Data Analytics Engineer, Parafin
$180-220k
Plus equity grant
Embedded financial services for SMBs
Be an early applicant
Embedded financial services for SMBs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
Plus equity grant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratise access to growth capital.
Role
Who you are
- 1–3 years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, or a similar role
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience working with relational databases and data warehouses
- Experience with Python or another scripting language
- Familiarity with dbt or a desire to learn modern analytics engineering tools
- Experience building dashboards in Looker, Tableau, Sigma, Mode, or similar BI tools
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
Desirable
- Knowledge of data modeling and analytics engineering best practices
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or other cloud data platforms
- Experience with Git and version control
- Familiarity with Airflow, Dagster, or other workflow orchestration tools
- Experience working with financial services, lending, payments, or product analytics data
- Experience in a startup or other fast-paced, high-growth environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Analytics Engineer to build and scale the data models, pipelines, and analytics infrastructure that power decision-making across Parafin
- You'll design reliable datasets, transform raw data into trusted business metrics, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, Risk, and Operations
- You'll also leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development and help build scalable, efficient analytics workflows. Your work will enable teams across the company to make better decisions and help us build products that expand access to financial services for small businesses
- Are you a curious, analytical, and collaborative individual with a passion for turning large, complex datasets into actionable insights? If so, come join us!
- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines that power analytics data models and trusted datasets
- Write efficient SQL to transform, validate, and optimize data for analytics and reporting
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate development, improve productivity, and streamline analytics workflows
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics for business stakeholders
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, Risk, and Operations to understand data needs and deliver data-driven solutions
- Monitor data quality, investigate discrepancies, and improve the reliability of our data
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Parafin's analytics infrastructure and analytics engineering practices
Our take
Parafin is a fintech platform helping SMBs access growth capital. It targets platforms where SMBs sell and transact and offers an embedded finance solution with which these platforms can offer loans ranging from $500 to $10M. Parafin provides the capital for these loans and assumes the risk, allowing platforms to offer competitively attractive incentives to help them draw in a larger proportion of the growing SMB market.
Parafin’s focus on SMB growth funding is canny. Most worldwide businesses fall into the SMB category, but funding access for these businesses shrunk dramatically post-pandemic when traditional banks became more conservative with their loan approvals. This exacerbates SMB cash-flow issues, which reportedly already account for more than four in five SMB failures.
This means Parafin is helping platforms fill a growing and crucial market niche. With leadership from former Robinhood employees, confident funding from major players including the founders of Robinhood, DoorDash, and Plaid, and partnerships with Amazon, Parafin looks poised to net a substantial and lucrative market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
77% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Aug 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 401k plan
- Parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Free in-office lunches
- Mental health & well-being
- Special recognition
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sahill Poddar
(Co-Founder & CEO)Completed a PhD in Particle Physics at CERN, before working as a Data Scientist with LiquidM and Facebook, then finally heading up Machine Learning Engineering at Robinhood.
Ralph Furmaniak
(Co-Founder)Completed a PhD in Analytic Number Theory at Stanford, before working as a Robinhood Data Scientist, and then as Chief Scientist at Numerai.
Vineet Goel
(Co-Founder & CPO)Worked as a Carnegie Mellon Teaching Assistant, before moving into a Software Engineer role at Quantifind, and then heading up Risk and Fraud Engineering at Robinhood.
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