Career Openings at Angaza

Outcomes

• Design and engineer data transformations in our data warehouse to:
• Power stakeholder-facing dashboards
• Prepare data for reverse ETL to business systems (e.g. pushing results back out to Salesforce)
• Allow data science team members to focus on analysis rather than data prep
• Support the process of model deployment and development by creating a feature store to feed into these products
• Support the infrastructure management and maintenance of Snowflake, the analytics data warehouse
• Work on API data ingestion and help manage our ETL services (Hevo, Stitch, Buildkite)

Competencies

• Strong SQL skills (Angaza uses Snowflake with DBT in our data stack)
• Proficiency creating ETL & analytics products in Python (It would be useful to have experience in: NumPy, Pandas, psycopg2 or other SQL interface, and a visualization library of your choice)
• Strong Git change control practices
• Possess strong business insight and appreciation of the challenges facing growing businesses

You

• Thrive in a cooperative, dynamic environment
• Are passionate about developing efficient data structures to support an analytics function
• Have strong quantitative, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Pride yourself on attention to detail
• Exhibit a strong tendency towards self-management
• Exemplify Angaza’s key values: maximizing impact, empathetic, courageous, trustworthy, curious, and collaborative

Recommended Experience

• We expect candidates to have at least four-five years of practical experience in a role requiring frequent use of SQL or SQL + Python, or a relevant graduate degree such as a masters in information systems
• We also expect candidates to have experience developing in DBT, or a comparable transformation tool

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What You'll Do

• Develop backend features for key integrations including developer APIs, ETL services, and device management
• Design and build new platform functionality, such as loan management, credit underwriting, and transaction and payment processing at scale
• Review code, pair with colleagues, and provide mentorship

We're Looking for Someone With

• 4+ years experience in a relevant field
• Experience with Python
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure (or similar)
• Experience designing and implementing APIs at scale

Our Stack

• Backend: Python with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Celery
• Infrastructure: AWS with PostgreSQL, EC2, Lambda, and friends managed through Terraform
• Frontend: modern JS with React/Redux
• Mobile: Android with Kotlin

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Role Summary

• Are you looking for an opportunity to use your analytical skills and business insight to alleviate poverty and empower people to access life-changing products?
• You will help us use data to focus internal priorities, drive business decisions, and benefit our customer base.
• You will serve internal stakeholders, customers, and external partners with quality analytics and business intelligence products, especially visualizations in our service Sisense.
• Angaza is building a modern analytics practice around a deep commitment to our core values, high-quality tools, proven development practices, and a philosophy of continuous professional improvement, and we need you to help us make that vision a reality!

Competencies

• Advanced SQL skills (Angaza uses Snowflake & Postgres)
• Ability to design an efficient data model for use within modern BI tools (Angaza uses Hevo, dbt)
• Demonstrated ability to design and build rich data visualizations (Angaza uses Sisense)
• Understanding of applied statistics & common modeling techniques in a business context
• Possess strong business insight and appreciation of the challenges facing growing businesses
• Excellent data governance practices, including Git management

You

• Thrive in a cooperative, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment
• Are passionate about beautifully presented data that communicates complex information in a straightforward way
• Have strong quantitative, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Pride yourself on attention to detail
• Exhibit a strong tendency towards self-management and enjoy balancing multiple projects simultaneously
• Exemplify Angaza’s key values: maximizing impact, innovating with empathy, being courageous, deserving stakeholder trust, and being curious and collaborative

Recommended Experience

• We recognize there are many paths to success in analytics, but we suspect the strongest candidates will have at least three (3) years of experience in at least one of the following categories:
• Supporting executive decision-making through descriptive and statistical analysis at an early-stage organization
• Evaluating patterns of customer growth / credit & risk at a financial technology company with a special focus on consumer lending
• Analytics engineering