Staff Data Engineer, Financial Data Operations

Root Inc. is a technology company revolutionizing personal insurance with a pricing model based upon fairness and a modern customer experience. The Staff Data Engineer will drive financial data operations, ensuring the accuracy, scalability, and reliability of data pipelines that power critical financial processes while collaborating closely with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Finance, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and experts in the Insurance group to set the strategy for the quarters to come
• Identify and socialize important technical initiatives that increase the effectiveness of our products, systems, and teams
• Coach and guide engineers on your team in planning experiments and projects that align with our strategic objectives
• Contribute code each development cycle to advance the impact of the team
• Lead by example in incident response ensuring we take action to continuously improve the resiliency of our systems
• Coordinate with Staff Engineers across the organization to establish and evangelize standards and best practices

Requirements:

• 8+ years as a software engineer
• Expertise in Python, Terraform, SQL, and Spark
• Expertise in building large scale finance, payments, and commissions systems
• Expertise in Cloud Architecture - AWS Preferred
• Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
• Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders