixes when necessary
• You will scope out business needs, and action them with speed and accuracy and then lead and execute on it yourself.

What we look for:

• Great communication skills, with a desire or experience to lead a small team of other devs in the near future.
• Desire to help founders. We take a strong founder first stance on this team.
• Be self sufficient when it comes to execution. Figure out how to solve problems and make things happen, not waiting for help or permission.
• On this team, we maximize learning. You will fail if you're not learning fast enough.
• Comfort working in a high growth, constantly changing environment.
• Heavy bias towards action. Ability to solve problems end-to-end on their own. You will implement ideas and experiments on your own with minimal support.
• Have experience working in a senior software engineering role, you are an expert when it comes to coding and you’re ready to roll up your sleeves to get the job done! 
• Have a strong business sense, you can foresee potential issues and solve them quickly
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams.
• Strong interest in building businesses, ecommerce and fintech.

Technical Requirements:

• Ideally, you have worked on 3 or more different stacks in your career in a professional setting for at least 8 months each.  This means you probably have between 2 years and 6 years of experience.  Bonus points for systems managing time-series
• Able to architect and scale data integrations (Shopify, Paypal, Plaid, etc.) from third-party API docs independently, extracting the right business value for the vision and roadmap
• Interested and able to prototype solutions that might not scale to 1,000,000 users but can get the job done while we derisk the business outcomes
• Comfortable working in server and database environments that are changing constantly
• Comfortable in a fast pace, changing roadmap team building the plane after jumping off the cliff
• Comfortable with relational databases and schemas involving time-series
• Skills and interest in Python, SQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes and pipeline management/orchestration tools (Eg. Airflow, Argo)
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar (AWS, Azure) 

Clearco is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Clearco, we’re committed to developing and upholding an inclusive, transparent, and comfortable environment for all. We create a space where every voice, perspective, and idea is heard and acknowledged. We embrace differences, and know that our diverse team is our strength and what drives our innovation. 

Clearco is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please let us know and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.