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Data Engineer

Stride Funding

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Software Engineering, Data Science

Boston, MA, USA

Posted 6+ months ago

About Stride

Stride Funding is a venture-backed, mission-driven start-up that is transforming access to higher education by offering an alternative to traditional loans. Stride believes in the power of education to create economic mobility and also believes that funding providers should not just provide students with capital but should also help students identify the highest value programs and optimal paths toward their career dreams. We seek to increase educational access by leveraging alternative data sets and innovative modeling techniques to offer students outcomes-driven funding products based on their future career trajectory rather than their historical family credit profiles. You can play a role in creating meaningful change every day by doing work you truly love! We’re looking for a talented, self-driven team member who is looking to contribute to Stride’s growth and connectivity.

About the Role

We are seeking a Data Engineer to build & operate reliable data pipelines that ingest and make accessible to our team and partners the data on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of student loans, educational enrollment statuses and employment data.

The ideal candidate has both analytics and programming experience (SQL and Python) and is passionate about both high-performance data pipelines as well as the business side of FinTech. We operate a modern and scalable data pipeline using Airflow, DBT and Kubernetes and this candidate will help us improve the capabilities, reliability and efficiency of our system as we scale the business an order of magnitude in 2023 and beyond.

At Stride we run a DevOps culture where the engineers have full ownership of the code they write & the infrastructure on which it runs. Candidates should be enthused about making substantial contributions to the architecture driving the product roadmap and the Stride business, and achieving tremendous personal growth with us along the way!

About Stride Engineering

The Stride team is a small and diverse (LGBTQ+ friendly) set of engineers passionate about developing high-quality software and inspired by the mission to transform access to education. The team is based in Boston and loves whiteboarding, table-top/board games, oxford commas, and hot sauce.

Our tech stack is modern but practical & proven and combines: - Frontend - React, Next.js, TypeScript, Material UI, Recoil- Backend - Django (Python 3.9)- Data Tier - Airflow, DBT, Postgresql- Infrastructure - Docker, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm

Key Responsibilities

Build reliable data integration pipelines & interfaces to ensure that engagement data and financial operating data is regularly synced into our data lake and accessible to our business users and partners
Partner with stakeholders in finance, operations and business development departments to ensure that their data sets are reliably ingested into our data warehouse and their questions or reports can be answered programmatically
Build new underlying data pipeline operators and integrations in the open-source Airflow project in order to programmatically access upstream data sources
Ensure via automated testing and edge case handling that we can detect any errors with upstream data or data processing and that all reports contain the data as expected
Build up our Business Intelligence system to make available the relevant data warehouse data sets and enable stakeholders to have direct access to self-service reports and dashboards
Iterate on our data pipelines to improve their processing speed and resource efficiency
Support Stride’s data science team through back-end development and testing of new ML methodologies being deployed to improve pricing and income prediction
Support Stride’s engineering & product teams by anonymizing upstream data sets to ensure that our development & staging environments protect consumer privacy but also enable rapid iterations on our product
Participate in on-call rotations and ensure by building self-healing and resilient systems and leveraging infrastructure as code and monitoring tools that our systems are highly available

You Will:

Develop backend ETL jobs and data pipeline code using Python and SQL
Advance as an engineer by pushing yourself to learn new tools & techniques in technical disciplines ranging from analytics engineering, to consumer data privacy & security, to data science modeling and more
Ensure through effective code reviews and feedback on team processes and work product that we continue to hone our engineering craft and improve team velocity
Improve how we build and continually release software via our CI/CD systems with the goal of trusting in the code we write and being able to quickly and reliably iterate and learn in Production environments
Directly engage with the Stride executive team, and employees across other departments, customers, and partners to better understand the end-user experience and how engineering can maximize impact
Write and present on the innovative work you do at Stride to grow both your and Stride’s brands, leveling up those around you and giving back to the community

You Have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent bootcamp or upskilling program experience
2+ years working in a SaaS startup regularly delivering features, or equivalent experience building similar web applications
2+ years’ experience with elements of the following technologies:
---- Data Analytics: Airflow, DBT
--- Business Intelligence Systems: Tableau, Looker, Sisense, Apache Superset, etc.-
--- Languages: Python
---- Databases: SQL; NoSQL a bonus-
--- Bonus
-- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS or Google Cloud Experience
---- Bonus -- DevOps: Experience with modern cloud and container tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

You Are:

Energized by working in early stage startups
Passionate about Stride’s mission and interested in both FinTech and EdTech
Intrinsically motivated, looking to make an impact, and collaborative
Effectively and respectfully are able to communicate the complexities of technical programs to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
A voracious learner--willing to roll your sleeves up to rapidly acquire competencies in a wide range of technical disciplines
Excited by the opportunity to grow into a technical leader at a high-growth tech startup
A compassionate and conscientious team-player
Able to give and receive radically candid feedback
Committed to inclusivity and accessibility in the work you do and the products you ship

What You Get In Return:

Competitive cash and equity compensation
Unlimited PTO
Health benefits (health & dental), 401k
Individual learning & development opportunities
Bi-Weekly lunch & learns (lunch provided!)

At Stride Funding, we are committed to building and fostering a culture where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to create a better experience for everyone. However you identify and whatever background you bring, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work each day. Come prepared to demonstrate your passion and drive as part of our warm, mission-oriented, tight-knit team. Tell us what makes you tick. Show us what you’ve been up to and we will do the same!

Additional Information

We are an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.