Data Engineer

Our Company

Private investments such as venture capital, hedge funds, and private equity make up roughly 25% of the investment universe. Traditionally, investors, advisors, banks, families, and managers track hundreds of investments in complicated spreadsheets, file folders, and busy inboxes. Not only is this tedious and time-consuming, but it is rife with opportunities for manual data entry errors, inconsistent reporting, and lost information. Enter Arch.

Arch is a Series A financial technology company that automates the management of private investments, improving access, understanding, and the human experience of investing across asset classes. Arch delivers standardized data, documents, and insights in a single platform, avoiding the need to chase information across dozens or hundreds of fund manager portals.Our purpose is to save investors time while empowering them to make more informed investment decisions, leading to better financial outcomes. 

We are a fast growing, dynamic company serving hundreds of clients, and we are looking to hire in all departments as we scale.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll write much of the code for processing and organizing data from hundreds of sources in thousands of formats, keeping Arch’s data organized as we continue to scale and grow our company. 

The Data Engineer role at Arch is a role whose responsibilities are tightly aligned with the efficiency and overall success of the Operations team.

Key Responsibilities

As a Data Engineer, you will be an integral part of our growing Operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for: 

• Diving into and mastering the many sources and formats of alternative investment data.

• Maintaining, refining, and augmenting Arch data processing pipelines.

• Both applying traditional data ingestion methods and making use of generative AI where relevant.

• Tracking and improving Arch’s data quality and processing efficiency.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Reach out to us if you:

• Are proficient in JavaScript or another mainstream programming language 

• Know SQL

• Are a quick learner who enjoys partnering with others and solving difficult problems

• Are interested in alternative investments and/or financial services

Bonus points if you:

• Enjoy writing code to process and understand data

• Are familiar with the terms capital calls, IRRs, recallable distributions, or K-1s

• Have taken finance or accounting courses

Some perks of working for Arch include:

• Strong Team – You’ll be backed by a strong team that consistently exceeds client expectations and ships new products quickly.

• Your work is high impact - Being part of a small team means you have real responsibility and impact from day one. You'll be involved in discussions that drive the growth and direction of our platform from the very beginning.

• You'll learn a lot about a lot - The operations team functions across the entire company, from working with new and prospective clients, to liaising with the engineering team to build a new feature or improve an existing one.

• Product Market Fit – We have strong product market fit, exceptionally low churn, and have grown mostly organically through word of mouth.  

• Team community and camaraderie – We have enormous trust in each other and always do what we can do to support one another. We're always ready to step in to help.