Staff Analytics Engineer, Subledger Platform

1 hour, 43 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
Affirm

Affirm

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Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Build and own dbt models for the financial subledger platform across staging, intermediate, canonical, and semantic layers.
  • Implement data quality checks, freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated reconciliations in dbt.
  • Embed AI-assisted reconciliation capabilities to triage variances, suggest root causes, and generate reviewable evidence artifacts.
  • Own end-to-end subledger data products with traceability from source events through transformations to reporting outputs.
  • Partner with Accounting and Financial Reporting to translate requirements into durable model specifications and tie-out rules.
  • Drive production operations for owned pipelines and models, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and release management.
  • Collaborate with upstream engineering teams to improve source data quality through contracts and change management.
  • Coach and develop one Analytics Engineer through code review, pairing, scoped ownership, and technical guidance.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on experience building and maintaining production dbt projects, including models, tests, macros, documentation, and CI.
  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills, with experience building canonical datasets for finance reporting or other correctness-critical use cases.
  • Experience operating data pipelines in a warehouse environment, with Snowflake preferred.
  • Strong programming skills, with Python preferred, for building data tooling and automation.
  • Deep Snowflake expertise, including architecture patterns, query optimization, RBAC, masking policies, monitoring, cost management, and reliability practices.
  • Strong ownership mindset and ability to lead ambiguous work across Finance, Accounting, and Engineering stakeholders.
  • Experience with accounting concepts such as subledgers, journal entries, posting logic, balance rollforwards, tie-outs, and close processes (nice to have).
  • Experience designing SOX-friendly controls and generating repeatable evidence from data pipelines (nice to have).
  • Experience applying AI/LLMs to data quality or reconciliation workflows with human-in-the-loop governance (nice to have).
  • AWS experience, including S3, IAM, data platform primitives, and cloud architecture concepts (nice to have).

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with the flexibility to work almost anywhere in the country of employment.
  • Base salary range of $191,000-$241,000 for most U.S. states and $215,000-$265,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT.
  • Equity rewards as part of total compensation.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules to support time off and recharge.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with discounted shares of Affirm.

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