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About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC and offer hybrid NY-based positions (Four days/ week in-office).

About The Role

The Data Platform Engineering team, pivotal to Betterment's success, builds and maintains the data platform & infrastructure, facilitates our product, engineering and analytics teams, and propels the company's growth by unlocking our data’s potential.

Engineers on the Data Platform team contribute to the vision and technical excellence that underpin Betterment's architecture. They help lead in making high-level decisions about what patterns and frameworks will best help us achieve our data objectives. They operate with autonomy and ownership. They conceptualize, design, plan and execute projects independently.

This role is based out of our NYC office. For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Monday through Thursday, weekly. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

• New York City: $110,000 - $135,000
  
  

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, EAP, commuter and parking benefits, FSA/HSA, and 401(k)with employer match as well as a flexible PTO policy.

A day in the life

• Data Platform Development and Management: Maintain and build new data services that align with engineering objectives. Ensure stability, scalability, and performance of the data platform, including services such as Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, Aurora Postgres, and more
• Data Modeling and Pipelining: Create and optimize data pipelines using Airflow & DBT Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures (like large-scale processing systems)
• Cloud Operations: Efficiently operate and manage resources in an AWS environment using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, including monitoring and alerting set up via Datadog and Sentry
• Collaboration: Work closely with product, analytics, and other engineering teams to meet their data needs
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Set high standards for SQL and Python, ensuring quality, performance, and security
• Continuous Improvement: Advocate for best practices in data governance, quality control, and embody a culture of continual learning and improvement within the team
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 1-3 years of experience in data engineering in a cloud based environment with a good understanding of the modern data technology stack
• Proficiency in SQL and Python. Familiarity with AWS technologies like RDS, Aurora, and Redshift, and general data engineering tooling like Kafka, Airflow, DBT, Terraform, and DataDog is a strong plus
• Demonstrated ability to execute on projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and collaborate in decision-making
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with a solution-oriented mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating technical subjects into clear and concise terms
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  
  

What Being At Betterment Means For You

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

We Invest In You With

• A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
• Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
• Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 7 Employee Resource Groups
• Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
• Dedicated professional development opportunities
• Lunch from our in-house chef at our NYC headquarters
  
  

What Happens Next

We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.

In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.

On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.

We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!

Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.

Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Come join us!

We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

E-Verify Statement

Betterment participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.

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We collect and store personal information for the purposes of candidate tracking (for this role and future opportunities). The information you provide in the course of completing your application will be kept for up to 24 months. We use tools provided by third-party service providers but do not share candidate information for any purpose other than for recruiting. To access the data that is collected, request deletion or to make updates to your candidate profile, please email [email protected] .