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Passionate About Data and Want to Join a Diverse Team at a Fast Growing Fintech Startup?https://octane.co/o/who-we-are/careers/?gh_jid=4166719003

huiru'shuiru·Sep 12, 2020
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Full-timeNew York, Houston, or Remote - US basedHiI am the hiring manager and lead for the Data Engineering Team at Octane. Our team is currently composed of myself, our amazing Product Manager, a Data Analyst, and three Data Engineers with varying backgrounds and skill levels. Without a doubt, this team is the most diverse team I've ever been on and has further buttressed my belief in diversity. We are on a grand mission to support an amazing company in a super cool space (Powersports!) and would love to find our next senior teammate in data adventuring! You can find the full job details below.Please reach out to me directly here or through Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/huirujiang). I am more than happy to chat in detail about the role, my team, my company, data engineering, or just to network.Thanks for reading!HuiruP.S. Even if your passion isn't data, Octane is hiring across the board so please check out our site! ~~~About OctaneThe $21B Powersports market (motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs, PWCs, snowmobiles) is all about fast and fun, but the purchasing process is slow and frustrating. Octane enables consumers to live their passion by making powersports purchases instant, seamless, and widely available. Octane launched a credit product, branded as Roadrunner Financial, in 2016 to provide financing to prime and near-prime consumers who have historically been underserved by incumbent banks, expanding coverage to 50% of responsible consumers. Together with our automated underwriting and digital buying experience, Octane and RoadRunner cut the time to close a transaction from hours to minutes.We are both the platform and the lender, which means we have both high growth and positive unit economics—rare for a fintech. Octane has raised >$100M in equity from IA Ventures, Valar Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, and other leading investors.What Our Team NeedsThe Octane Data Team is on a mission to empower all Octanes to seamlessly and confidently conduct rigorous analysis, build accurate reporting, and most importantly, make data-driven decisions to propel the business forward. From informing credit policy to creating product enhancements to updating servicing protocols, availability and accessibility of quality data is critical. Our vision is to build out a best-in-class modern data platform by accelerating the data engineering lifecycle through technical and process innovation. We are looking for a passionate Senior Data Engineer to share the ownership and technical vision of the team; a dynamic team player who is inquisitive about our data domain, has a data-as-product mindset, and cares deeply about mentorship. As a senior member of the team, you will build upon your past successes creating and maintaining reliable data pipelines and have a direct impact on our future data strategy and technology roadmap.What You’ll DoMentor/pair program with junior team members to follow engineering best practicesPerform high quality code reviews to ensure standards are met and learn togetherExpose a variety of data sources into a centralized data warehouse capable of supporting analytics, reporting, and visualizationBuild and manage ELT pipeline jobs that is efficient, scalable, and performantDesign and implement secure and auditable cloud data infrastructureCollaborate with teammates and cross functionally to improve products and support data science initiatives.Participate in on-call and scrum rotationsWho You Are5+ years experience working in software and data engineeringExtensive knowledge of ETL/ELT batch processing (bonus points for hybrid streaming and batch approaches), data pipelines, and data warehousesFirm grasp of relational and document data; their use cases and the technologies that manage themProficiency with Python and backend architectureExperience using Spark and SQLExperience using AWS (bonus points for experience working with EMR, EKS, Lambda) or other cloud services providerExperience using workflow management frameworks such as Airflow, Luigi, etc.Experience working with data that has regulatory, privacy, auditing, and security requirements (ideally in the Consumer Lending Industry) BenefitsRobust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)Generous Parental LeaveUp to 5 weeks PTO (self-managed)Retirement Plan (401k) with Company contribution Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life insurancePre-Tax Commuter BenefitsTeam Activities (remotely)Monthly company gift
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