AT ACORNS, OUR MISSION IS TO LOOK AFTER THE FINANCIAL BEST INTERESTS OF THE UP-AND-COMING, BEGINNING WITH THE EMPOWERING, PROUD STEP OF MICRO-INVESTING. HOW DO WE ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION? OUR VALUES.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility
Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future
Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team
Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress
Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen
Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER | ACORNS

Acorns is seeking a highly-motivated, detail-oriented Senior Data Engineer. This position will reside in Data Engineering, which serves as the central data platform team for the company. The Data Engineering team is responsible for delivering a world class scalable and secure data platform that serves millions of up-and-coming Acorns customers by leveraging best in class tools and frameworks like Databricks and Flink. We process Petabytes of app interactions and complex financial data daily. In this role you will be a vital component to the success of our Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams. This is a full-time, direct hire position, working regular hours.
Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

• Interface with various parts of business, Products, Project Management, and Leadership.
• Understand data landscape and data flow and processes.
• Fix or enhance production data pipelines.
• Receive operational updates from our GoHenry & PixPay team members during Acorns’ quarterly global virtual all-hands session.
• Work with the engineering leadership team to align, establish and promote engineering-wide priorities, including new features, infrastructure, and tool building.
• Optimize performance of business-critical data processes and identify and resolve data process issues.
• Develop new data pipelines for ingesting, integrating various heterogeneous data sources.
• Design and develop data pipelines to support reliable, timely and accurate computation of business metrics in collaboration with Analytics.
• Propose and promote new ways to solve a problem to gain efficiency and to scale.
• Complete a Performance Development Check-in to align on Performance and Values Rating Trends.
• Contribute and execute on Acorns Data Roadmap.
• Author, propose and execute technical initiatives.
• Define career path opportunities for development.
• Delivered one or more large initiatives and act as a lead or mentor to 1 or more engineers.