Growth with a Purpose

OppLoans is a rapidly growing Fintech company that helps credit-challenged consumers build a better financial path through accessible products and five-star customer service. As one of Chicago's fastest-growing startups, we've made the Crain's Business Chicago Fast 50 (#4 in 2019, #8 in 2020) and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (twice), and we've ranked in Inc. 5000 five years in a row!

The Data Engineering team at OppLoans is focused on the design, development, and support for "all things data" at OppLoans. This includes the deployment of Postgres databases which support our applications, our Snowflake Data Warehouse and multiple Airflow and Hevo ETLs.

This new team member will be focused on:

• Our PostgreSQL Service (OLTP) and Reporting (OLAP) Databases in AWS RDSProvisioning new databases and users with CI/CD tooling
• Keep our data secure and private
• Performance tuning and analysis
• Data-related alerting in Datadog
• User support
• Documentation
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Planning/Drills
• Tool evaluation and testing
• Capacity planning and budgeting assistance
• On-call Rotation for Production Support of all Database and ETL Systems
• System administration of data-related Linux EC2/ECS servers
• Frequent customer-centric collaboration with Reporting users, Developers and DevOps Engineers

What you will bring to the team:

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Engineer
• 3+ years managing production PostgreSQL instances
• Some experience with shell scripting and Python/Ruby script development
• Experience with an ETL tool such as Hevo, Airflow, Informatica or something similar

Our Tech Stack:

• Snowflake
• AWS
• Datadog
• Terraform
• Harness
• Airflow
• Hevo
• Jira
• Confluence
• Tray.io

Things we are learning:

• Stream processing
• Kafka
• Event Sourcing

 Define your career at OppLoans

OppLoans is committed to providing an exceptional employee experience that allows you to define your career and purpose with us. New hire "Opptimists" go through orientation, shadow programs, a new hire lunch with our CEO, Jared Kaplan, and you can participate in different company culture events focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our Onboarding team has designed programs to make you feel welcome and part of our team during your first year and beyond.

• Define the mission (days 1-30): You will understand our company mission, values, and vision, and how your role at OppLoans plays a part in that.
• Define your goals (months 1-3): You will be able to understand your role expectations and identify goals with your manager and mentor(s) to fulfill those expectations.
• Define your belonging (months 3-6): You will understand OppLoans' culture and have opportunities to engage with and impact that culture. Business Resource Groups and other programs are offered to help with community connection both virtually and in-person.
• Define your journey (6 months - 1 year): You will feel confident in your abilities to execute in your role and know the next step you will take to develop your career.

Compensation and Benefits

OppLoans offers a flexible remote environment, 401(k) matching program, and flexible paid vacation. Other benefits include medical benefits, dental and vision coverage, and tuition reimbursement. To support your wellness & growth, we provide monthly meditation and yoga classes and access to all LinkedIn Learning courses. We also offer Fringe, which is a lifestyle benefits platform that lets you decide how you want to spend your rewards from dozens of vendors like Uber, Doordash and Urban Sitter. Dress code is casual.

EEOC Statement:

We do not discriminate based on identity - race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

OppLoans is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, OppLoans will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at [email protected].

Pursuant to the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act, OppLoans is providing the "OppLoans California Employee Privacy Policy", which details the categories of personal information collected and your rights under the policy. If you are a California resident, please review the policy here: https://www.opploans.com/careers/