Data Engineer

About the Role: 

We are looking for a Data Engineer who will assist us building, running and improving the data infrastructure that data and engineering teams use to power their services.  Your duties will include the development, testing, and maintenance of data tooling and services, using a combination of cloud products, open source tools and internal applications. You should be able to build high-quality, scalable solutions for a variety of problems.

Our Company:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose mission is to financially empower young consumers. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the thousands of eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle. 

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Plan, design and build tools and services that improve our internal data infrastructure platform, using Go, Python, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Be on a Pagerduty on-call rotation to respond to production incidents.
• Develop monitoring and alerting of our data infrastructure to detect problems.
• Document the actions you take and produce both runbooks and automation to reduce day to day toil.
• Perform ongoing maintenance of our data infrastructure, such as apply upgrades.
• Take part in the postmortem reviews, suggesting ways we can improve the reliability of our platform.
• Assist product developers in debugging and triaging production issues.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science (preferred) or equivalent tech-related experience

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience with AWS, Redshift, and S3
• Experience with Python and Golang 
• Basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Basic knowledge of a Microservice Architecture
• Familiarity with deployment/provisioning tools like Terraform, Helm, Ansible
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes
• Experience documenting requirements and specification

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others. 

Perks & Benefits: 

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• Generous stock options 
• Medical, dental and vision insurance 
• Life and long term disability insurance 
• 401k with 100% match 
• Collaborative workspace, commuter benefits, full-stocked kitchen, weekly lunches and much more! 
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals 

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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