Branch
Financial Services
SeniorDataEngineer
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“Senior Data Engineer at Branch. Skills: Data engineering, Data pipelines, System ownership. Own end-to-end data systems and pipelines. Design data integrations”
Industry & Context.
Surface edge cases; Surface failure modes
Work in the USA, No sponsorship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of Data Engineering experience, 3+ years of Airflow experience, Expert in Python, Expert in SQL, BS in Computer Science or related field
Nice to Have
Fintech experience, Payments experience, Experience managing Airflow on Kubernetes, Experience with data streaming, Experience with automated ETL
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end data systems and pipelines
Design data integrations
Implement data integrations
Process streaming data
Transform streaming data
Manage workflow orchestration
Define data correctness
Back data correctness with monitoring
Back data correctness with alerting
Back data correctness with integration tests
Build reusable patterns
Build reusable components
Break down ambiguous work
Surface failure modes
Clarify requirements with stakeholders
Communicate tradeoffs
Communicate assumptions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with engineers; Work with stakeholders; Adoptable by other engineers; Adoptable by other processes
Communication Scope
Design reviews; PRs
Full Job Description
About us: Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. About the role: Branch helps millions of workers get paid faster and manage their money better. Our team is responsible for the data that drives many critical processes at Branch, including money movement, automated fraud response, and client reporting. We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. In this role, you’ll work with other engineers and stakeholders to build and maintain the pipelines that power the rest of Branch. You'll drive design decisions, build reusable patterns and components other engineers adopt, and make the tradeoffs across cost, performance, and maintainability that keep our platform fast and trustworthy as we scale. This is a great role for an experienced data engineer who wants to own systems end-to-end and shape how the team builds going forward. Our team is small, high-trust, and values clarity, maintainability, and getting the details right. What You’ll Do Own end-to-end data systems and pipelines, that other teams and customers rely on Design and implement data integrations across multiple backend
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