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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Analytics Engineer - **Company:** Affirm - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $16,000.0 - $24,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Cloud Database, Software Quality, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Systems, Database Queries, Software Debugging, Document-Oriented Databases, Github, Python (Programming Language), Automation of Marketing, Operational Databases, Runbook, Data Processing, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Snowflake, Zapier, Git, Software Version Control - **Published:** August 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/7764109003 ## About the Role * 3+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or similar roles working with production data systems. * Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience building in dbt (modeling, testing, documentation). * Experience operating in a modern development workflow: + Git and pull-request based collaboration (GitHub preferred). + Familiarity with standard IDEs and collaborative debugging practices. * Experience working with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred). * A strong sense of ownership and comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments., * Finance/accounting data familiarity (e.g., close concepts, reconciliations, ledger-style modeling). * Experience with integration/automation platforms (Workato, Fivetran, or similar). * Experience supporting reporting layers and BI tooling. * Working knowledge of Python for data manipulation and automation. * Familiarity with CI pipelines and quality gates for code quality, testing, and build validation. * Interest in applying AI-assisted development responsibly within engineering guardrails. ## Description Financial Systems owns the data and reporting foundation for Accounting, and the operational reliability of the pipelines that power reporting, reconciliations, and automation. We are building a single source of truth for financial information using dbt and Snowflake to enable scalable BI and process automation across the org., We are hiring an Analytics Engineer focused on maintaining and optimizing our finance data platform, improving reliability, efficiency, and performance of our pipelines and core datasets. 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