Data Engineer

About Borrowell:

At Borrowell, we’re on a mission to help Canadians feel confident about their money. We empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by providing the tools and insights needed to understand, build, and use their credit effectively.

Trusted by 1 in 10 Canadians, Borrowell provides over 3 million members with comprehensive credit monitoring and personalized insights. Our innovative services, including Credit Builder and rent reporting, help consumers build credit so they can unlock access to a wider range of financial products at more competitive rates. Additionally, we offer personalized financial product recommendations from Canada’s most trusted providers based on each member’s credit profile and financial goals.

Our team is diverse, inclusive, and driven by a shared passion for making a meaningful difference in the lives of Canadians. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of collaboration, humility, and innovation. If you’re looking to join a company that’s transforming the financial landscape and empowering Canadians to achieve their financial aspirations, we invite you to explore career opportunities at Borrowell. Together, we can help Canadians feel confident about money.

About the role:

As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role building and maintaining our data infrastructure and working with latest technologies such as Snowflake, Apache Airflow, DBT, serverless functions and Docker. You will be working closely with other data and business functions to develop solutions that drive both business analytics and insights as well as data driven applications.

During your first year, you can expect to:

• Implement end to end data pipelines to extract and transform data from a variety of sources including unstructured and fully structured data for multiple business initiatives
• Design and implement reusable base data models in Snowflake to support multiple functions such as analytics, data science and marketing
• Optimize data pipelines with a focus on data quality to improve data observability
• Work cross functionally with other data and business functions to champion data engineering initiatives and ensure that projects are delivered on time aligned to stakeholder expectations
• Hold an impactful role in contributing to data infrastructure decisions/implementations

• 2+ years experience building end to end ETL/ELT data pipelines 
• Experience working with:
• Object-oriented and functional scripting languages (Python)
• Query authoring (SQL) as well as practical familiarity with relational databases
• Data modelling techniques for data warehousing
• Data platforms (Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery)

Nice to Haves: 

• Experience working with: 
• Data transformation tool (DBT)
• Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow/Dagster)
• Containerized applications (Docker)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Important Qualities:

• Desire to continuously learn how to implement the latest technologies and analytical tools into our tech stack
• Willingness to embrace and act upon feedback
• Open and transparent communication, ability to adjust communication to suit both technical and non-technical audiences

• The Opportunity - join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping Canadians feel confident about money.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
• Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
• Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
• WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
• Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
• Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
• Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy

We are remote-first across Canada with an office in Toronto. This role requires you to attend in-person meetings and team-building events.

At Borrowell, one of our core values and firm beliefs is that diversity makes us better. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for candidates who have experience but know that not everyone’s had a chance to demonstrate what they can do. What’s most important is that you have a growth mindset and care about helping people with their finances - an area in their lives that causes a lot of stress.

Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the work we do, clearing a credit and criminal record check is a condition of employment.

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Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.