Remote Senior Data Engineer — Finance Data Pipelines

Visa Hunt; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 188,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Finance Data Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team, focusing on building scalable data pipelines for financial reporting. You will collaborate with accounting, billing, and revenue teams to deliver reliable financial data solutions.

The role emphasizes ownership, autonomy, and the ability to shape the data architecture for the company’s financial systems. Remote-friendly with flex-first policy in Canada.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data).
• Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
• Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment.
• Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind.
• Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool).
• Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
• Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts.
• Adept at fluently communicating with many cross‑functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets.
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
• Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self‑serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions.
• You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization.
• You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution.
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization‑wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap.
• You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud warehouses

Python

Airflow

Spark

Iceberg

Delta Lake

SQL

dbt

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data immutability

Cross-functional communication

Shipping high quality solutions

Working with large codebase

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Python

Airflow

Spark

Iceberg

Delta Lake

dbt

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Finance Data Engineer to join the Data Infrastructure team, focusing on building scalable data pipelines for financial reporting. You will collaborate with accounting, billing, and revenue teams to deliver reliable financial data solutions.

The role emphasizes ownership, autonomy, and the ability to shape the data architecture for the company’s financial systems. Remote-friendly with flex-first policy in Canada.