Data Engineer

Vontive is a company focused on solving complex problems in a highly dispersed industry, opening up new financing opportunities for real estate investors. Our efficient process delivers prompt, accurately underwritten loans at significantly lower cost to borrowers than traditional lending. Technology is the heart of our business and we are investing in skilled technologists to aid our growth.

The Data Engineer is an exciting role focused on building and maintaining API service layers that open up machine learning and analytics insights for use in internal and external facing applications; enabling secure, performant import and export of various datasets; and storage and retrieval of complex objects like trained models.

This role also includes a significant database architect opportunity, designing schemas, procedures, and triggers in Postgres and integrating your designs into our existing SQLAlchemy / Alembic migration process.

Our system design revolves around serverless architecture, so experience designing and delivering applications within AWS's Lambda and API Gateway frameworks will be a strong predictor of success.

You will work with a distributed team with members in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida, and Washington. The successful candidate will report to the Director of Data Products, based in Seattle.

An ideal candidate can demonstrate previous success in:

• Constructing REST API services in Python
• Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies for bringing up endpoints and routes in AWS to accommodate Python REST APIs
• Defining strong tests
• ETL Operations for ingesting large publicly available datasets, such as Census Bureau, BLS, and FRED
• Delivering performant, auditable database schemas in some flavor of SQL, ideally PostgreSQL
• Supporting other developers working mostly in JS and Python
• Implementing authorization with Firebase or Okta
• Strong knowledge of version control and Git commands
• Packaging applications into Docker images
• Using the AWS suite of products, particularly for serverless and automated workflows
• Providing adequate documentation like Swagger and Confluence guides
• Cross-functional working relationships with engineers and stakeholders in parallel groups

The person who joins our team should also be excited about contributing to:

• Systems for saving and serving trained models
• Surfacing analytics insights to users across multiple interfaces
• Best-in-class tools for automating tasks in our financial technology platform
• Supporting economics research in real estate and housing

Our benefits are designed for your total wellbeing and include:

• Competitive salary and compensation package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Monthly fitness and wellness reimbursement
• Healthy snacks, beverages and meals at the office
• Remote-friendly work environment during COVID-19
• Your choice of equipment, ergonomic setup
• Company-sponsored events and volunteering opportunities
• Flexible hours, unlimited vacation
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• Meaningful equity and 401(k) plan
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance policy

At Vontive, you will find a team committed to diversity, inclusion, and values of:

• Take Initiative: We should feel empowered to experiment, build and solve problems proactively
• Assume Best Intent: We believe that our peers are working to the best of their ability with the resources and information they have at their disposal
• Feedback: Whether it’s coming from our customers or our colleagues, we listen, empathize, and act quickly. When delivering feedback we do it with compassion and recognize that there are different ways to approach a problem.
• Strive for Simplicity: When taking on problems, we always ask ourselves if they can be broken down further. By tackling one thing at a time, we’re able to produce a cleaner product, avoid distractions and deliver desired outcomes..
• Build Two Way Doors: We solve our problems by committing to easily reversible solutions allowing for quick experimentation and iteration if need be.
• Drive Clarity: We don’t assume everybody has the necessary context or knowledge to act. We strive to proactively push information and encourage others to ask questions.

Vontive is an equal opportunity employer that promotes diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Due to the threat of more infectious and deadly COVID-19 variant strains emerging, and to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we require that newly-hired employees for this position be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. We will make reasonable accommodations for valid exemptions based on disability, medical, or religious reasons and/or as otherwise required by applicable law.