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Full-timeRemote, US

Senior Data Engineer

at Branch

Branch is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their Data Engineering team, responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines that power critical processes including money movement, automated fraud response, and client reporting. This role involves owning data systems end-to-end, driving design decisions, and building reusable patterns that other engineers adopt while making tradeoffs across cost, performance, and maintainability.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end data systems and pipelines that other teams and customers rely on
  • Design and implement data integrations across multiple backend business systems, ensuring efficient and reliable data flows
  • Work on streaming data processing using frameworks like Apache Beam to handle real-time data ingestion and transformation
  • Build and maintain APIs to enable seamless data access and sharing across internal teams and platforms
  • Manage orchestration and automation of workflows using Airflow on Kubernetes
  • Define what "correct" means for the data you own, and back it with monitoring, alerting, and integration tests
  • Build reusable patterns and components (hooks, plugins, alerting utilities) that are easily adoptable by other engineers and processes
  • Break down ambiguous work into actionable tasks, surface edge cases and failure modes early, and clarify requirements with stakeholders
  • Communicate tradeoffs, assumptions, and risks clearly in design reviews and PRs
  • Drive design decisions and shape how the team builds going forward

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Data Engineering experience
  • 3+ years of Airflow experience
  • Expert in Python and SQL
  • Strong working knowledge of Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, GCP
  • BS in Computer Science or related field
  • Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer
  • Previous work experience in Fintech, Payments, or related industries (nice to have)
  • Experience with managing Airflow on Kubernetes (nice to have)
  • Experience with data streaming (Apache Beam, Dataflow) (nice to have)
  • Experience with automated ETL (Fivetran, HighTouch) (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $160-175k
  • Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Stock options
  • Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription
  • Monthly home-office stipend
  • 401k (TransAmerica)
  • 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • Flexible time off + sick and safe time
  • 11 paid company holidays
  • Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option
  • Remote-first work environment

Skills

PythonSQLAirflowSnowflakeDBTGCPApache BeamKubernetesDataflowFivetranHighTouch

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