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RalabsData Engineer
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We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the cutting-edge FinTech project from the US.
The Hiring Process
- Recruitment interview — up to 30 minutes;
- Technical interview — 1 hour;
- PM call — 30 min.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of commercial experience as a Data Engineer, with hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL, including writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex SQL queries in production environments
- Commercial experience with Apache Airflow, including developing, maintaining, and monitoring DAGs
- Hands-on experience with AWS data services such as RDS (PostgreSQL/Aurora), S3, EC2, CloudWatch, and ideally QuickSight
- Ability to communicate directly with clients, proactively ask questions to understand business requirements, and translate them into technical solutions
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal Business Analyst support, taking ownership of data engineering tasks from analysis to delivery
- Strong documentation skills, with experience documenting ETL pipelines, SQL scripts, workflows, and technical processes to support knowledge sharing and operational continuity
- Upper-Intermediate or higher English level
Responsibilities:
- ETL Development & Data Pipeline Management
- Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines for tenant data onboarding and validation
- Build and manage the data mapping tool/ETL platform (a core product stream)
- Automate data import and transformation processes to support the goal of onboarding ~4 new tenants per quarter
- Database Performance & Script Optimization
- Analyze and optimize long-running PostgreSQL queries that cause production performance degradation
- Rewrite and improve SQL scripts used by the client team (tenant-specific data processing scripts)
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for SQL scripts
- Address IO spikes, database locks, and replication issues
- Apache Airflow Operations
- Configure, maintain, and develop DAGs in Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration
- Coordinate Airflow deployment and validation with the client team
- Monitor and troubleshoot Airflow pipelines in production
- AWS Data Infrastructure
- Work with AWS services: RDS (PostgreSQL/Aurora), QuickSight, EC2, S3, CloudWatch
- Support QuickSight optimization for reporting
- Contribute to AWS cost optimization related to data services
- Collaboration & Data Quality
- Collaborate with the client team on data processes and tenant scripts
- Ensure data integrity during tenant onboarding, payment history imports, and data cleanup
- Handle deduplication and data validation challenges in the multi-tenant environment