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Data Engineer

Company:
Higher People
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Posted:
May 24, 2025
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Description:

Title: Data Engineer

Location: San Francisco (hybrid schedule)

Reporting Structure: This role reports to the CTO

Company Description

With experience across far-ranging banks, Fortune 500 tech co’s, fintech unicorns, and AI experts, our client is built by financial institutions, for financial institutions. Started in 2023 by experienced founders, our client has raised $20 Million and hit $2 Million in ARR faster than any other identity company in history. Today more than 2,000 Financial Institutions and Government Agency customers later, they are revolutionizing the way businesses approach fraud prevention and compliance.

Responsibilities

Looking for a data engineer to assist with data collection across a variety of fragmented data sources available from both government, public, and private databases.

Is this you? We’re looking for the following experience:

ETL (extract, transform, load)

Database design

Primary key, foreign key

Indexing

Partitioning

Access patterns

Migrations

Data pipelining

Core data concepts: ACID transactions, Idempotency, Orchestration

Technologies:

Airflow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GCP Dataflow (aka Apache Beam)

PostgreSQL

Python

Pydantic (a python library)

Distributed systems

Ideal candidates will have experience building data pipelines end-to-end. What does end-to-end mean?

Designing the database schema (i.e. table structure).

Migrating production tables.

Working with large scale data (i.e. terabytes).

Maintaining operational efficiency of databases.

Normalizing disparate schemas to a single unified schema.

#Perks

Hybrid in SF. In office 3 days/week

Flexible PTO

Healthcare, 401K

Smart, genuine, ambitious team

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