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Company Name: tastytrade Role: Data Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, 3 days/week) About the Role We re looking for a Data Engineer to join our Analytics team. You ll own data pipeline architecture, upskill those around you, and have real influence on how we build our data platform. You ll be part of a full stack data team of data scientists, data engineers, and analysts who take full ownership of our data pipelines and feature generation. This is a full-scope role: you ll design systems, make tech decisions, ship, and iterate. If you have a good idea and can execute it, we d love to learn from you. Our team works with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Tableau, Python, AWS (S3, ECR, EKS), GitHub, ArgoCD, Elementary, and Grafana.

What You ll Do Design and build scalable data pipelines using dbt, Python, Airflow, and Snowflake to support business processes, such as our executive reporting dashboards Own pipeline architecture and performance, and drive strategic initiatives to improve our data platform Make architectural decisions, including schema design, tool selection, and trade-offs Own data quality and observability, and build the infrastructure that keeps our data right Write ELT code using modern data engineering practices, including Git and automated testing and deployments Debug production data issues when they break (and they will) Process, clean, and validate data from a variety of external sources and internal data pipelines Lead ad-hoc analysis using internal and external data sources to help teams understand how customers interact with our products Collaborate with upstream data producers (Software Engineering/DevOps) and downstream data consumers (Marketing, Product, and Leadership) Contribute to data visualization and reporting efforts in Tableau Upskill those around you through code review, design collaboration, and knowledge sharing Optimize performance, improve processes, and level up team practices

Who You Are You have 2-5 years of professional data engineering experience You have expert SQL skills: you think in queries and optimize ruthlessly You have real dbt experience, meaning actual production work and not just exposure You write solid Python, with production code rather than scripts You have hands-on experience with Airflow (or Prefect/Dagster) You have experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) You understand the data product lifecycle, standards, and practices You know your way around data quality functions like cleansing, standardization, parsing, and validation You can design systems and lead projects You communicate clearly with non-engineers and engineers alike You re proficient with version control (Git/GitHub) and command line interfaces Preferred

Qualifications Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code experience CI/CD and DevOps practices Data quality frameworks (Elementary, Great Expectations, Monte Carlo) Financial services background Advanced Airflow patterns and custom operators

Experience with agile development practices and the project lifecycle Company

Perks +

Benefits:    Performance Bonuses    Stock Purchase Options    Medical/Vision/Dental

Benefits  401k Plan   20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)    10 Paid Sick Days    Gym Membership Reimbursement    Commuter

Benefits    Pet Insurance    Wellness & Mental Health Programs    Charitable Donation Matching    Two Paid Volunteer Days Off    Daily catered lunch when in the office    Full kitchen with snacks and beverages    In-building gym    Shuttle to/from Metra    Base Salary Range: $130,000-$150,000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate s level of experience and qualifications. Discretionary Performance Bonus: 8-12% of base salary based on individual and company performance. About IGNA + tasty IG North America is home to tastytrade, tastylive & tastyfx—a family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors.

Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. From our headquarters in Chicago s Fulton Market, our team builds award-winning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading, with tastylive providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US. tastycrypto provides self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance. We re a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact.

Whether you re building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, you ll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users. The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we ll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG|tasty – the future gets built here.

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago s growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars. tastytrade | tastylive  | tastyfx 1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607