About Us
Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country. Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money. At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well-being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.
Ready to make an impact? We're looking for an onsite intern to join our team for the 10-week Summer Internship program (May 17 - July 23, 2027) at our headquarters in Wilmington, NC. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, September 28th.
How This Role impacts Live Oak and its People
The Data Engineer Intern will be a key player in the design and implementation of Live Oak’s next generation data warehouse and analytics platforms, building data pipelines, and other core platform capabilities that inform and enable decision making with trusted, high-quality data at Live Oak. The ideal candidate is a self-motived teammate with good problem solving and communication skills with the ability to adapt and learn quickly, provide results with limited direction, and choose the best possible operational decisions.
What You’ll Do at Live Oak
You'll work on a cross-functional scrum team within a scaled agile environment to build out data products that enables our partner teams to analyze, aggregate, and make informed decisions from the highest quality data. Your customers are Finance, Compliance, Lending, and Deposits teams, and your products are high quality, timely data sources and aggregations that empower others to continuously understand and build insights via a self-service model. Below are some of the activities you would be learning to perform on a regular basis.
- Define and create data ingestion patterns, pipelines, and standards that can support self-service analytics users across all bank domains (deposits, loans, checking, etc)
- Be a hands-on contributor that can build data products as needed, from source to target ingestion, transformative data models and data marts that provide high quality, trusted data for self-service consumers.
- Build role-based access controls and fundamental Data Platform management processes that enable growth and scalability within the business teams at the bank
- Participate in continually refining and prioritizing the work necessary to support our analytics tools and processes.
- Help establish and document designs, standards, and user guides to help Product teams consume the data you create.
How You’ll Do It
- You'll build data that matters. We make data available to help small businesses and entrepreneurs get the capital and financial services they need to succeed and support their local communities.
- Your team decides the best technical approach and commitments, not your manager.
- Collaborate with super-smart people to build and deploy next generation data solutions, as we enable capabilities to transform the outdated financial banking system.
- Design, develop, and deliver high-quality, performant and scalable data and analytics solutions suitable to high-impact technical challenges
- Create and evolve Live Oak’s data processing pipelines, including ETL/ELT jobs, events processing, and job monitoring and alerting
- Partner with engineers, data scientists, and senior leadership to define and refine our data analytics architecture and technology choices
- Engage in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle in a cross-functional team setting
Preferred Experience
- 2-6 months of hands-on experience with data modeling and transformation, using tools like SQL, DBT, ascend.io, or Informatica with source code control in Gitlab/Bitbucket
- 2-6 months of experience working with AWS-based data warehouse technologies like Redshift, Databricks, Snowflake
- 2-6 months of experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Glue
- Basic understanding of event-driven and/or streaming workflows with tools like Kafka and Spark
- Ability to work in a team environment and not take yourself too seriously.
- Basic understanding of the Agile methodology and their role within the scrum process
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Our Values
Dedication: Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Bank’s mission and core values, exemplified through a strong work ethic, adaptability and pride in your work.
Ownership: Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems, while maintaining a high degree of quality.
Respect: Treat everyone with courtesy, politeness, and kindness.
Innovation: Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.
Teamwork: Foster collaboration, accountability, and trust with others and understand that together, we do more
For a detailed overview of our employee benefits please visit: http://www.liveoakbank.com/careers/
Live Oak Bank is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. We consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status or disability. Equal access to programs, service and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify human resources at [email protected].
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The base pay range for this position is $19.77 - $32.12 per hour. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long-term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy. A candidate’s salary is determined by several factors including travel, relevant work experience or skills and expertise.Please note that we provide at least the minimum requirement of paid sick leave to our employees who reside in states that require employer-paid sick leave, including but not limited to Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
Skills Required
- 2-6 months of hands-on experience with data modeling and transformation using SQL, dbt, Ascend.io, or Informatica
- Experience using source code control with GitLab or Bitbucket
- 2-6 months of experience with AWS-based data warehouse technologies such as Redshift, Databricks, or Snowflake
- 2-6 months of experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow or AWS Glue
- Basic understanding of event-driven or streaming workflows using Kafka or Spark
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Basic understanding of Agile methodology and the Scrum process
Live Oak Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Live Oak Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Live Oak Bank.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is strong, with fully paid medical for employees and dependents plus on‑site clinic access, physical therapy, and wellness resources at headquarters. Dental, vision, life, and disability coverage are included.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is generous, with roughly four weeks plus bank holidays and floating days, alongside multiple paid parental options and paid short‑ and long‑term disability.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan, complemented by bonus and stock programs in some roles.
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What We Do
Live Oak Bank has had the privilege of helping thousands of passionate, driven people turn their dreams into reality. These everyday heroes aren’t in it for the fortune or the fame. They’re in it to make a difference, just like we are. As one of the last banks to get a charter before the start of the Great Recession, Live Oak emerged out of the rubble of 2008 as the first bank to keep the customer at the center of the business model. We put a groundbreaking spin on what banking could be, focused on service and technology to redefine banking. Live Oak is a digital, cloud-based bank serving small business owners in all 50 states. We are the #1 SBA 7(a) lender by dollar volume* in the country and our mission is to be America’s small business bank. We aim to fulfill that mission through banking products that help business owners buy, build and expand, along with FDIC-insured checking, high-yield savings and CD accounts to grow their hard-earned money. Our family of companies under the holding and parent company Live Oak Bancshares (NYSE: LOB), and our subsidiaries, partner with businesses who share a groundbreaking focus on service and technology to redefine banking. Our mantra is to treat every customer like the only customer and our mission is to be America’s small business bank.
