Lead AI and Data Engineer, Spiral
$160k
Ethical banking app
Job no longer available
Ethical banking app
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$160k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower millions of people to build better lives and positively impact their communities.
Role
Who you are
- You are obsessed with excellence and consistently looking to improve
- You are obsessed with new technologies and best practices
- You put innovation and curiosity above organizational hierarchy
- You are an owner who takes things from start to end
- You seek to understand the needs of your peers and team and adapt your style as necessary
- You have experience in or are drawn to a startup environment, and have a demonstrated ability to adapt and innovate
- 5+ years of experience with Java
- Experience with common data pipeline tools and frameworks
- Experience integrating, training, and optimizing LLMs
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data-related issues
- Extensive knowledge and experience with:
- Java Spring Boot, JPA,
- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Microservices, docker, k8s/Kubernetes (EKS is a plus)
- Elasticsearch
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- B.Sc. or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
What the job involves
- As the Lead AI and Data Engineer at Spiral, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling our data infrastructure
- You will work closely with all company disciplines to create robust solutions that leverage machine learning technologies that combine customer usage data to generate personalized insights that are incorporated directly into our products' user-facing experiences
- Your responsibilities will extend beyond purely the machine learning and data platform team, as all of our backend engineers are expected to contribute to development activities across all backend technologies to consistently deliver high-quality code for our applications, products, and services
- You will work closely with our product team and frontend engineers to ensure system performance and functionality meet customer needs and deliver high-quality user experiences
- You will be part of a forward-thinking team that values creativity, technical expertise, and a commitment to continuous improvement
- Design and develop scalable data platforms that efficiently handle large volumes of customer usage data
- Collaborate with all company disciplines to integrate data insights into Spiral products
- Implement data storage solutions that support both real-time and batch processing
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
- Work closely with Product, QA, Dev-Ops, Customer Success and management
- Your contribution will have a great impact on the company's business and be the enabler of the company's growth and scalability
Our take
Spiral is a challenger bank that, alongside offering no-fee and no-minimum deposit checking and savings accounts, accommodates easy charitable donations. It does this by automatically taking a percentage of customers' incoming funds and putting them into charities of their choice.
With more than half of Americans donating to charity each year, SPiral is built around the idea that giving should be simple and built into daily financial habits. As ethically conscious consumerism contunues to grow, its model taps into demand fo rfinancial products that align with personal values.
Recently, Spiral has shifted toward powering community-focused digital banking through partnerships. And in 2025, it teams up with Bank of Guam to bring its savings and giving tools to customers across Guam and the Western Pacific.
Through Spiral's platform, customers can round up purchases to save or donate, set automated savings goals, track their charitable impact, and access digital donation reports. The partnerships reflects Spiral's broader strategy to help banks grow deposits and deepen customer relationships by turning everyday banking into a tool for both personal financial progress and community impact.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$28m
SERIES A
Mar 2021
$14m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $42m
Company benefits
- Fully remote working: We're a globally distributed team and support remote and in-person work
- Health and wellness: Employer-paid medical plan, vision, and dental, long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 401k: Startup equity and 401(k) plan
- Parental leave: Parental leave for both mothers and fathers to bond with their new child
- 20 days PTO: Employees are provided with 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year
- HSA account: Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible employees
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Shawn Melamed
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, heading up the build of its Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. Co-founder of Hub of Love.
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