Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform SentiLink https://www.sentilink.com/ provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 https://www.forbes.com/companies/sentilink/?list=fintech50 list every year since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV https://resources.sentilink.com/blog/sentilink-makes-history-as-first-ecbsv-provider and testified before the United States House of Representatives https://resources.sentilink.com/media/sentilinks-statement-before-the-house-financial-services-committee on the future of identity. SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office. ROLE: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team at SentiLink, you will own the data infrastructure components that support the SentiLink suite of products. You will work with product, engineering, and data science teams across the company to build, enhance and modify the data platform that powers our fraud detection products. You have outstanding programming skills and are proficient in our technology stack and pick up new technologies quickly as we evolve. This is a remote, US-based role. Technologies: Python, Golang, PostgreSQL (RDS), OpenSearch, Redshift, EMR, Spark, Docker, Lambda, AWS technologies RESPONSIBILITIES: - Build, expand, and optimize data infrastructure in order to create the most accurate dataset of identities and their relationships - Develop and operate secure, scalable, and reliable data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines that meet product requirements - Design and maintain a data observability framework to ensure our data meets strict quality and freshness standards - Optimize data storage layer and build/maintain interfaces to enable scalable and fast data access to our data stores - Collaborate with product teams (squads) supporting their data platform needs for smooth delivery of existing and new products - Participate in call rotation for production issues, along with the rest of engineering - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to our evolving engineering best practices - Drive innovation by actively participating in our hackathons and doing proof of concepts - Develop functional subject matter expertise within various areas of identity fraud domain REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or related field - Proficient in in python or golang and related technologies and frameworks - Expertise in building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines at scale leveraging distributed data processing technologies like spark, hadoop, kafka or similar technologies - Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP - ... (truncated, view full listing at source)