Analytics Engineer 3

About us:

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.

Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. 

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role:

In this role, the Analytics Engineer will play a critical part in supporting Branch’s Finance and Accounting operations, ensuring accurate reconciliation, money-movement visibility, and audit-ready financial data. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical expertise, industry knowledge, and a deep understanding of analytics engineering best practices. Familiarity with leading-edge tools and technologies in the data landscape is essential for driving insights and innovations within our team.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Data Model Development: Craft and maintain scalable, efficient, and performance-optimized data models to power business applications and analytics with a strong emphasis on payment flows, reconciliation, and financial data integrity
• Platform Optimization: Enhance our data platform with best practices for improved performance, consistency, and accuracy
• Technology Adoption: Champion the latest data technologies and methodologies, staying ahead of industry trends to elevate team productivity and platform functionality
• Problem-Solving: Proactively address data challenges to boost business outcomes, using data-driven insights
• Collaboration: Work closely with multiple technical and stakeholder teams, leveraging data to drive strategic decisions and foster a culture of data-driven excellence

 Qualifications:

• Advanced SQL Expertise: At least 5 years of experience in crafting complex, highly optimized, and readable SQL queries, demonstrating excellence in database management and data manipulation. Ability to build maintainable transformation pipelines and contribute to a high-quality, trusted analytics ecosystem
• Data Modeling Proficiency: Skilled in data modeling, with a strong understanding of data warehousing principles and best practices, ensuring the creation of efficient, scalable data structures
• Modern Data Stack Experience: Solid experience with DBT and analytics engineering best practices. Experience with our data stack, including Snowflake, GitHub, and Looker, is highly desirable
• Financial Industry Experience: Strong working knowledge of the payments sector, including payment processing workflows and underlying money-movement rails (ACH, card networks), fraud detection, and risk management, supported by a proven track record of solving industry-specific challenges
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a closely related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant academic and professional experience

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $145-160k.

The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. 

Location:

This position is classified as REMOTE within the United States of America.

We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.

Benefits: 

• Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance 
• Stock options
• Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription
• Monthly home-office stipend
• 401k (TransAmerica)
• 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Flexible time off + sick and safe time
• 11 paid company holidays

Working at Branch

A remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S., Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together.  Learn more about what we do in this video!

Our collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning FinTech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by Inc., the Webby Awards, Benzinga FinTech Awards, FinTech Breakthrough Awards, Top Workplaces USA, Great Places to Work, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Heartland, among others.  

Learn more about our culture, approach, technology, and people here: https://www.branchapp.com/about

Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer.

No third-parties, please.

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