Senior Data Engineer II, Finance

Overview

Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.

Finance data engineering is part of the Data Infrastructure team, working closely with accounting, billing & revenue teams to support the monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing and internal/external financial reporting. The team plays a critical role in defining how financial data is modeled and standardized for uniform, reliable, timely and accurate reporting. This is a high impact, high visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart's products.

The team is still small and many of our bigger initiatives are at an early stage. We expect you to work closely with stakeholders and shape these systems from design, technical decisions, project management to execution. Your input will be critical for driving the Finance Data Strategy and building the platform that Instacart's financial data infrastructure will be built upon.

About the Job

• You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions.
• You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization.
• You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution.
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap.
• You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data).
• Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
• Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment.
• Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind.
• Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool).
• Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
• Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts.
• Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets.
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
• Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool) and Airflow.
• Experience with SOX controlled data systems.