Data Engineer II

Dave is a financial technology company.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026

Los Angeles, USA
About Dave Operating LLC

Dave Operating LLC operates Dave, a consumer-focused financial technology app designed to make banking and cash management more accessible. Its products include ExtraCash, which provides eligible members up to $500 through an overdraft service; Dave Checking, with direct deposit, debit-card spending, early paycheck access, ATM access, and budgeting tools; and Goals accounts for organizing and tracking savings. Dave serves individual consumers, particularly people seeking help managing expenses between paychecks, and provides its services through a mobile application in partnership with FDIC-member banks.

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About the Role

You build and improve reliable data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and deliver data. You own projects through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing production support. You work with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, APIs, files, and cloud services while improving reliability, performance, scalability, and cost. You also contribute to schema design, data modeling, documentation, data quality, query optimization, alerting, backfills, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of software or data engineering experience supporting production data systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or another general-purpose language.
  • Strong SQL skills.
  • Experience building or maintaining ETL or ELT pipelines with dbt, Fivetran, or similar tools.
  • Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift and Airflow or Cloud Composer.
  • Understanding of data modeling, data quality, relational data, query optimization, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with version control, testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.
  • Ability to troubleshoot production systems methodically and communicate effectively with technical and business partners.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and improve reliable data pipelines.
  • Own data engineering projects through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
  • Work with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow or Cloud Composer, APIs, files, and cloud services.
  • Design schemas and data models and improve data quality and query performance.
  • Improve ingestion, orchestration, validation, retries, backfills, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools for development, debugging, documentation, and analysis.

Benefits

  • Flexible hours
  • Home office stipend
  • Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions
  • Financial advisor and financial wellness support
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Generous company holidays including Juneteenth and Winter Break
  • All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events