Software Engineer - Data

About The Role:

Parker's mission is to increase the number of financially independent people. We believe we can achieve this goal by building tools that enable independent business owners to scale their businesses profitably. Our core product combines a virtual credit card system with dynamic spending limits and software tooling to help merchants grow and optimize their profitability.

We are looking to expand our headcount quickly to support the demand. Our investors include Solomon Hykes (founder of Docker), Paul Buchheit (founder of Gmail), Paul Graham (founder of Y Combinator), Robert Leshner (founder of compound.finance), and many more. We are a Series B company that has raised over $50M from top-tier fintech investors.

We're looking for a Data Engineer to join our data team and help build reliable, scalable, and well-documented data systems. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has an interest in Fintech career to grow within a modern data stack environment. You'll support the development of data pipelines, help maintain our data infrastructure, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists and backend engineers to make data accessible and trustworthy.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for internal and external data

• Support data ingestion from APIs, files, and databases into our data warehouse

• Write SQL queries/ Python scripts to clean, join, and transform data for reporting and analysis

• Monitor data quality and troubleshoot pipeline issues

• Contribute to documentation and testing of data workflows

• Learn and work with tools like dbt, Dagster

• Follow best practices for version control (Git) and coding standards

Tools You Might Use:

• Languages: Python, SQL

• Data Warehouses: Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres

• Orchestration & Integration: Dagster, Airbyte, dbt, Prefect

• Cloud: AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda), GCP, or similar

• Dev Tools: GitHub, Docker, VS Code

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in a data, backend, or analytics role (internships count!)

• Strong SQL skills and an interest in analytics engineering

• Intermediate Python knowledge (e.g., working with data, files, APIs)

• Understanding of relational databases and columnar data warehouse and data modeling concepts

• Comfortable with Git and command-line tools

• Curiosity and willingness to learn modern data tooling

• Clear communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have (but not required):

• Experience with dbt, Airflow, Dagster, or similar tools

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Familiarity with data quality, observability, or testing frameworks

• Past projects involving large datasets or data APIs

• Exposure to GraphQL and Typescript