Machine Learning Data Engineer

Best Egg is a consumer financial technology platform that aims to help people feel more confident about their everyday finances through a suite of products and resources. Our digital financial platform offers simple, accessible, and personalized financial solutions including personal loans, credit cards, flexible rent product and a financial health resource center. Our culture and values are one of the core reasons why our customers keep returning to Best Egg. We are committed to championing a culture of inclusiveness and diversity of thought, and we focus on providing a safe, flexible, and collaborative work environment. Our associates are encouraged to engage in creative problem solving, and we promote opportunities for growth and enrichment across the organization. 
If you are inspired by inspiring others, Best Egg is the place for you.
Best Egg celebrates diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we will grow.
Data is at the heart of everything we do. Join a Data Science team working at the cutting edge within our industry and constantly advancing our ML practice. Our Data Science team is dedicated to creating machine-learning models that power innovation and creative insights that pioneer new products and help our business reach the next level. We work on diverse projects across all business units within the company and have a direct engagement model between data scientists and business stakeholders.
In this role you will support Data Science by curating our training data within our enterprise feature platform, building engineered data features, data pipelines, and monitoring inference data quality in real-time. These activities will enable our AI projects spanning the business from credit risk, direct marketing targeting, fraud operations, and many more! Enjoy the stability of a profitable, award-winning fintech and challenge yourself with plenty of growth and upward mobility within a data-rich environment. Be a part of a growing team using the latest tools and technologies to disrupt the industry and empower our customers to reach their financial goals. 

Role highlights

• Take ownership of a rich data environment feeding our machine-learning models
• Improve, expand, and streamline our existing data pipelines and build brand new ones to help support adaptive ML models at enterprise scale
• Be a leader in sourcing new external data sources, and conduct feature engineering to further enrich and unlock the value of existing data sources
• Help maintain and expand an Enterprise Feature Platform to enable data streams to our models at training and inference
• Build and maintain centralized feature pre-processing pipelines to feed the Feature Repository and our models
• Help data scientists build and maintain enterprise customer attributes to facilitate exploratory analysis and model training
• This is an excellent opportunity to expand your Data Engineering knowledge and experience with cloud and distributed systems practices
• Enjoy a culture rich in learning and frequent small wins, we help drive design decisions, product decisions, and revenue wins made across the entire business

To be successful in this role

• One to three years of professional Data Engineering experience or work program equivalents in a relevant field
• Experience in operationalization of Data Pipelines using AWS cloud infrastructure a must – including S3, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Sagemaker.
• Proficiency with SQL for Snowflake and its functionalities such as stored procedures, tasks, and Python UDFs
• Proficiency with Python is required, and a good knowledge of Bash and Unix command line toolkit a plus
• Proficiency with API and JSON interfaces for real-time and batch ETL processing
• Experience with Data Engineering in a Machine Learning context, or working with enterprise Feature Repositories (ex. AWS Feature Store) preferred
• Experience with Graph databases such as AWS Neptune and the querying language such as Gremlin or SPARQL a plus
• Exposure to machine learning fundamentals such as training data, models, metrics, train/serve skew
• A love of data, building new processes, and continuous learning
• Demonstrated self-motivation and willingness to dive into complicated Data Engineering challenges
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and strong technical communication skills
• Enjoy a culture rich in direct communication, no politics, and continual learning - where we celebrate success and have fun too

In addition to semi-monthly salary payments, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.  Base salary range $65,000 - $104,000, annual bonus target 10% of base.

Our Brand: At Best Egg, we believe money should be accessible so people can reach their goals, live a fuller life, and feel pride in knowing they have taken control of their finances.  For those who need extra money to achieve the progress they seek in life, Best Egg is the modern solution-minded finance provider that mixes decades of banking experience with smart technology and deep customer insight to create products designed for today’s borrower, so that people can establish a smoother financial path. The egg symbolizes protection and a fresh start.  
Employee BenefitsBest Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):·       Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program·       Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-- term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays ·       Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options·       Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts·       Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs·       Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!#LI-REMOTE
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