Jr. Data Engineer

Description

American Credit Acceptance will not provide sponsorship for employment-based visas or immigration benefits for this position. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Are you obsessed with solving business problems that have a real, positive impact on our customers and company? We are an AI-first engineering shop, leveraging AI tools to solve business problems. As an entry-level Data Engineer, you will be the pilot driving AI tools for code generation, peer reviews, security scanning, quality assurance, and production support. Your primary responsibility is not to hand-write code all day, but to serve as the skilled human-in-the-cockpit ensuring AI-generated data solutions are correct, secure, and performant, and solve the most impactful business problems.

Reasonable accommodation may be provided for individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Priority #1 is knowing our business. You will be provided with extensive training on our business and then be expected to take the initiative to maintain and grow this knowledge.
• You will then use your business knowledge to unleash your internal entrepreneur to identify, understand, and solve business problems.
• You will solve business problems by building AI-generated data solutions:
• Collaborate closely with business partners to turn requirements into precise prompts and acceptance criteria.
• Prompt, review, debug, and validate AI-generated data pipelines, transformations, and code with minimal supervision.
• Expertly prompt and iterate with AI coding tools to produce high-quality solutions.
• Perform code reviews on AI-generated and human-written pull requests.
• Prompt and maintain automated tests and data quality checks across pipelines.
• Identify bugs, security issues, performance problems, data quality issues, or architectural mismatches in AI output and either fix them or re-prompt effectively.
• After you launch the solution, constantly circle back with the business to confirm the solution is solving the problem and rapidly iterate to improve its effectiveness.
• Work in a team setting with other engineers or tackle a problem independently.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 0-2 years of professional experience (internships and academic or personal projects count).
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of relational databases.
• Ability to quickly read, understand, and debug Python code.
• Working knowledge of Git and pull-request-based workflows.
  
  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to clearly explain technical work, reasoning, and trade-offs, verbally and in writing, to engineers and business partners.

• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and prompt-driven development (professional, internship, academic, or personal projects).
• Exposure to cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred).
• Exposure to building data pipelines or ETL/ELT processes (coursework and projects count).
• Familiarity with data modeling and data warehousing concepts.
• Exposure to AWS or another cloud platform.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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