Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

For our client, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer Backend (lake Analytics Platform) to join the team of a leader in the Finance & Insurance space. This role will lead technical work focused on cloud-enabled scalability, reliability, and delivery excellence. You will partner with business, technical, and operational stakeholders to build reporting, surface trends, and translate analysis into action. The position offers the opportunity to strengthen data-driven execution and help teams focus on the metrics that matter most within a regulated financial services environment.

Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available

Compensation: $204,000 – $264,000 annually

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the long-term technical roadmap for the company’s Lakehouse Platform
• Architect and implement capabilities for secure and user-friendly analytical data management
• Design and maintain governance and secure access controls for the data platform
• Enhance analytics engineering through improved data modeling and quality practices
• Establish best practices for lakehouse operations at scale
• Optimize analytical compute and storage performance and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with various teams to translate business needs into technical architecture
• benefits
• health care coverage with premiums fully covered for employees and dependents
• generous Flexible Spending Wallets for various personal and family-related expenses
• competitive vacation and holiday time for rest and recharge
• employee stock purchase plan allowing discounted purchase of company shares

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or data infrastructure, with 2+ years in technical leadership roles
• Hands-on leadership experience in building data infrastructure teams
• Proficiency with Snowflake or similar analytical data warehouses, especially in access control and query optimization
• Strong working knowledge of Apache Iceberg, Spark, and cloud-native data lake architectures
• Experience with dbt or equivalent frameworks, focusing on data modeling and CI/CD practices
• Programming skills in Python, SQL, or similar languages with a focus on production-quality systems
• Familiarity with Terraform or equivalent for managing data infrastructure

Benefits

• Health care coverage with premiums fully covered for employees and dependents
• Generous Flexible Spending Wallets for various personal and family-related expenses
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules for work-life balance
• Employee stock purchase plan allowing discounted purchase of company shares

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.