Staff Data Engineer

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

What you'll do

• Help shape the technical direction of a domain within the Data@ organization.
• Build a reliable and scalable single source of truth core model data product for internal and external analytics and enable self-service.
• Partner with product, data analyst, engineering teams and other data engineers to translate business requirements into data models with measurable transformation quality under SLA.
• Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance data processing systems and visualization to ensure reliability and meet critical business requirements.
• Lead data engineering projects, and overall strategy for data governance, security, privacy, quality, and retention.
• Mentor data engineers and continue promoting data engineering and analytics tooling & standards.

What we look for

• 7+ years of experience in data modeling, data architecture, and other areas directly relevant to data engineering.
• Technical leadership; capable of handling mentorship, cross functional project execution, and solid individual contributions.
• Advanced SQL, ETL pipelines, Data modeling & design, SQL performance tuning in OLAP and Data Warehouse/Data Lake environments
• Proficiency with programming languages (e.g. Python) and Data Warehouse technologies (NoSQL, logging, columnar, Snowflake, etc.), Big Data technologies (e.g Hadoop, Spark, etc.), analytics (Looker, Tableau, etc.)
• Familiar with data governance frameworks and Agile methodology
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; able to effectively collaborate with technical and business partners.
• Eager to learn new things and have a growth mindset.
• BS/MS degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Location   We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company! This role can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of Quebec). Remote based employees may occasionally travel to an Affirm office for meetings or team building events. Our offices in San Francisco, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Salt Lake City will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis.
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