Data Engineer

About Borrowell:

At Borrowell, we’re on a mission to help Canadians feel confident about their money. We empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by providing the tools and insights needed to understand, build, and use their credit effectively.

With over four million members, Borrowell empowers Canadians to understand their credit, build credit through Rent Advantage and Credit Builder, and make better financial product choices.

Our team is diverse, inclusive, and driven by a shared passion for making a meaningful difference in the lives of Canadians. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of collaboration, humility, and innovation. If you’re looking to join a company that’s transforming the financial landscape and empowering Canadians to achieve their financial aspirations, we invite you to explore career opportunities at Borrowell. Together, we can help Canadians feel confident about money.

About the role:

As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role building and maintaining our data infrastructure and working with latest technologies such as Snowflake, Apache Airflow, DBT, serverless functions and Docker. You will be working closely with other data, engineering and business functions to develop solutions that drive both business analytics and insights as well as data driven applications.

During your first year, you can expect to:

• Develop end-to-end ELT pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources to power a reliable and scalable data platform
• Design and build high-performance, reusable data models that efficiently handle large datasets and support analytics, marketing, and machine learning use cases
• Create and maintain APIs that enable seamless data sharing across systems, including APIs for deploying and serving machine learning models in production
• Partner with engineering, data, and business teams to drive and deliver impactful data engineering initiatives
• Contribute meaningfully to the design and implementation of core data infrastructure decisions

Requirements

• 2+ years experience building end to end ETL/ELT data pipelines 
• Experience working with:
• Object-oriented and functional scripting languages (Python)
• Query authoring (SQL) as well as practical familiarity with relational databases
• Data transformation tool (DBT)
• Data platforms (Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery)

Nice to Haves: 

• Experience working with: 
• Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow/ Dagster)
• Containerized applications (Docker)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/ AWS/ GCP)

Important Qualities:

• Desire to continuously learn how to implement the latest technologies and analytical tools into our tech stack
• Willingness to embrace and act upon feedback
• Open and transparent communication, ability to adjust communication to suit both technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

• The Opportunity - join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping Canadians feel confident about money.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
• Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
• Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
• WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
• Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
• Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
• Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy

We are remote-first across Canada with an office in Toronto. This role requires you to attend in-person meetings and team-building events. While this role is remote, we are currently only able to hire candidates physically located in Ontario, BC, or Alberta.

At Borrowell, one of our core values and firm beliefs is that diversity makes us better. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for candidates who have experience but know that not everyone’s had a chance to demonstrate what they can do. What’s most important is that you have a growth mindset and care about helping people with their finances - an area in their lives that causes a lot of stress.

Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the work we do, clearing a credit and criminal record check is a condition of employment.

By submitting your application you consent to Borrowell's use and processing of your personal information in connection with your job application at Borrowell and its recruitment processes.

Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.

This posting represents a current and active vacancy within our organization.

The budgeted annual salary range for this role is $80,000 – $130,000 CAD. Starting pay is determined by the candidate's relevant experience and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for Borrowell’s full benefits package.