Senior Data Engineer II, Finance

EngineersOfAI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a senior Data/Software Engineer to own and optimize financial data pipelines and modeling. You will partner with finance, accounting, and revenue teams to deliver reliable data solutions and drive the data strategy across the organization.

You will mentor teammates, own critical pipelines from design to execution, and influence the data platform roadmap in a fast-growing environment that values collaboration and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data/Software Engineering focused on financial data pipelines.
• Strong expertise in cloud data warehouses (Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery).
• Proficient in Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, and Delta Lake in production.
• Expert in data modeling for scalable, auditable financial data.
• Expertise with SQL and dbt for complex ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance and accounting to translate pain points into scalable data solutions.
• Own and optimize data integration pipelines and financial data models.
• Lead design discussions and mentor teammates on engineering excellence.
• Drive cross-team initiatives shaping the financial data vision and roadmap.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and auditable financial reporting.

Skills

Data pipelines

Snowflake

Python

Airflow

Spark

SQL

dbt

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Financial data

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Job description

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview

Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.
Finance data engineering is part of the Data Infrastructure team, working closely with accounting, billing & revenue teams to support the monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing and internal/external financial reporting. The team plays a critical role in defining how financial data is modeled and standardized for uniform, reliable, timely and accurate reporting. This is a high impact, high visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart's products.
The team is still small and many of our bigger initiatives are at an early stage. We expect you to work closely with stakeholders and shape these systems from design, technical decisions, project management to execution. Your input will be critical for driving the Finance Data Strategy and building the platform that Instacart's financial data infrastructure will be built upon.

About the Job

• 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.

About You

Minimum 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