Senior Data Engineer

The posting, as LendingTree wrote it

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. LendingTree and its affiliates (“LendingTree”) will not provide or assume sponsorship for employment visas for this position, now or in the future.

The Opportunity
As a Data Engineer at LendingTree, you’ll build the pipelines, models, and data services behind reporting, analytics, and data science across our lending and insurance businesses. You’ll tackle complex integration and modeling challenges, improve reliability and cost efficiency, and apply practical AI tools to help the team deliver better data solutions faster.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Build and operate scalable batch and real-time streaming pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and database applications across multiple lines of business, with clear plans for schema changes, retries, and recovery.
• Design dimensional models and reusable datasets for business, analytics, and data science needs. Perform complex data analysis to validate business rules, identify trends and anomalies, and uncover opportunities.
• Own the reliability and efficiency of your data solutions: automate quality checks, monitor freshness, tune performance and compute costs, and participate in the on-call rotation to resolve incidents and prevent recurrence.
• Create reusable frameworks and development patterns that improve delivery speed and consistency. Apply automated testing, code review, and repeatable deployments; maintain technical standards, runbooks, and learning materials.
• Partner with business users and engineering teams to clarify requirements, resolve issues, and contribute to the data engineering roadmap, including platform capabilities, priorities, technical trade-offs, and delivery estimates.
• Apply AI tools to development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting. Validate generated code and results, protect sensitive data, and assess whether these tools improve quality and reduce delivery time.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll join the Data Engineering team, working with your manager, fellow engineers, and partners in analytics, data science, product, and business operations across Lending and Insurance. You’ll also collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to manage dependencies, support production services, and turn business priorities into practical data solutions.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, including data warehousing, ETL/ELT development, and analytics, with a record of delivering and supporting production solutions.
• Advanced SQL skills, including writing, tuning, and debugging complex queries and using data analysis to investigate problems.
• Experience designing data lakes and warehouses on scalable, distributed platforms, with an understanding of batch and streaming integration patterns.
• Strong dimensional modeling skills and sound data warehousing practices, including defining grain, fact and dimension tables, and how historical changes are represe

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each other succeed.

We believe the best ideas come from different perspectives, and we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel welcomed, valued, and empowered to make an impact. You’ll have the trust and flexibility to do your best work, the opportunity to take ownership and try new things, and teammates who genuinely enjoy working together.

And while we work hard, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate wins, recognize great work (our GSD — Get Stuff Done — Award is a fan favorite), and make time to have some fun along the way.

Come grow with us, make an impact, and help us build what’s next.

What We Offer

We want you to feel supported at work and beyond. Our benefits and programs are designed to help you stay healthy, recharge, plan for the future, and bring your best to whatever matters most to you.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Generous time off
• Wellness programs and resources
• Annual performance bonus eligibility

Base Pay

The base pay range for this position is $100,000-130,000; pay offered may vary based on location, internal factors, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Work Authorization: This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Please do not apply for this role if you will need employer sponsorship now or in the future to begin or continue employment.

Everyone Belongs Here

LendingTree is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an application, please email us at humanresources@lendingtree.com .

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