Data Systems Engineer, Foundation for AI-Powered Credit

January; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

January is hiring its first Data Systems Engineer in New York City to own the data foundation powering every decision. You will shape how data lands, how reports are written, and what consumer offers look like as the business scales.

You’ll build scalable data systems that serve all stages of consumer credit, leverage AI to improve reliability, and define standards that keep data trustworthy across teams. Work closely with engineers, analysts, ops, and product, shaping a function that touches

Qualifications

• You've built and owned a data pipeline end to end.
• You design for failure. Safe replayability, recovery that self heals where possible and has a clear runbook when it doesn’t
• You treat data quality as a key indicator of pipeline health
• You can own migrating a legacy system into a durable data pipeline by identifying the highest impact opportunities first, and you know when to build vs. buy.
• You've collaborated with multiple stakeholders/data consumers, with an ability to manage asks and hold boundaries where they need to be held
• You draw ownership lines through writing and influence instead of authority, and explain tradeoffs equally well to engineers and non-engineers.
• You've already used AI deeply in your own work and want to go further, including by architecting systems that repair themselves.
• You love building 0 to 1, and you want the shape of a function to be yours.
• 4+ years in software engineering, data engineering or data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the data pipeline and foundation for decision making.
• Define scalable data system architecture for all stages of credit.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, ops, and product.
• Set standards for data quality and reliability.
• Build 0 to 1 data systems and AI-enabled tooling.

Skills

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Database design

AI tooling

Stakeholder collaboration

Data architecture

End-to-end ownership

0-to-1 development

Legacy migration

Job description

January is hiring its first Data Systems Engineer in New York City to own the data foundation powering every decision. You will shape how data lands, how reports are written, and what consumer offers look like as the business scales.

You’ll build scalable data systems that serve all stages of consumer credit, leverage AI to improve reliability, and define standards that keep data trustworthy across teams. Work closely with engineers, analysts, ops, and product, shaping a function that touches