Data Engineer

Princeton, NJ, United States

About Oxygen:

Oxygen is a modern financial platform designed for the 21st-century economy, tailored to meet the unique needs of today's consumers and small businesses (freelancers, solopreneurs and modern SMBs). We believe beauty lies in simplicity, from design to utility, and build our ever-growing product suite with this in mind. And we’re just getting started. At Oxygen, we’re focused on lifting up those who dare to push boundaries and redefine what's possible by delivering on our promise to be a more fair financial partner. The next generation building the future is writing their own rules and shattering expectations. So are we. For those who reject the status quo, welcome to Banking for the Extraordinary. Let's create the future!

Our team is looking for a Data Engineer who can contribute to our mission with their expertise in database technologies and data processing. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing databases, data processing solutions, and partner integrations that are scalable, highly available, and efficient. Your role involves working with high-velocity data streams/events, building robust ETL / ELT data pipelines, and ensuring our database solutions are optimized for multi-regional deployments and resiliency to meet application performance requirements.

Note: This is a hybrid role based out of our Princeton, New Jersey location. You will be expected to be in the office for a minimum of 2-3 days/week.

What you’ll do:

Database Technology Expertise: Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of application backend database technologies including NoSQL and SQL Databases, and AWS services like Redshift, Postgres, Dynamo, MongoDB, and Aurora.

High-Velocity Data Stream Processing: Manage the messaging and processing of high-velocity data streams, ensuring efficiency and reliability.

Data Pipeline Construction: Build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring they are robust and scalable to meet our evolving data needs.

Scalable and Highly Available Solutions: Design database solutions that are highly available and scalable, particularly for multi-regional deployments.

Sharding: Implement database sharding strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.

AWS Environment Proficiency: Utilize AWS services and other modern Data Processing technologies effectively, from simple ETLs and event processing to being able to build fully functional machine learning pipelines.

Automated back and recovery: design database services to ensure recoverability, data integrity and redundancy

Collaboration and Leadership: Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing leadership and expertise in data architecture and database management.

Innovation and Optimization: Continuously explore new technologies and methodologies to improve data processing and storage capabilities.

About you:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Extensive experience as a Data Architect or in a similar role.

Deep understanding of backend database technologies, both SQL and NoSQL.

Proficient in AWS cloud services, particularly Redshift, Aurora, Glue, and Data Catalogue.

Experience with machine learning pipelines and data processing.

Knowledge of high-velocity data stream processing and building data pipelines.

Experience in designing scalable and highly available database solutions, including multi-regional deployments and sharding.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in dynamic environments.

Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.

Compensation and Benefits:

The final compensation package for this role will be determined during the interview process and is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, geographic location, internal equity, education, skill set, experience and training.

Oxygen also offers comprehensive benefits, including stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, a retirement plan, flex time off, paid parental leave, employer paid disability coverage, and additional health and wellbeing perks and benefits. Oxygen reserves the right to amend or modify employee perks and benefits at any time.

Not sure you qualify?

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Oxygen we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Oxygen provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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