Senior Data Engineer

About Altruist

Altruist is the modern custodian built exclusively for independent financial advisors that combines a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing — all in one streamlined solution. Financial advisors across the U.S. have partnered with Altruist to reduce costs, save time, grow their business, and provide better outcomes for their clients. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone — but we can’t do it alone. We’re seeking exceptional talent to join our team. That’s where you come in! 

If you’re passionate about challenging the status quo and making a meaningful impact in the financial advice industry, we’d love to meet you!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

The opportunity

Altruist is entering an exciting phase, and we're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. Altruist is a hyper-growth fintech company on a mission to make financial advice better, more accessible, and affordable. Our team is building a revolutionary platform that reduces barriers to entry into wealth creation and management for financial advisors and their clients. Using Altruist, advisors can work more efficiently and reduce costs, enabling them to help more people. If you're passionate about your craft and looking for an opportunity to make meaningful contributions toward our mission, we’d love to have you join us! 

Your impact

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes
• Build new data integrations based on established requirements
• Collaborate with product and business teams to build and enhance core data models 
• Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues
• Manage data replication, data tooling and support integrations for Redis, ElasticSearch, Postgres and Snowflake databases 
• Provide support to product teams to understand available data marts, how to integrate with the data platform, and evangelize data best practices

What you bring

• Experience - 3+ years of experience working with data lakes and data warehouses (such as Snowflake); at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization. Familiarity with one or more object oriented programming languages (Python or Java preferred)
• Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Technical aptitude - You have strong data modeling and data analysis skills with prior experience working with  
  • Relational and NoSQL databases
  • Data Orchestration tools such as Airflow
  • Data Replication tools such as Debezium and Airbyte
  • Data Management tools such as DBT
  • Integrating with AWS Cloud Services
  • Big data tools such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark etc
  • CI/CD Tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab
• Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
• Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.
• Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
• Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives. 
• Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

San Francisco, CA salary range$147,000—$226,000 USD

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