Senior Software Engineer, Data

About Caribou    At Caribou, we’re on a mission to help drivers save money and take control of their car payments. Caribou does this by using technology to unlock low rates, and people to make the process easy and enjoyable. We offer a fully online application and a dedicated team to walk you through the process. We put Drivers in control.

Caribou is a hyper-growth company built by leaders from the technology, automotive, and finance industries. We have grown 20x in the past three years and raised a $115M Series C. We’re proud to be backed by a great team of investors, including QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, Accomplice, Link Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures and others.

Caribou is seeking a skilled software engineer to drive data as a first-class citizen across the company. You will be part of the Data Engineering team, building our foundational data platform to drive multiple high-level, high-visibility business decisions and intelligence. You will connect engineering teams with analytics and data science teams to deliver BI solutions and Machine Learning insights for products.

You will participate in defining and championing architectural choices to implement self-service analytics and data requests, retaining data quality and trustworthiness,. 

Your daily tasks will include:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure using batch and streaming pipelines to deliver fit-for-purpose data products
• Guiding and championing architecture of data-related initiatives between engineering and analytics
• Building a platform of in-house and vendor software to empower other engineering and analytics teams with self-serve solutions
• Mentoring, training, and sharing data engineering best practices with others within engineering and analytics departments
• Guiding analytics teams with dbt best practices for the design and development of dbt models and marts fueling BI.
• Designing and guiding dimensional modeling within our data warehouse to support stakeholders in understanding their specific needs using the context of the data lake across our entire company
• Building production-ready Machine Learning Operations frameworks with engineering teams to deliver Data Science insights
• Automate and operationalize data governance workflows (security, quality, and observability) to maintain stakeholder trust in company data
• Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues
• Building internal data tools and frameworks

About You

You most likely identify with many of these qualities:

• 5+ years of work experience in the domain and tech described above.
• Clear and effective communicator in writing, speaking, and coding.
• A collaborator who contributes to enhancing and evolving current processes, so we can succeed as a team.
• Systems thinker who understands the value DevOps is creating a culture of developer-ownership through automation and infrastructure as code
• Empathetic and considerate of not just first-order but second-order and third-order effects of actions taken or not taken.
• Delivers high-quality work quickly, confidently, and with a high degree of intentionality.
• Thinks and operates from the architectural level down to the details. Balances measuring twice and cutting once while always having a plan B for new situations.
• A curious and hungry learner who can apply and share knowledge and a growth mindset with work and colleagues.

Our Core Values   We come from all walks of life and are joined together by our shared values, which guide our work. This helps us improve life for our customers, our communities and our team members.

• See people as people
• Take care of each other
• Commit to the mission
• Move quickly and bravely
• Get better every day
• Seek truth

Caribou is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, marital status, military or protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above, and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.

*Caribou does not currently have employee operations in AL, CT, HI, ID, IA, KY, MS, MT, NE, NM, ND, RI, SD, WV, WY.

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