Data Engineer

WHO IS RATEHUB?

We’re a company on a mission - We are a unique Canadian Fintech that is the one stop shop for all financial needs of the consumer - Save, Spend, Borrow, Invest, and Protect. Every single team member, from product & engineering to sales & marketing, finance, operations, and everything in between is obsessed with one thing;  helping Canadians make better financial choices. And we’re pretty great at it, too. Via our digital application technology and our award-winning in-house brokerages, we help over 2M Canadians per month make a positive impact on their finances. We have many unique businesses - a mortgage brokerage, a life insurance brokerage, a home and auto insurance brokerage, a mortgage originations and servicing business, a Financial Services Marketplace and a content business across Ratehub and MoneySense. 365 days a year we deliver our users the best online mortgage experience, personalized Credit Card and Loans options, and cheaper auto & home insurance policies than they typically get from their existing financial adviser. 

Changing how people make financial choices isn’t easy, though. We know that achieving our mission is full of challenges; challenges that can be complex and often unexpected, but that are always interesting, rewarding, and fun to solve as a team. This is where you come in. We are on the hunt for the right kind of people to join us and help lead us forward to continued growth.

We have a newly created Data Team that is capturing data, analyzing it, harvesting it, modeling it to provide meaningful insights to our Members and to our businesses. We’re looking for a top performing Data Engineer to join this team, which will be the backbone of all the businesses! Reporting to the Lead Data Engineer, the Data Engineer is a critical member of Ratehub’s team who will drive decision making across the company. You will work on high impact projects with business and engineering stakeholders, and enable the use of data to solve long-term and immediate business problems. The ideal candidate has strong communications skills, a passion for data, a background in engineering and an interest in personal finance. You will get the opportunity to work closely with the other engineers, analysts as well as the business stakeholders to learn different parts of the business and provide valuable support. Although headquartered in downtown Toronto, Ratehub is a remote-first company and as such, we’re open to remote candidates.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design and deployment of the Insurance BU data infrastructure.
• Build and deploy pipelines to automate manual financial tasks, including the ingestion and transformation of unstructured data (PDFs, XLS, etc.) to streamline billing and reconciliation.
• You will be responsible for creating clean, modular, and easily maintainable data pipelines by transforming complex structured code and convoluted queries.
• Proactively drive technical decisions by demonstrating an aptitude for understanding business goals.
• Collaborate with engineering and business teams to deliver solutions offering real business value.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional data engineering experience.
• Proficiency using: Airflow, DBT, SnowFlake, AWS or GCP, Python and SQL.
• Experience with DevOps, Machine Learning, and Mongo DB will be considered an asset.

Core Competencies

• Prefers simple, maintainable solutions over complex abstractions.
• Comfortable providing candid feedback in any context.
• You prefer an incremental delivery approach. You get a working version into production to support the team while making refinements over time. Iterate then increment. 
• Ability to leverage Gen AI in accelerating development while ensuring all output is audited and held to rigorous software engineering standards.

Culture Fit:

• No Ego: No task is too big or small.  You are never afraid to ask questions when you are trying to learn and understand things. You have no problem rolling up your sleeves and helping to execute when the team needs help. This humility extends to all aspects of your work and interaction with teammates.
• Player Coach: You mentor and teach as you execute.  You model the behaviour you expect from your team. You don’t just tell others what to do, you know and show how to do it at a high standard. 
• Growth mindset: You have a desire to always continue to grow and learn. This means a willingness to get outside your comfort zone and try new things because you view these as opportunities to gain skills and knowledge.
• Helping Hand: You always offer to help without having to be asked. You go the extra mile to help out regardless of your team and function.
• Get S##T Done: Your bias is towards action. This means pitching in and rallying to get things across the finish line. Rather than putting off work ask yourself what you can do today to move the needle on a project or goal.
• Digs Deep: You aren't afraid to ask questions because you want to understand every issue so that you can properly solve the root cause of the problem instead of just completing the task you are given.