At Beyond Finance, our mission is to empower everyday Americans to break free from the cycle of crippling debt and achieve financial freedom. Through our compassionate, individualized care, a culture of compliance and ethics, tailored user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we have helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter financial future. We are committed to providing reliable and efficient data solutions to support our systems, making sure data is correct, complete, and on time.
Join our Data Platform Engineering team at Beyond Finance, where we own the production data layer connecting our systems of record to the applications and partners that depend on them. As the lead engineer, you will lead the technical direction for our replication pipelines, integrations, and datastores. You will also build and operate the ETL and reverse-ETL pipelines that sync Salesforce data into our Aurora and Postgres databases, as well as set the standards for the team, including infra-as-code, schema contracts, observability, testing, on-call practices, and incident response. You will also guide the replication pipelines that sync Salesforce data into our Aurora and Postgres databases through Informatica and Fivetran, and set direction for the production Postgres databases behind our applications, covering query performance, indexing, access control, and migration review. You will partner with engineering management on planning, scoping, and team growth, and represent Data Engineering in cross-team technical decisions, while mentoring engineers across levels and leading the team through production incidents as the senior technical voice.
As the lead engineer, you will own the technical direction for this work, turn ambiguous mandates into plans the team can execute, and be accountable for the reliability of the systems we run. You will lead the team through production incidents as the senior technical voice, then drive the systemic fixes that prevent the next one. You will mentor engineers across levels and raise the bar through code review, while delivering increasingly through others rather than your own output alone. You will set direction for the team's pipelines, integrations, and datastores, and work with leadership to prioritize problems and help translate broad goals into concrete work the team can pick up. You will define and defend schema contracts across systems and teams you don't fully control, hold the bar on the outbound jobs that deliver data to third-party partners and the inbound pipelines that ingest and process partner files, and partner with engineering management on planning, scoping, and team growth, and represent Data Engineering in cross-team technical decisions.
Qualifications for this role include 8+ years building and operating production data systems, including time spent owning the technical direction of a team or a major initiative, a track record of creating clarity from ambiguity, setting direction others can execute against rather than only executing well-defined work, deep SQL expertise, including query optimization, indexing, schema design, and operating databases under production load, strong command of replication and ETL/ELT tooling such as Fivetran, Informatica, or Airbyte, with the judgment to choose the right approach for a given problem, and working knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure data services. Experience with and willingness to work with agentic AI coding tools is also highly desirable. Reliability for us means the data is correct, complete, and on time. Reliability for us means the data is correct, complete, and on time.
The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.
Base Salary Range
0,000—5,000 USD
Why Join Us?
At Beyond Finance, we believe that your differences make you unique, and we are committed to creating a work environment that is inclusive, diverse, and respectful of all individuals. We offer a range of benefits that reflect your value to us, including considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs, generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave, a 401(k) matching program, and merit advancement opportunities. We are passionate about our work, and our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.
Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.
