Nitrogen

Auburn, CA
201-500 employees
The growth platform for wealth management firms. Makers of Riskalyze. Helping financial advisors empower the world to invest fearlessly since 2011.

Senior Staff Data Engineer

Senior Staff Data Engineer

WHAT WE DO

Nitrogen has been revolutionizing how financial advisors and wealth management firms engage with their clients since the launch of Riskalyze in 2011. Today, Nitrogen offers an integrated client engagement software platform featuring risk tolerance, proposal generation, investment research, and financial planning tools designed to help firms and financial advisors deliver personalized advice. We invented the Risk Number®, built on top of a Nobel Prize-winning academic framework, and are the champions of the Fearless Investing Movement — tens of thousands of financial advisors are committed to our mission of empowering the world to invest fearlessly.

Nitrogen is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. We are committed to being fair and intentional in our hiring decisions by reviewing every application thoroughly.

THE TEAM

Our Data and Services Team empowers the world to invest fearlessly by leveraging AI tools and deep technical expertise to build robust data pipelines and products that power advisors and their firms across the wealth management industry.

WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON

As a Senior Staff Data Engineer on the Data & Services team, you’ll lead the design and evolution of the systems that move, transform, and expose data across our platform. This includes building and scaling our data ingestion pipelines from external financial partners, maintaining APIs and services that support those integrations, and shaping the data layer that powers internal analytics and downstream products. You’ll work across teams to ensure our data infrastructure is resilient, well-modeled, and built for long-term maintainability.

The Senior Staff Data Engineer:

  • Advances Nitrogen’s data processing capabilities with your extensive expertise in building large-scale, modern data platforms.
  • Owns the successful delivery of daily data feeds that standardize raw data from numerous sources into our warehouse, and export fresh datasets out to production systems.
  • Champions good data governance, industry best practices, and efficient processing techniques.
  • Delivers high-quality, production-grade features, and reliably meets commitments.
  • Sets a high bar for technical productivity and efficiency through expert use of AI and cutting-edge tools.
  • Provides architectural leadership to ensure scalable designs and code quality.
  • Maintains a deep understanding of what our domain-specific data means to our customers and their product experience.
  • Proactively identifies and addresses technical debt and developer experience needs, and advocates for AI-enhanced solutions where appropriate.
  • Mentors and elevates the technical skills of fellow engineers.
  • Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset in both personal development and all technical workflows.
  • Ensures your technical contributions align with company objectives and expectations.
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