Full-Time

Data Engineer

Arbor

Arbor

11-50 employees

Automates best energy-rate switching for homes

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
Python
BigQuery
SQL
Looker
Snowflake
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 3–6+ years of experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role, ideally at a high-growth startup or in a domain involving complex, real-time data (energy, fintech, marketplace, or similar)
  • Strong dbt fundamentals — you know how to design models that are maintainable, not just functional. You think about testing, documentation, and downstream consumers as part of the job, not afterthoughts
  • Solid SQL is a given; Python for pipeline development or data quality tooling is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake, including schema design, query performance, and understanding the cost/performance tradeoffs of how data is structured and accessed
  • Comfort with GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub) is a plus given our infrastructure footprint
  • Experience building dashboards for business stakeholders in tools like Hex, Looker, or similar
  • Energy markets or regulated industry experience is not required, but genuine curiosity about how electricity pricing, competitive markets, and the grid work will make this role more interesting to you
  • An AI-native approach to your own productivity — you're actively using AI tools to accelerate development and aren't waiting for someone to tell you to start
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain data pipeline infrastructure, spanning ingestion through Fivetran and custom pipelines from our Google Cloud Platform production systems into Snowflake
  • Own our dbt transformation layer end-to-end — modeling energy market data, customer lifecycle events, marketplace results, and utility rate feeds into clean, reliable, and well-documented data assets
  • Partner closely with engineering, operations, and leadership to deliver analytics that directly inform business decisions — rate monitoring, supplier pricing trends, customer switching patterns, and marketplace performance
  • Work in Hex to build and maintain dashboards that surface actionable intelligence for non-technical stakeholders
  • Help define data contracts and schema standards that make our Snowflake environment trustworthy as we scale
  • Play a meaningful role in shaping how we use AI in our data workflows — whether that's automating data quality monitoring, accelerating development with AI-assisted SQL and Python, or surfacing anomalies in complex regulatory data feeds
Desired Qualifications
  • An AI-native approach to productivity in data workflows — actively using AI tools to accelerate development and tooling
  • Genuine curiosity about electricity pricing, competitive markets, and the grid is helpful for role fit
  • Familiarity with energy markets or regulated industry context, even if not required

Arbor helps residential customers lower their energy bills by automatically securing the best electricity and gas rates. The service is free for users and earns a commission from its energy supply partners when it successfully switches a customer to a new plan. Arbor continuously monitors hundreds of energy rates and automatically switches users to better plans without any service interruption; users continue paying their normal utility bills but at a lower rate. It also offers Lifetime Protection, which provides ongoing rate monitoring and automatic upgrades to new low rates when current rates expire, ensuring savings over the long term. Compared with other options, Arbor costs nothing to join, runs in the background, and collects commissions from partners, making it a hands-off way to save on utilities. The goal is to help households reduce energy costs with minimal effort while ensuring ongoing access to the best available rates.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$9M

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $9 million seed round on September 7, 2023, led by First Round Capital.
  • Secured billion-dollar GridMarket order for 200 Halcyon turbines delivering 5 GW.
  • Targets AI data center power needs with 100 MW generation by 2030.

What critics are saying

  • GridMarket breaches from manufacturing delays forfeit penalties in 12-24 months.
  • Deregulation ends in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, killing commissions in 24-36 months.
  • Vistra, Constellation insolvencies collapse retail supplier revenue in 18-36 months.

What makes Arbor unique

  • Arbor automatically switches residential users to optimal electricity and gas rates.
  • Free service earns commissions from supply partners without user costs.
  • Lifetime Protection feature monitors rates and prevents hikes indefinitely.

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Jun 6th, 2024
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