Senior Data Engineer Tech Lead
About the job
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, ideally supporting go-to-market or business functions in a fast-paced environment.
- Hands-on experience with Postgres-based data platforms.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services; Amazon Redshift experience is a plus.
- Experience with Snowflake and/or BigQuery is a bonus.
- Ability to manage data integrations across Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude, Sigma, Clay, and similar tools.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience building modern data-stack pipelines using dbt, Fivetran, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration and transformation tooling.
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and/or artificial intelligence-enabled development in a data-engineering context.
- Familiarity with credit or financial data and the regulatory considerations involved in handling sensitive information.
- Experience with containerization using Docker or Kubernetes and continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Ability to lead technical planning and roadmap decisions, ideally with experience standing up or scaling a data platform from an early stage.
- Ability to partner effectively with executives, technical leadership, and non-technical teams.
- Experience leading or mentoring other engineers, with an interest in growing into a larger team-lead role as the data organization scales.
- Own the architecture for the data platform, including data warehouse design, partitioning strategy, access controls, and security, in partnership with Security and Infrastructure teams to meet compliance and performance requirements.
- Lead the integration of data platforms and models across recent company acquisitions, working toward unified data structures and a consolidated cloud environment.
- Design, implement, and maintain extract, transform, load and extract, load, transform pipelines that pull and merge data from multiple internal and external systems, ensuring clean, reliable, and scalable data flows.
- Partner with the Head of Data Platform and Chief Technology Officer to define and track key performance indicators, translating complex requirements into reliable data solutions that drive strategic decisions.
- Champion data quality and governance, ensuring insights are consistent, trustworthy, and well documented.
- Own billing data infrastructure, including backend warehouse tables, data models, and ongoing maintenance.
- Partner with Data Analysts to enable dashboards and metrics that deliver actionable insights for executive leadership.
- Mentor and help grow the current data engineer, and share knowledge across the organization through code reviews, documentation, and informal mentorship.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable data-visualization solutions using Sigma, Looker, or Tableau.
- Experience with multi-cloud or cross-cloud data migrations, such as Azure to Amazon Web Services.
- Experience integrating or unifying data platforms following company acquisitions or mergers and acquisitions.
- Experience in fintech, cybersecurity, or fraud prevention.
- Familiarity with data privacy regulations such as SOC 2, GDPR, or CCPA.
- Contributions to open-source data tools or communities.
About the company
CertifID helps real estate professionals prevent wire fraud in property transactions by providing a digital platform that validates the identities of everyone involved and securely shares wiring instructions. It works by connecting title companies, escrow officers, agents, and clients to confirm who they’re dealing with and transmit safe bank details within existing workflows. It differentiates itself by focusing specifically on the real estate funding process and offering ongoing fraud-trend updates, demos, and a network of title company partners. Its goal is to reduce wire-fraud risk, protect funds, and streamline closings for real estate professionals and their clients.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$81M
Headquarters
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- CertifID doubled down on consolidation with CloseSimple in June 2026 and Closinglock.
- The company expects 2.5 million protected transactions this year and over $7 billion moved.
- Centana-backed CertifID raised $47.5 million in 2025, funding aggressive product expansion.
What critics are saying
- Integrating CertifID, Closinglock, and CloseSimple creates execution drag through 2027.
- Title-company workflow sprawl invites point-solution competitors to undercut pricing and sales complexity.
- One major fraud breach or insurance claim destroys CertifID's trust moat overnight.
What makes CertifID unique
- CertifID now spans identity, closing workflows, and payments after Closinglock on October 1, 2026.
- Its 2026 launches bundle payoff ordering, eSignatures, earnest money, and cash-to-close.
- The platform protects 3,000 title companies and 35,000 professionals without forced migration.
