Team Lead, Software Engineering, Reporting, Data and Analytics

Team Lead, Software Engineering, Reporting, Data and Analytics

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Founded in 2014, Even Financial is a B2B fintech company that is transforming the way financial institutions find and connect with consumers, enabling any company to add financial products to their business. As the leading search, comparison, and recommendation engine for financial services, Even seamlessly bridges financial services providers (such as SoFi) and channel partners (such as TransUnion) via its simple yet robust API and embeddable solutions. Even turns any consumer touchpoint into a comprehensive financial services marketplace with full compliance and security at scale. Even was named one of "America's Best Startup Employers'' by Forbes for 2021 and placed in the Top 50 of the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the fastest growing tech companies in the world. In December 2021, Even announced it will be acquired by MoneyLion, a mobile banking and financial membership platform that empowers people to take control of their finances.

We are looking for an experienced engineer and leader to oversee a dedicated data-focused engineering team. In this position, you will lead our Reporting, Analytics, and Data team, a full-stack team composed of data, client-side, and server-side engineers, responsible for moving, processing, and displaying large amounts of data quickly. This team will own reporting and analytics for our partners, delivering actionable data quickly. It offers opportunities to work closely with smart, skilled engineers and subject matter experts on challenging problems involving security, privacy, performance optimization, and observability. If you have people management experience, enjoy working with SQL, and want to hone your skills in those areas of concern to expert levels, this job will be an excellent fit.

Day to Day:

    • Lead and mentor a team of engineers to create great products
    • Validate data, triage discrepancies, and optimize queries with SQL
    • Work with Python in AWS lambdas to manage existing ETL processes
    • Contribute to our service code base in Scala, or help set up Spark
    • Own Even’s data pipeline from its start to its ends, supporting our Business Intelligence and Data Science teams
    • Build the tools our partners use to study and optimize their performance on our platform
    • Recruit, develop, and retain top talent
    • Own software development lifecycle and Agile practices, including sprint planning, retrospectives, etc
    • Review code with an emphasis on readability, maintainability, and standards
    • Provide support for colleagues who depend on your team’s output, tracing data through various areas of the stack
    • Monitor, maintain, and improve observability and alerting for your team
    • Identify opportunities for improving our processes with a focus on efficiency and impact
    • Participate in discussions around feasibility and scope of product initiatives
    • Interface with product, business and other team leads to coordinate resources, define projects and manage work
    • Demonstrate company values and promote them on the team: empowerment, transparency, empiricism, and fearlessness

You may be a fit if you have:

    • 5+ years software engineer experience or a strong academic background in computer science
    • 2+ years demonstrable success leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams, preferably in a high growth, tech start-up environment
    • A very good understanding of various database internals (relational, columnar, memory) at a theoretical level, including how data is stored, changed, and retrieved
    • Experience with site reliability engineering concepts and practices
    • Hands-on experience debugging systems and identifying root causes
    • Successfully built personal relationships and collaborated across organizational boundaries to solve problems and beat expectations
    • Meticulous attention to detail
    • Strong people skills with a well-developed management philosophy, including opinions on process and how teams should operate
    • Understanding of non-technical data-handling concerns including regulatory compliance and best practices with regard to personal information.
    • Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure, containerized services, and CI/CD pipelines
    • Solid understanding of POSIX shells for working with internal tooling
    • Familiarity with basic accounting concepts
Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
Comprehensive medical/dental/vision packages + life and disability insurance
401K retirement plan
Stock options
Uncapped paid time off (PTO)
Company paid holidays + monthly personal holiday 
Membership to Udemy  
Perks including a monthly wellbeing stipend, $200 one time WFH stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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