Staff Data Engineer, Financial Data Operations

Root Inc. is a technology company revolutionizing personal insurance with a pricing model based on fairness and a modern customer experience. The Staff Data Engineer will drive financial data operations, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data pipelines while collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver impactful systems.

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
• Proven leadership of projects involving multiple teams across functional domains
• Excellent communication skills both with engineering colleagues and senior business leaders
• Cloud Architecture - AWS Preferred