Hybrid Data Engineer Intern — Fintech Analytics & Pipelines

NinjaHoldings; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Downtown Chicago HQ

Mentorship from senior engineers

Job summary

NinjaHoldings in Chicago is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to gain hands-on experience supporting our data infrastructure. You will work with senior data engineers and collaborate with teams across Engineering, BI, and Data Science to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and scalable.

The internship runs May through August 2027 with a hybrid setup at our downtown Chicago HQ (in-office 2x/week). Local candidates or those able to relocate are welcome; relocation assistance is not provided.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a CS/Data Eng degree; strong SQL fundamentals.
• Understanding of relational databases and SQL basics.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts (row vs column storage).
• Interest in ELT processes and data modeling.
• Strong problem solving and attention to detail.
• Clear communication and eagerness to learn from senior team members.

Responsibilities

• Learn how to manage and optimize relational databases (Postgres, MS SQL Server).
• Assist in building and monitoring data pipelines for BI and Data Science teams.
• Support the setup and scaling of our data warehouse stack (Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT).
• Contribute to performance tuning tasks at query, table, and database levels.
• Help establish monitoring and alerting for production data systems.
• Gain hands-on experience with ELT data pipelines and best practices.
• Learn how to work with data in cloud environments like AWS.
• Write automated warehouse data model tests.

Skills

SQL basics

Data modeling

ELT concepts

Problem solving

Communication

Learning mindset

Education

CS / Data Eng degree candidate

Tools

Python

Ruby

Snowflake

DBT

Fivetran

Terraform

Job description

NinjaHoldings in Chicago is seeking a Data Engineering Intern to gain hands-on experience supporting our data infrastructure. You will work with senior data engineers and collaborate with teams across Engineering, BI, and Data Science to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and scalable.

The internship runs May through August 2027 with a hybrid setup at our downtown Chicago HQ (in-office 2x/week). Local candidates or those able to relocate are welcome; relocation assistance is not provided.