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4%CertifID acquires Closinglock as real estate fraud platforms consolidate. CertifID has acquired Closinglock, combining two real estate fraud-prevention and closing technology platforms. Financial terms were not disclosed. CertifID has acquired Closinglock, bringing together two real estate technology companies built around identity verification, secure money movement and fraud prevention at the closing table. CertifID announced the acquisition Oct. 1. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal follows CertifID's June acquisition of CloseSimple and continues its expansion from wire-fraud protection into a broader closing platform. Two fraud platforms are becoming one closing stack. Closinglock built its business around protecting escrow workflows, verifying identities and securing the exchange of sensitive information and funds. CertifID has focused on identity verification, wire-fraud prevention and transaction protection. CertifID said the combined operation will connect fraud protection with the money movement inside a transaction. Closinglock founder and CEO Andy White is joining CertifID as chief strategy officer. The acquisition is especially notable because both companies have raised substantial outside capital while attacking overlapping parts of the same problem. WRE previously reported CertifID's $47.5 million Series C in 2025 and Closinglock's $34 million Series B. Wire fraud is pushing consolidation around the closing process. The transaction arrives as title companies, brokerages, lenders and consumers face increasingly sophisticated impersonation and payment-diversion schemes. The operational challenge is no longer simply identifying a suspicious wire instruction. Companies increasingly want identity, communications, document exchange and money movement protected through a connected workflow. CertifID's strategy has been moving in that direction. Its CloseSimple acquisition added client communication and closing-experience capabilities; Closinglock adds another established platform focused on secure escrow and transaction workflows. The companies have not disclosed a timetable for fully integrating their products or whether existing customers will be migrated onto a single platform. Those implementation details will determine how quickly the strategic logic of the acquisition becomes visible to title and settlement customers. What is already clear is that the fraud-prevention category is consolidating. Rather than remaining a point solution around wire verification, CertifID is assembling more of the closing process under one platform - at a time when fraud risk is forcing the industry to treat security as part of transaction infrastructure rather than an add-on. WRE NEWS - READER SUPPORT Help support the news that keeps you ahead. If WRE News brings value to your day, consider supporting the reporting that keeps its industry informed.
Title partners' fraud tools change as CertifID buys again. Published October 01, 2026, 2:50 p.m. EDT Updated October 01, 2026, 3:40 p.m. EDT The consolidation wave is extending beyond mortgage lenders and servicers, with fraud prevention and escrow management companies joining forces to create a safer closing process. Title fraud prevention firm CertifID acquired Closinglock, bringing together complementary capabilities across identity verification, fraud prevention, secure payments and real estate closing workflows to better protect people and money throughout a real estate transaction, the companies announced in a press release Thursday. This was CertifID's second acquisition in the past few months, first buying CloseSimple, a closing communications and automation platform used by hundreds of title companies, in June. The company aimed to combine identification and fraud detection, payments and final closing under one roof with the purchase, and now adds to it. "Title companies are being asked to protect more, move faster and deliver a better experience at a time when the risks have never been greater," said Tyler Adams, CEO of CertifID, in the release. "The challenges facing the real estate industry are real, persistent and bigger than any one company or product can solve alone." CertifID's acquisition comes as title companies face increasingly sophisticated fraud threats, growing pressure and higher expectations from buyers, sellers and real estate agents. Real estate fraud losses grew more than twice as fast as overall reported cybercrime losses last year, FBI IC3 data showed. Real estate wire fraud was also a top target for Business Email Compromise scams, which topped $3 billion in losses in 2025, according to the release. The combined organization will have approximately 220 employees and serve more than 3,000 title companies and 35,000 title professionals across the United States. Together, the companies have moved more than $7 billion in real estate payments and expect to protect 2.5 million real estate transactions this year. Discover how connected technology, integrated data and AI-embedded workflows can reduce silos and improve efficiency. Partner Insights from SitusAMC CertifID will continue investing in an open ecosystem across title production systems, title underwriters and other third-party platforms, the company said. "With continued headwinds in the real estate market, our responsibility is to deliver more protection and value for our customers without asking them to change platforms or restructure workflows," Adams said. Colin McNamara is a reporter for National Mortgage News. He recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in general business... Read full bio
CertifID, a real estate fraud prevention platform, has acquired Closinglock, an escrow management platform for secure money movement in real estate. The acquisition combines identity verification, fraud prevention, secure payments, and closing workflows to protect transactions. The deal comes as real estate fraud losses grew more than twice as fast as overall cybercrime losses last year, according to FBI IC3 data. Business Email Compromise scams in real estate topped $3 billion in losses. CertifID protected 1.55 million transactions in 2025 and recovered $145 million in stolen funds. Closinglock has protected over $900 billion across 2 million transactions. Together, they've moved more than $7 billion in real estate payments. The combined company will employ approximately 220 people and serve over 3,000 title companies across the United States. CertifID CEO Tyler Adams will lead the merged entity, whilst Closinglock CEO Andy White becomes Chief Strategy Officer.
CertifID adds operational scope with CloseSimple acquisition. The merger will bolster existing safeguards against AI threats, while providing a tool that should appeal to young homebuyers, leaders of the companies said.
CertifID, a platform specialising in real estate wire fraud prevention, has acquired CloseSimple, a closing communication and automation platform used by hundreds of title companies across the United States. The acquisition aims to transform the real estate closing process by combining CertifID's fraud prevention capabilities with CloseSimple's communication and automation tools. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.