Senior Data Engineer - Remote, Fintech Data Pipelines

Branch App; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading health insurance

Stock options

Origin Financial Wellness subscription

Monthly home-office stipend

401k (TransAmerica)

12‑weeks paid parental leave

Flexible time off + sick and safe time

11 paid company holidays

Same Day Pay Option

Job summary

Branch is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will own end-to-end data pipelines powering money movement, fraud response, and reporting, shaping scalable systems as Branch grows.

You will design reusable data patterns, build real-time processing with Apache Beam, and ensure data quality with monitoring, tests, and robust APIs across internal platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Airflow experience.
• Expert in Python and SQL.
• Strong working knowledge of Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, GCP.
• BS in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data systems and pipelines, that other teams and customers rely on.
• Design and implement data integrations across multiple backend business systems, ensuring efficient and reliable data flows.
• Work on streaming data processing using frameworks like Apache Beam to handle real‑time data ingestion and transformation.
• Build and maintain APIs to enable seamless data access and sharing across internal teams and platforms.
• Manage orchestration and automation of workflows using Airflow on Kubernetes.
• Define what “correct” means for the data you own, and back it with monitoring, alerting, and integration tests.
• Build reusable patterns and components (hooks, plugins, alerting utilities) that are easily adoptable by other engineers and processes.
• Break down ambiguous work into actionable tasks, surface edge cases and failure modes early, and clarify requirements with stakeholders.
• Communicate tradeoffs, assumptions, and risks clearly in design reviews and PRs.

Skills

Python

SQL

Airflow

Data Engineering

Snowflake

DBT

GCP

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Apache Beam

Dataflow

Fivetran

HighTouch

Job description

Branch is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will own end-to-end data pipelines powering money movement, fraud response, and reporting, shaping scalable systems as Branch grows.

You will design reusable data patterns, build real-time processing with Apache Beam, and ensure data quality with monitoring, tests, and robust APIs across internal platforms.