EMPOWER OVERVIEW
Empower is shaking up an outdated financial system by providing real opportunity for our customers: the opportunity to get the cash they need, to access fair credit, and to change their financial story. Today, we’re helping millions of people find financial security through machine learning models that evaluate creditworthiness using a more inclusive lens and mobile-first products: Cash Advance, Thrive line of credit, and Petal credit cards. Tomorrow? Creating even more financial paths for our customers (and their wallets) to succeed.
This year, Empower ranked #65 on Inc. 5000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list — our third year in a row cracking the top 100 — and was named by Forbes as one of the 25 Next Billion-Dollar Startups for 2024. Empower was also featured by Forbes on America’s Best Startup Employers list in 2023, and our Thrive line of credit product was named by Fast Company as one of 2022’s Next Big Things in Tech.
Empower is backed by Sequoia Capital, Blisce, and Icon Ventures. Ready to grow your impact and accelerate your career? Take a look at our open roles — we can’t wait to meet you.
THE EMPOWER WAY
Great Expectations: We come up with bold, audacious goals for ourselves and go all out for impact
Owner Mindset: We give every employee latitude to act independently, make smart choices, and move the business forward
Spirited Debate: We love skeptics and seek counter opinions to challenge our personal assumptions and expand our view
Customer Obsession: We listen to understand, empathize, and create a memorable, rewarding experience for our community
Inclusive Collaboration: We believe diverse teams make the best decisions, and we strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
No Jerks Allowed: We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully
WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS
Competitive salary
Generous equity package
Full healthcare benefits
Technology expense reimbursement
Virtual first environment
Job Description
Making data-driven decisions is key to Empowerʼs culture. To support that, we need to scale our data systems while maintaining correct and complete data. We provide tooling and guidance to teams across engineering, product, and business and help them explore our data quickly and safely to get the data insights they need, which ultimately helps Empower serve our customers more effectively. Data Engineers heavily leverage SQL and Python to build data workflows. We use tools like DBT, Databricks, Azure Event Hub and Terraform to orchestrate data pipelines and define workflows. We work with engineers, product managers, business intelligence, credit analysts, and many other teams to build Empowerʼs data strategy and a data-first mindset.
Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.
Responsibilities
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Write secure, clear, well-structured, and performant code using Python, Spark and SQL
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Build, scale, and optimize secure, self-service frameworks for batch and streaming data.
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Automate and streamline data infrastructure updates and CI/CD deployment processes.
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Develop tools and frameworks that enhance data governance and improve data quality standards.
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Partner with stakeholders, such as Analytics, Credit/Risk, Data Science, Product Engineering, and other business partners to meet their data needs.
Basic Qualifications
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4+ years of dedicated data engineering experience, solving complex data pipelines issues at scale.
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Experience building data models and data pipelines on top of large datasets (terabytes of data)
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Experience with SQL as a flexible and extensible tool, and are comfortable with modern SQL data orchestration tools like DBT, Mode, and Airflow.
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Experience working with different performant warehouses and data lakes; Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Databricks.
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Experience building and maintaining both batch and real-time pipelines using technologies like Spark and Kafka/Azure Event Hub.
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Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code IaC tools, and a cloud provider stack AWS, GCP, or Azure).
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Understanding of key metrics of a data ecosystem and experience building infrastructure or data solutions to partner teams
At Empower, we hire for people that push themselves to understand others and seek out ways to challenge their personal assumptions. Our hope is that by fostering such an environment, we strengthen our business and relationships by putting people first. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age, education, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match up to our job description, you should feel empowered to apply regardless!
