Amount is the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
As a Data Engineer, you will be enhancing, hardening, and supporting Amount’s Data-related systems such as data pipelines, OLAP data stores, reporting dashboards, and client-facing Data API.
Amount has multiple client-facing platforms including our brand-new, 3rd generation lending platform and the Data Engineering team is responsible for keeping data flowing consistently, accurately, and reliably from these platforms to our clients and internal stakeholders. Scaling the data pipelines of the new Amount platform is an especially interesting challenge.
You will use tools such as Python, Airflow, Argo, Spark, Trino, and Looker as well as AWS products including Redshift, S3, EMR, and Aurora to build a world-class data platform for internal and external customers.
Salary: $84,000 - $95,000
WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:
- Improvements to existing data pipelines eg. new fields, performance improvements, new data source integrations, etc.
- Design new features for the Data Platform as well as improve scalability and reliability,
- Operational support for the data platform to ensure all data is available within defined SLAs
- Collaboration with the Product team and other engineering teams to plan and execute projects
- Quality code, robust designs, and innovative ideas
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline or equivalent work
- Strong software engineering skills
- At least 1 year of experience building data pipelines using Python, SQL, and other common data platform technologies
- Aptitude for learning new technologies and analytics techniques
- Experience with Java and/or Ruby is a plus
ABOUT AMOUNT (TL;DR)
Founded: 2020
Employees: 150+
Locations: Chicago (HQ), New York, US Remote
Funding: Amount has raised $281M in total equity capital since inception, including most recently at a valuation of $1B. Investors include WestCap, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities, Mastercard, and PSCU
Press: Amount Blog - Equity Raise, Business Wire, PR Newswire - Comerica, PYMNTS - PSCU, A Year in Review - Amount’s Blog, Builtin, The Financial Brand
Key Customers: TD Bank, Velera, Guaranteed Rate, Barclays, American Express, Citizens, Fifth Third Bank, Bank United, FIS, Associated Bank, Comerica
Social Media: LinkedIn, Built In, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
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What We Do
Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to build and enhance the digital experience.
Built by digital lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years. Amount empowers multi-product omnichannel retail banking experiences and a robust point-of-sale financing suite underpinned by core platform features including fraud prevention, verification, decisioning engines and account management.
Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.
Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.
Why Work With Us
Culture matters here: from Demo Days and Current Events Talks to our Employee Resource Groups and community involvement, we pride ourselves on the workplace environment we’ve created.
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