Data Engineer: Build & Own Scalable Data Pipelines

tastytrade; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental & Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Gym membership

Stock purchase options

Job summary

tastytrade is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Analytics team in Chicago. You’ll own data pipeline architecture, upskill teammates, and influence how we build our data platform.

You’ll work with a full stack data team on end-to-end data pipelines, feature generation, and executive dashboards. Expect design decisions, production code, and collaboration across engineering, analytics, and leadership.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional data engineering experience.
• Hands-on with Airflow, dbt, Python, and SQL in production.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift).

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines to support dashboards and analytics.
• Own pipeline architecture, performance, and observability.
• Make architectural decisions, including schema design and tooling.
• Write ELT code with Git-based deployments and tests.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and engineers on data products.
• Lead data quality initiatives and data validation processes.

Skills

Python

SQL

Airflow

dbt

Git/GitHub

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Data quality

Agile

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Prefect

Dagster

Tableau

ArgoCD

Excel

Job description

tastytrade is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Analytics team in Chicago. You’ll own data pipeline architecture, upskill teammates, and influence how we build our data platform.

You’ll work with a full stack data team on end-to-end data pipelines, feature generation, and executive dashboards. Expect design decisions, production code, and collaboration across engineering, analytics, and leadership.