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🕒 June 11

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Tilt (formerly Empower)

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💸 Finance

Fintech • B2C • Finance

Tilt is a financial technology company that provides cash advance, lines of credit, and credit card services aimed at empowering customers financially. With an emphasis on accessibility, Tilt offers flexible repayment plans and eligibility irrespective of a customer's credit history, enabling individuals to qualify based on their real-time financial habits. The platform is user-friendly, boasting positive customer experiences and a high rating, making it a convenient option for those seeking to manage their finances and build credit effectively.

📋 Description

• Design the technical architecture of the Databricks Data Warehouse — ingestion, storage, compute, orchestration, governance, and observability — and act as the pattern reviewer and architectural sounding board for the team. • Build, scale, and optimize secure, self-service frameworks for batch and streaming data so the same request shape is never solved by hand twice. • Treat the platform like production software: define and defend SLOs, own lineage and observability, and lead incident triage and root-cause analysis to durable fixes. • Design governance and multi-tenancy as first-class guardrails — least-privilege access, auditing, cost controls, and privacy-aware patterns — across app-team schemas and multiple workspaces. • Automate and harden data infrastructure and CI/CD so the warehouse stays safe to change at scale. • Raise the team’s technical bar through design review, code review, and mentorship, setting standards that are adopted because they’re good. • Make documentation a first-class deliverable — every pattern ships with the docs that let an analyst, partner team, or AI agent use it without asking us.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of data engineering / data platform experience, including significant time as a senior IC building reusable infrastructure that other teams depend on at scale. • Demonstrated technical leadership — setting architecture direction, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers on a data platform team. • Strong software-engineering fundamentals in Python (or another Object Oriented Language) — production-grade code, testing, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) on a cloud provider stack (Azure, AWS, or GCP). • Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, and a cloud provider stack (AWS, GCP, or Azure). • Data governance, security, and multi-tenancy competence — least-privilege access, auditing, lineage, and privacy-aware design. • Able to effectively leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude, Augment) to enhance productivity, code quality, and collaboration.

🏖️ Benefits

• Virtual-first teamwork: The Tilt team is collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones, and counting. You’ll get started with a WFH office reimbursement. • Competitive pay: We're big on potential, and it's reflected in our competitive compensation packages and generous equity. • Complete support: Find flexible health plans at every premium level, and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards. • Visibility is yours: You can count on direct exposure to our leadership team — we’re a team where good ideas travel quickly. • Paid global onsites: Magic happens IRL: we gather twice yearly to reconnect over shared meals or kayaking adventures. (We’ve visited Vail, San Diego, and Mexico City, to name a few.) • Impact is recognized: Growth opportunities follow your contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.