About the Role
As a Data & Backend Engineer building our Data Platform, you'll design and build our data infrastructure from the ground up, including ingestion pipelines, Python and SQL transformations, and backend structures to make data accessible. You will be a force multiplier for every team at SafeLease.
Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end data pipelines integrating sources across internal and external apps, 3P vendors, and SaaS systems.
- Develop transformations within and between infrastructure: OLTP, OLAP, and S3.
- Create backend Python services and APIs to expose platform data to internal consumers and downstream workflows.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks.
- Make data architecture decisions to create agility and scale the business.
Requirements
- 3–6 years working on data infrastructure or backend systems in production.
- Strong Python: ability to write clean, testable code and judiciously use libraries.
- Strong SQL: proficiency in complex joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization.
- Experience designing and shipping reliable cross-system data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
- Comfort interpreting data and becoming an expert on the data touched.
- Collaborative approach, working closely with product, frontend, analytics, and research teams.
- Satisfactory verification of a general and criminal background check.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- ETL/ELT
- Data Pipelines
- Backend Services
- APIs
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Data Quality Frameworks
- Data Architecture
- dbt
- Airflow
- Prefect
- AWS Lambda
- AWS IAM
- AWS KMS
- AWS MWAA
- AWS ECS/EKS
- Data Modeling
- Star Schema
- OBT
- Normalization
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 to $225,000 base
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health benefits
- Flexible work setups
- Competitive pay
- Equity
About the Company
- SafeLease is rethinking how P&C insurance is sold in an age of technological change, tackling structural inefficiencies.
- SafeLease is a profitable insurance business that designs, underwrites, and distributes specialty coverage for commercial property owners and their tenants.
- SafeLease controls the full stack: product design, tech, and speed, offering customers flexibility and saving time and money.
- The company is growing over 100% annually while maintaining profitability and culture.
- SafeLease embraces new technologies, moves fast, and operates with intensity where every person's work is visible.
- The company offers high discretion and a wide aperture of problems to solve.
Equal Opportunity
- If you don't have all the qualifications listed, don't worry! We understand everyone's career path is unique and still encourage you to apply if you feel this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
