
Senior Analytics Engineer – Financial Analytics
Coinbase
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,370 - $212,200 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Quickly build subject matter expertise in a specific business area and data domain.
- Understand the data flows from creation, ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
- Communicate with engineering teams to fix data gaps for downstream data users.
- Take initiative and accountability for fixing issues anywhere in the stack.
- Perform reconciliation-style validation across sources, identifying discrepancies and driving fixes.
- Interface with stakeholders on data and product teams to deliver the most commercial value from data.
- Build curated data models that streamline ledger verification and accounting workflows.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance/Accounting to translate requirements into durable data models.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of best practices for designing modular and reusable data models (e.g., star schemas, snowflake schemas).
- Proficiency in advanced SQL techniques for data transformation, querying, and optimization.
- Expertise in scripting and automation, with experience in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and building scalable frameworks.
- Strong ability to translate technical concepts into business value for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to work effectively with Finance/Accounting partners.
- Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines, using modern tools like dbt, Airflow, or similar.
- Proficiency in building polished dashboards using tools like Looker, Tableau, Superset, or Python visualization libraries (Matplotlib, Plotly).
- Familiarity with version control (GitHub), CI/CD, and modern development workflows.
- Knowledge of modern data lake/warehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and transformation frameworks.
- Track record of building for correctness and reliability: data quality frameworks, monitoring/alerting, incident response, and stakeholder-facing SLAs.
- Ability to understand and address business challenges through analytics engineering.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLdata modelingETLELTObject-Oriented Programmingdata transformationdata quality frameworksanalytics engineeringdata reconciliationdata visualization
Soft Skills
cross-functional communicationstakeholder engagementinitiativeaccountabilityproblem-solvingcollaborationtranslating technical conceptsdriving fixesunderstanding business challengesinterpersonal skills