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About Borrowell:

Borrowell is a Canadian company whose mission is to make financial prosperity possible for everyone. The first in Canada to offer free credit scores, Borrowell provides educational resources, monitoring, innovative digital tools, and personalized product recommendations to help people feel in control and optimistic about their financial future. Our data shows that Borrowell members reported up to a 100-point increase in their credit score after one year of using select Borrowell products.

With more than 2 million members, Borrowell is one of the largest fintech companies in Canada. We’re proud to have been named as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada every year since 2019, Globe and Mail’s Top Growing Companies (2021), LinkedIn’s Top 15 Startups in Canada (2021), CB Insights’ Top 250 Fintechs (2021), Best Places to Work in Tech, and Best Places to Work for Women.

To support us on our mission, we’re building an exceptional team of high-performing yet humble individuals who believe Canadians deserve more choice when it comes to financial services.

Put simply, we put people first. We place a high value on building a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to have a gender-balanced team. We know that diverse teams perform better; half of our team identify as women or non-binary.

We’re always on the lookout for passionate and driven people. If you think you’d be a great fit at Borrowell, read on to learn more about us and how our business works!

About the Role:

As a Data Engineer, you will be creating and maintaining the data pipelines working with latest technologies like Snowflake, DBT, Apache Airflow, Azure Functions, and Looker, and overall getting your hands dirty with large data sets. You will be engaged in identifying, designing, and implementing process improvements for the team.

During your first year, you can expect to:

• Hold an impactful role in contributing to data infrastructure decision-making and implementations, as well as creating data pipelines for net new B2C core products
• Consistently evaluate our existing data engineering tech stack, looking for optimizations and improvements
• Maintain the Snowflake data warehouse using DBT
• Work with internal stakeholders to collect data for measuring their key performance metrics
• Design data pipelines to extract data from a variety of sources, including unstructured, semi-structured, and fully structured data

• Working experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
• Experience with:
  • Relational and non-relational databases
  • Query authoring (SQL) as well as practical familiarity with a variety of databases
  • Object-oriented and functional scripting languages (Python)
  • Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow)
  • REST APIs

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working with:
  • DBT and Snowflake
  • Serverless functions
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Terraform
  • Bash/PowerShell scripting and knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps)
  • Event hubs
  • GDPR/CCPA policies
  • Data visualization tools (Looker/Tableau)

Our Engineering Team Values

1. We work well as a team and collaborate always!
2. We are humble and open to each others' ideas and opinions
3. We are not afraid of making mistakes and we are always learning
4. We are persistent about solving problems we are facing
5. Change is good and welcomed
6. We are always willing to take on new challenges
7. We are not afraid to say, "I don't know," or, "I need help"
8. We take ownership over our platform and the work that we deliver
9. We communicate clearly to ensure we collaborate well
10. We find the simplest solutions possible for the hardest problems

• The Opportunity - join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping make financial stability possible for everybody
• Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
• Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
• Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
• Wellness Benefit - $600 annually to spend on whatever brings you joy
• WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
• Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
• Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
• Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy

We are remote-first across Canada, meaning you have no mandatory obligation to come in-office unless you choose to do so - you decide what is best for you. Our offices are located in Toronto, Kelowna, and Montreal, with teams distributed primarily in Ontario and BC.

At Borrowell, one of our core values and firm beliefs is that diversity makes us better. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for candidates who have experience, but know that not everyone’s had a chance to demonstrate what they can do. What’s most important is that you have a growth mindset and care about helping people with their finances - an area in their lives that causes a lot of stress.

Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the work we do, clearing a credit and criminal record check is a condition of employment.

Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.

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