Data Engineer (remote)

Position Title: Data Engineer - (remote)

Entity: KBRA Holdings, LLC                                                                                                                   

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Remote only in CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking an engaged and proactive Data Engineer to work with our financial data, along with supplemental data sets which can be utilized to enhance analysis and visibility into the scope and health of various financial institutions. We want someone who loves solving difficult problems, digs deeply to understand the domain in which they’re working, and excels at creating high-quality software in a collaborative environment.

About the Team:

We believe that small, empowered teams can do amazing things. Across the engineering organization, we work hard to make the best systems for our customers using modern engineering practices. We are intentional in our investments in time and effort around creating a safe and successful workplace for our team members. We understand software engineering goes beyond the 1’s and 0’s and prioritize concrete value for our customers.

Our engineering team is a highly collaborative unit that is responsible for creating web applications and REST APIs backing our financial products. Working with our product team, the team builds a high-quality user experience for our clients, both internal and external.

About the Job:

This role involves joining an existing team with a growing product vision. This team operates collaboratively and there is an expectation to get involved in all aspects of design, delivery, and support of our systems, adding features to the product continuously and iteratively. The role requires finesse around legacy codebases, particularly with regards to their extension and maintenance, all with an eye for technical quality that continues to improve as the product matures.

This role emphasizes collaboration with our technical and non-technical counterparts to learn our domain and its unique challenges, while delivering value to our customers. It also requires collaboration with our other engineering, design, product, and platform teams to develop, build, run, and support the system.

About You:

You will be successful in this role if you:

• Able to work in a collaborative environment.
• Have experience collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical partners.
• Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship in legacy and green field codebases.
• Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies.

Must have skills:

• Hands-on Python Development Experience – Well-constructed, intelligently tested, easy to re-use and extendable packages.
• Developing REST APIs using Python frameworks (preferably Flask).
• Publishing Python packages, maintaining them, and building Python CLI tools.
• Deploying REST APIs in containerized environments (Docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.). Working with other developers in the team to integrate those APIs with our web applications.
• Working with services from one of the major Cloud providers – Preferably AWS Services such as S3, Secrets Manager, SQS (Simple Queue Service), EKS, etc.
• Writing CI/CD pipelines -- Azure DevOps and/or GitLab preferred.
• SQL, MongoDB, and/or Snowflake using Python.
• Designing data models for effective data storage and retrieval (preferably SQL, MongoDB, Snowflake).
• Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents.
• Troubleshooting ETL pipelines.

Nice to have skills:

• Writing CI/CD configuration (preferably GitLab).
• Configuring observability and alerting services (preferably Datadog and Opsgenie).
• Writing infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform).
• Integrating managed authentication services (preferably Auth0).
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing and deploying RESTful APIs and understanding of micro-services.
• You will have worked on at least one API that successfully met the acceptance tests of product stakeholders and delivered business value to your enterprise.
• Experience building docker images and deploying services and container-based applications with Docker swarm/Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Distributed and Event based systems (Kafka, SQS).
• C# experience.

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $90,000 to $120,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Cell phone reimbursement

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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