Earnest empowers people with the financial capital they need to live better lives.

We're an accomplished team of technology, finance, and design geeks who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

Our culture is one that values transparency and blameless problem solving. Earnest has experience with employee growth and career progression. Earnies are empathetic, product-focused, proactive, and curious.

As the Lead Data Engineer, you will report to the Head of Data and:

• Help set up backend services in Python that support predictive models or third-party integrations
• Involve writing ETL, ELT tooling, and Data Infrastructure by automating the ingestion of data from production and other external services into the Data Lake and Data Warehouse
• Set up tooling and the abstraction patterns for orchestrating ETLs and other batch jobs that move data into the data-warehouse or from the data-warehouse
• Manage the data engineering backlog and put data product requirements together
• Support cross-functional requirements gathering from engineering/product management, analytics and data science

Ideal background and expertise:

• 6+ years of professional development experience with server-side concepts such as microservices, databases, caching, monitoring, and scalability.
• 4+ years in at least one language used on the team (Python, Scala)
• 3+ years with OLTP databases such as Postgresql, MySQL
• 3+ years with OLAP databases such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift
• 2+ years working with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
• 3+ years with AWS cloud technologies such as S3, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, SNS, Cloudfront, EMR, ELB. 
• 2+ years working with workflow scheduling technologies, such as Airflow, Luigi.
• 1+ years of experience building data infrastructure, DevOps, and knowledge of Terraform

Earnest Perks & Benefits:

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Tuition reimbursement program
• $1000 flight on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world and 25 days of annual PTO
• Great culture with an awesome team

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.