Staff Data Engineer, Energy

About GoodLeap:GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018.GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.Position Summary The GoodLeap team is looking for a hands-on Data Engineer with a strong background in API data integrations, Spark processing and data lake development. The focus of this role will be on ingesting production energy data and helping get the aggregated metrics to the many teams in GoodLeap that need them. The successful candidate is a highly motivated individual with strong technical skills to create secure and performant data pipelines as well as support our foundational enterprise data warehouse. The ideal candidate is passionate about quality and has a bold, visionary approach to data practices in a modern finance enterprise. The candidate in this role will be required to work closely with cross-functional teams to effectively coordinate the complex interdependencies inherent in the applications. Typical teams we collaborate with are Analytics Reporting, Origination Platform engineers and AI developers. We are looking for a hardworking and passionate engineer who wants to make a difference with the tools they develop.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement data integrations across the organization as well as with business applications
• Develop and maintain data oriented web applications with scalable web services
• Participate in the design and development of projects, either independently or in a team
• Utilize agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Be the data stewards of the organization upholding quality and availability standards for our downstream consumers
• Be self-sufficient and fully own the responsibility of executing projects from inception to delivery
• Provide mentorship to team members including pair programming and skills development
• Participate in data design and architecture discussions, considering solutions in the context of the larger GoodLeap ecosystem

Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• 6-10 years of full-time Data Analysis and/or Software Development experience
• Experience with an end to end reporting analytics technology: data warehousing (SQL, NoSQL) to BI/Visualization (Tableau, PowerBI, Excel)
• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience with DataBricks/Spark processing
• Expertise with relational databases (including functional SQL/stored procedures) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search)
• Experience with orchestrating data pipelines with modern tools such as Airflow
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with open source web frameworks (e.g. Vue /React)
• Solid understanding of performance implications and scalability of code
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (IAM, Cognito, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation)
• Experience with messaging paradigms and serverless technologies (Lambda, SQS, SNS, SES)
• Experience working with server-less applications on public clouds (e.g. AWS)
• Experience with large, complex codebases and know how to maintain them

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