Python Data Engineer

About Us:

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, Specialized and Zappos rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com. 

About the Role:
We are looking for self-driven, self-motivated, and passionate technical experts who would love to join us in solving the hardest problems in the EPM space. If you are capable of diving deep into our tech stack to glean through memory allocations, floating point calculations, and data indexing (in addition to many others), come join us.

Position Responsibilities:

• Shape financial time-series data: outlier detection/handling, missing-value imputation, techniques for small/limited datasets.
• Develop & refine forecasting models (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM/GRU).
• Implement anomaly-detection solutions (Isolation Forest, One-Class SVM, statistical methods).
• Profile & optimize Python code (vectorization, multiprocessing, cProfile).
• Monitor model performance and iterate to improve accuracy.
• Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to integrate solutions.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years in a mid-level Data Engineer role, preferably in analytics or fintech.
• Expert in Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn) with hands-on performance tuning.
• Experience with Flask and Django for building and deploying Python services.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and IDEs (Cursor, Windsurf) and modern editor integrations (VS Code + Cline).
• Proficiency in C# for .NET integration tasks.
• Demonstrated time-series forecasting expertise (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM/GRU).
• Strong data preprocessing skills: outlier treatment, imputation, handling sparse datasets.
• Proficient in SQL for complex queries on large datasets.
• Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Why Planful 

Planful exists to enrich the world by helping our customers and our people achieve peak performance. To foster the best in class work we’re so proud of, we’ve created a best in class culture, including:

• 2 Volunteer days,  Birthday PTO, and quarterly company Wellness Days
• 3 months supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your  Maternity/Paternity leave
• Annual Planful Palooza, our in-person, company-wide culture kickoff

Company-wide Mentorship program with Executive sponsorship of CFO and Managed solutions that drive our products and services forward. You will lead a team of talented engineers, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams across our India and North America leadership hubs to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business objectives. This role offers an exciting opportunity to leverage your expertise in end to end product development to drive innovation, mentor junior team members, and contribute to the overall technical vision of the organization.