Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake & Kafka

Overview

Join Weavr.io, a pioneering fintech company, as a Senior Data Engineer and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the payments landscape. Weavr.io is at the forefront of the embedded finance industry, offering innovative solutions that integrate financial services into software seamlessly. This role is based in Malta and offers a remote working option.

Role & Opportunity

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will dive deep into the heart of data engineering, crafting, developing, and refining our innovative payments data warehouse and dashboarding solutions. Your technical prowess will be vital as you work alongside passionate stakeholders to solve complex challenges and enhance the functionality of our cutting-edge payments platform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborative Design and Implementation: Work in a multi-functional team to design and implement phases of product and technical initiatives, making effective data engineering decisions.
• Scalable Data Models: Design, develop and maintain scalable data models to ensure robust data management.
• Data Pipeline Construction: Build batch and real-time data pipelines to facilitate efficient data processing.
• Analytical Support and Dashboards: Work closely with internal stakeholders to provide analytical support and develop dashboards for operational use.
• Critical Environment Support: Support the running of data solutions in a critical environment to maintain high availability and performance.
• Best Practices Enforcement: Enforce software development best practices, including monitoring and debugging, to enhance system reliability.
• Operations and Maintenance Assistance: Assist in the daily data operations and maintenance tasks to ensure smooth system functionality.

About You

• Effective Communicator: Great at communicating ideas and working collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals.
• Proactive and Positive Attitude: A proactive, positive "can-do" attitude towards work, with a keen interest in learning about new technologies.
• Technologically Savvy: Up-to-date and well-rounded knowledge of cutting-edge technologies, along with current data engineering practices and processes.
• Data Warehousing Expertise: Advanced knowledge of Data Warehouse (DWH) concepts and data modeling techniques.
• SQL and Cloud DWH Proficiency: Expert knowledge of SQL and experience with cloud-based DWH solutions, including Snowflake.
• ETL/ELT and Orchestration Tools Experience: Experience with building ETL/ELT processes and using orchestration tools such as Airflow, NiFi, or similar.
• Streaming and In-memory Data Stores: Knowledge or familiarity with streaming frameworks like Kafka or Google Pub Sub, as well as in-memory data stores such as Redis or Memcached.
• Dashboard and Reporting Tools: Proven experience using dashboard and reporting tools, including Metabase, Power BI, Tableau, or similar.

What’s in it for You

• Competitive Salary: Regularly benchmarked against industry standards.
• Flexible Working Environment: Hybrid & remote-friendly work options in the UK and Malta.
• Private Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical coverage.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Weavr.io is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.