Senior Data Engineer, Finance

Instacart

. You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$188,000 - CA$198,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudETLPythonSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions.
You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization.
You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution.
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap.
You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data).
Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment.
Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind.
Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool).
Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts.
Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets.
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
Please review our Flex First remote work policy.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata pipelinesdata modelingETLELTSQLdbtPythonAirflowSpark

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationownershipautonomycollaborationurgencyquality focusproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkleadership