Data Engineer - Snowflake & DBT

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Kapitus is building a next-generation enterprise data and AI capability for our financial services organization. This is a multi-year modernization program that replaces hundreds of legacy analytics workflows with governed, reusable business data products on a modern cloud data platform, stands up an AI/ML platform, and moves the organization from producing reports to producing decisions.

We are hiring Data Engineers to build that platform and the products on it. The core stack is Snowflake and dbt, organized around a layered medallion architecture bronze/silver/gold-style layers extended with governed conformed entities, certified semantic definitions, and reusable serving structures. You will build ingestion and transformation pipelines, model data across layers, migrate legacy workflows onto the platform, and ship data products through evidence-based acceptance gates.

You report to the Director of Data Engineering, who owns the platform architecture and engineering standards. This is a delivery role on a program that runs to tight timelines and real acceptance criteria: your work is done when it is validated, evidenced, and accepted code complete is not product complete. You will work alongside internal engineers and consulting-partner teams across onshore and offshore locations, all held to the same engineering bar.

Senior Data Engineers additionally own complex workstreams or product slices, lead technical design within the approved architecture, review other engineers’ work, mentor team members, and drive difficult migrations or production issues to closure.

What you will do

Build

• Develop ELT pipelines on Snowflake and dbt: source ingestion, layered transformations through the medallion zones, and governed serving structures for BI, API, ML, and AI consumption.
• Model data within the platform’s layered architecture — staging, conformed core entities, dimensional and product-level models — following approved modeling standards for grain, keys, and naming.
• Implement approved data contracts, conformed

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• Tuition Reimbursement: Pursue further education with up to $5,000 annually in tuition reimbursement, plus opportunities to attend relevant conferences and career development events. Managed through our LSA plan, Kapitus Academy.
• Travel Reimbursement: We also offer travel reimbursement for all work-related travel, supporting your involvement in career and personal development activities.
• Paid Time Off and Sick Time.
• Retirement Benefits : Our 401K plan is managed through Fidelity. To support your long-term financial goals, the company provides a 25% match on your contributions, up to 6% of your annual salary.

About Kapitus

Kapitus is one of the most reliable and respected names in small business financing. As both a direct lender and a marketplace built with a trusted network of lending partners, we can provide small businesses with the financing they need when, and how it is needed. We have spent our entire existence building a culture that makes us excited to come to work in the morning. Our company is fast paced, teammates need to be self-directed and have an internal motivation to do the right thing, even when the right thing takes a lot of hard work. We show our teammates our appreciation by offering great benefits, competitive pay and solid opportunity for growth.

Company Mission: At Kapitus, our mission is to help small business owners grow their organizations by providing tailored, transparent, and ethical financing solutions. We invest in every business owner’s story and we are dedicated to building lasting relationships to champion their goals. We promise to keep the best interests of our clients at the center of the financing process by operating with transparency, fairness, and integrity.

Consideration will be given to qualified remote candidates residing in states where Kapitus and/or one of its subsidiaries has an established physical presence.