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Data Engineer

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The Company: Root is a car insurance company founded on the simple idea that people who drive well are less likely to get in accidents, and that means they should pay less for insurance. With a small initial venture capital investment, Root was faced with the challenge of building the entirety of the technology necessary to run a car insurance carrier from scratch. Through applying techniques to gain significant engineering leverage in the short-term without compromising long-term velocity, the engineering team at Root was able to deliver successfully, creating one of the fastest venture-backed companies to ever reach a billion dollar valuation. 

Our Progress: We’ve been in business now for four years. In those four years, we have become the fastest growing auto insurance company, on a % growth in premium basis. Our most recent round of funding valued us at $3.65 billion and brought our total VC funding to $527.5 million. In the last two years, we have grown our team from 60 to 800. 

The Team: Our Data Warehouse has become a central part of the analytics process.  We gather data from across the organization and from third party vendors to help answer critical business questions.  Our team prides itself on being able to blend software engineering with fundamental Data Warehousing concepts. We often take advantage of tools that aren’t typically found in Root’s software stack, but we approach these tools with the same solid engineering principals. Our goals include simplifying complex data, offering high performance, and ensuring that we deliver data on time to our analysts.

Our tech stack includes:
AWS Redshift
AWS S3
AWS Glue
AWS DMS
Ruby/Rails
Python
Spark
Fivetran
Terraform

For more information on engineering at Root see root.engineering

Responsibilities

  • Work with product, actuarial, and engineering teams to understand and scope new features for our environment
  • Design & develop data structures that support downstream analysis
  • Design & develop sustainable, fast ETL processes using SQL
  • Provide peer review for teammates on their change requests
  • Create processes to identify, prioritize, and illustrate data quality issues and remediation efforts.
  • Design solutions which help us to reach our overall goals
  • Help to ensure data quality and meet data delivery SLA’s

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in the insurance industry is strongly preferred
  • Experience using technologies listed above is preferred
  • Solid SQL skills.  Ability to transform data without the use of an ETL tool.
  • Experience using version control tools like GIT
  • Familiarity with programming languages like Ruby or Python
  • Familiarity with DevOps & Agile processes

Get In Touch

Finding the right people to help us build Root is a top priority. Whether you would like to explore the possibility of working together or simply learn more about the position, we’d love to hear from you!

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At Root, we judge people based on the merit of their work, not who they are. If you are passionate about what this role entails and solving real problems, we encourage you to apply. We want to learn about you and what you can add to our team.

Who we are

We’re harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize insurance. Using machine learning and mobile telematic platforms, we’ve built one of the most innovative FinTech companies in the world. And we’re just getting started.

What draws people to Root

Our success is in large part due to our unwavering standards in hiring. We recognize that our products are only as good as the people building and promoting them. We want individuals who find solutions by going through the cycle of ideation to implementation with curiosity, rigor, and an analytical lens. Ask anyone who works here and you’ll hear similar reasons for why they joined:

Autonomy—for assertive self-starters, the opportunities to contribute are limitless. Impact—by challenging the way it’s always been done, we solve problems that have a big impact on our business. Collaboration—we encourage rich discussion and civil debate at every turn. People—we are inspired by the collection of crazy-smart people around us.

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