Data Engineer

| Greater LA Area | Remote
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Aspiration is in the business of fighting the climate crisis. We help people and businesses build sustainable impact into what they do every day by making it easy, automated, and powerful -- whether it is in the ways people spend and save their money or the ways businesses engage their customers and employees. The estimated cumulative climate impact of the Aspiration community thus far is the equivalent of taking every car in the state of Wyoming off the road for a year. Aspiration is a certified B Corporation and, in fact, has been named to the “Best for the World” list of the top five percent of highest scored certified B Corporations four years in a row. Aspiration has raised over $550M in funding to date and is growing quickly.


We are looking for smart and highly motivated individuals of our Data Engineering team to contribute towards the success of Aspiration goals - to bring fair financial products to masses. This is a hands-on technical role and will be responsible for building scalable solutions as it relates to data architecture strategies, data standards, and data integration tools.


What You'll Do

  • Build and extend a scalable and modern data analytical environment.
  • Architect, design and develop end-to-end data pipelines across multiple data sources and systems of record
  • Develop, design data models, data structures for data acquisition and manipulation purposes
  • Build custom metadata-driven frameworks using programming languages as well as leveraging off-the-shelf integration tools, as appropriate
  • Create ETL/ELT processes based on mapping specification documents (STMs)
  • Ensure data quality, integrity, security and completeness throughout the data lifecycle
  • Perform ongoing monitoring, automation and refinement of data engineering solutions
  • Surface data in company chosen BI tool for self-service usage
  • Analytical infrastructure support and enhancement
  • Enable data science team by providing necessary infrastructure and tools
  • Interface closely with product, engineering and business divisions
  • Deep understanding of the cloud offerings and engage in quick proof of concepts and proof of value in prototyping data and analytics solutions and derive viability
  • Ability to interact with the business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate into technical solutions
  • Build and meet project timelines and manage delivery commitments with proper communication to management

What You'll Bring

  • 5+ years of experience with SQL
  • 5+ years of experience in ETL concepts/technologies and data modeling
  • Thorough understanding of relational and analytical databases
  • Strong technical, logical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with working on multiple tasks/projects in parallel
  • Ability to manage multiple deliverables in a highly energized and fast-paced environment within a framework of constantly shifting deadlines and deliverables
  • Ability to manage multiple deliverables in a highly energized and fast-paced environment within a framework of constantly shifting deadlines and deliverables
  • Working experience in a fast-paced and agile environment
  • Ability to work well in a team environment and brainstorm ideas with other team members.
  • Flexibility to adapt to a change and willing to learn and develop new skill sets as applicable
  • Ability to learn new technologies without formal training
  • Experience with ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Matillion, Talend, Pentaho, SyncSort, SSIS is a big plus
  • Experience with BI tools, e.g. Looker, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Cognos, Mode is a big plus
  • Experience in programming/scripting languages (c#/java/bash/powershell /ruby/python) is a big plus
  • Experience with Snowflake,Amazon Redshift, S3, Elastic MapReduce, Hive, and other AWS services, or equivalent technologies is a big plus
  • Experience ingesting and transforming data from APIs is a big plus
  • Experience with real-time data capture, processing, and storing using technologies like Kafka, AWS Kinesis.
  • Prior experience with MPP databases and maintaining a large amount of data processing is a big plus



What You'll Get

  • Work for a mission-driven company to transform the lives of millions by building a better, values-oriented financial firm.
  • Opportunity to be part of and to contribute to ESG, as a steward of social and environmental change.
  • Participation opportunities in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion employee activities and events
  • Robust benefit offerings, including medical, dental, vision and 401k.
  • Parental Leave expansion (12 weeks of paid leave over the course of a year)
  • Pet Insurance and other voluntary benefit plan offerings
  • Unlimited vacation time and 80 hours of sick time annually
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • Work from home setup and equipment reimbursement
  • Semi - annual performance reviews
  • Employee Referral Bonus Program



Aspiration is proud to be an ESG company. We are an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity at Aspiration is not just compliance-driven. Diversity is our compass to drive equitable practices; to celebrate individuality; and to foster the uniqueness within each of us that makes our products, services, and culture better than most. Yes, we are proud to be a DEI company and we encourage everyone, inside and outside of Aspiration, to show up as you are and as you want to be, every day.


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