Company Overview:
Edquity is an anti-poverty technology focused on redesigning the safety net to provide cash for all Americans in need. Edquity does this in higher education, where we streamline access to emergency aid for college students. Furthermore, in partnership with state and municipal governments, where we create a fast and equitable infrastructure to administer cash benefits to the iniduals who need it most. Our methodology harnesses the collective power of sociology, behavioral science, and technology to address common pitfalls, including racial bias, inefficiency, compliance risk, and lack of transparency and monitoring. To date, Edquity has administered over $100 million in government funding to more than 100,000 recipients. Moreover, Edquity has demonstrated that we improve key societal outcomes, such as graduation rate, by as much as 2x.
The organization has raised over $8M in funding and is scaling rapidly, so that we can administer hundreds of millions in emergency cash assistance to students and low-income Americans in need.
Job Overview:
Edquity is seeking an experienced Data Engineer who is passionate about enhancing financial stability and social mobility in higher education and improving college graduation rates for low and middle-income students.
The Data Engineer will participate in the ingression, management, and storage of data. As a Data Engineer, you should be an expert with data warehousing components (e.g. Data Modeling, ETL, and Reporting) and integrations. You should have a deep understanding of the architecture for enterprise-level data warehouse solutions using multiple platforms (RDBMS, Columnar, Cloud). You should be an expert in the design, creation, and management of large datasets, and have excellent business and communication skills. The Data Engineer should work towards a vision beyond the daily tasks with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and appreciate autonomous responsibility.
What you will do:
- Design and develop scalable data models where highly complex data relationships exist
- Architect and maintain highly automated and scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines
- Provision, optimize, and maintain data feeds to external systems
- Create visualization and reporting as needed
- Creating well written technical documentation
- Designs new functionality in our existing components for the team to leverage
- Evangelize best practices around data and team processes
What you should have:
- Experience writing SQL and Python, solving complex data problems, good data modeling, as well as building automated data pipelines
- Be a quick learner, self-starting, and have the ability to maintain and build within a horizontal and vertical scaling data system
- Expert at writing and optimizing SQL scripts
- Solid working knowledge of relational database platforms and cloud database platforms
- Experience with cloud data environments
- Experience scaling data architecture
- Experience integrating external data sources via API
Compensation and Benefits:
The salary range for this position has been benchmarked in relation to the scope of the role, market rate, company stage, and internal equity. The salary for this role will be between $160,000 - $180,000. Where a candidate falls within the band is determined by skillset, experience level, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role will come with a total compensation package that includes equity shares and competitive benefits. Some of our benefits include:
- Fully Paid Health Insurance (Medical/Vision/Dental)
- Unlimited PTO
- 11 Paid Company Holidays
- Generous Parental Leave Benefits
- 401k matching
- Professional Development Stipend
- Potential for Equity
- Many others!
Edquity is committed to building a erse staff and strongly encourages applications from candidates of color. Edquity provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
