Data Engineer
Data Engineer
Who we are
M1 Finance has created a personal wealth-building platform made for the modern era, uniting personal perspective and automated ease. We seamlessly combine free investing, low cost borrowing and digital checking all in one intuitive, automated Finance Super App, and we’re driven by a mission to empower personal financial well-being. We believe that financial well-being is fundamental to overall well-being, and we strive to deliver products that are simpler, smarter, and stronger than those created by our competitors.
Our clients have already trusted us with over $6 billion of assets, we’re currently helping hundreds of thousands of people grow and manage their wealth with our industry-leading automation and tools, and we’re adding thousands of new clients every day.
We’re looking for passionate people who want to improve and build on what we’ve created and take responsibility to help others build something meaningful and sustainable for their futures.
We mean it when we say. “M1 is yours to build.”
If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to have you read on.
What we’re looking for
Data is at the heart of decision-making for every team at M1, and that makes data engineering a uniquely impactful and fast-paced role. As engineers, we bring passion and craftsmanship to our work, and we hold data engineering to the same high standard of technical excellence as the rest of M1. Our culture of mutual respect and support allows us to work through complex technical problems together, and everyone on the team is empowered to make architectural decisions and own the consequences.
We’re proud of our state-of-the-art tech stack – a cloud-native architecture built on Kubernetes and AWS, using S3 and Redshift for storage and analytics, with Airflow, dbt, and Dataiku for orchestration, reporting, and machine learning, respectively. We love Python and SQL in particular, but experience with Scala or Terraform is a plus as well, for interfacing with our backend or infrastructure tiers.
We are looking for a passionate individual to join our team -- someone who realizes the value in collaboration, pair programming, and continuous self-improvement; is unafraid to venture into undocumented territory; believes the most interesting problems do not have answers yet; shares our company vision, embodies our values, and also recognizes that software development is more than just a job, it is a craft.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with team members across functional areas to design solutions to pressing business problems
- Identify valuable new sources of data and integrate them into M1's data lake and data warehouse
- Work with brokerage and banking operatives to architect automated business processes
- Design and implement cloud-native data pipelines with Python and Kubernetes
- Create self-service platform to solve repeatable analytics and reporting problems
- Solve hard engineering problems like deduplication and masking with declarative SQL
- Implement clean and maintainable code that adheres to industry best practices
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve existing systems
- Contribute product ideas to overall company growth
- Grow alongside an exciting, committed team of engineers who will always help you be your best
Required Qualifications
- 1-3 years of experience in data engineering, data science, or similar fields
- Highly proficient with SQL
- Experience with Python
- Entrepreneurial spirit, self-motivated, growth-minded
- Excellent communicator and collaborator
- General knowledge of investing and personal finance or desire to learn
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or another quantitative field
- Experience with dbt and/or Airflow
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or another cloud environment.
- Experience with S3, Presto, Redshift, Snowflake, or other big data systems.
- Proficient at communicating appropriate technical details to stakeholders
- Knowledge of or interest in Scala
- Knowledge of or interest in functional programming
- Experience with real-time, event-driven streaming data systems
M1's Commitment to Diversity
M1 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different experiences and we're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at all levels of the company. Women, minorities, veterans, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. With our three DEI task forces (internal education, recruiting, and community involvement) and five Employee Resource Groups (Mental Health, Pride, Black, Latinx, and Women at M1) , M1 employees and leaders set aside company time to tackle DEI projects and achieve goals every quarter.
Our Values
Our team embodies our eight core principles and if these principles speak to you – we’d love to talk with you.
- Mission Driven: We will passionately apply ourselves to deliver immense value to our customers, knowing if they succeed, so too will the company
- Extreme Ownership: We think and act like owners. Our focus is building long-term value, not scoring short-term marks. We own everything in our domain, including the outcome and everything that affects it
- Boldness: We want to do things of consequence. Make a difference. We would rather fail at something meaningful than succeed at something trivial
- Bias for action: The best way to make progress is to act
- Economical: Efficiency is important, and we consider both the costs and benefits to our actions
- Team oriented: In working together, we maintain low ego, make everyone feel welcome, assume good intent, trust one another, and seek out different perspectives. We empower our teammates to be at their best.
- Challenged, but not overwhelmed: We are curious people who always want to grow. Growth happens outside our comfort zone. We achieve our potential through consistent, manageable growth
- Integrity: We do the right thing. When we make mistakes, we own and correct them. We would be proud if our actions are shared with our family, friends, and strangers. Everyone can count on us to act according tour values, beliefs, and principles we state we hold. This trust must never be broken.
Our Perks
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Stock options for all employees
- Retirement benefit with employer match
- $500 to spend on home office equipment while working from home
- Stylish M1 swag
- Socially distant team outings, celebrations, and events
- Transparent and open communication
- Office in the Loop with a Game Room and Gym