Staff Software Engineer, Data

Responsibilities

• Arcitect Data Excellence: Design and evolve high scale data platforms, storage solutions, and transformation patterns that serve as the "gold standard" for the organization.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Define the long term roadmap for data infrastructure, balancing immediate business needs with a 6–12 month strategic horizon.
• Champion Data Contracts: Lead the implementation of robust data contracts and schema evolution practices to ensure reliability across global product teams.
• Solve Complex Ambiguity: Troubleshoot and resolve the most challenging technical bottlenecks in our data pipelines, improving system observability and performance at scale.
• Empower the Function: Act as a key technical advisor for senior leadership, helping to shape strategic investments in our data stack.
• Mentor and Scale: Raise the technical bar by mentoring senior engineers, leading cross functional task forces, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence and data driven decision making.
• Operational Leadership: Pioneer architectural patterns that become reference implementations for the entire company.

Qualifications

• Extensive Technical Leadership: Proven experience leading large scale data engineering initiatives in global, high-growth technology environments.
• Expertise in Distributed Systems: Deep mastery of data processing frameworks (such as Spark, Flink, or Kafka) and modern cloud data warehousing.
• Systems Design Mastery: Ability to independently design and refine solutions for complex data problems, considering long-term scalability and user experience.
• Strategic Acumen: Demonstrated ability to link technical decisions to business drivers like operational efficiency and customer acquisition costs.
• Proactive Problem Solving: A track record of identifying architectural gaps and implementing fixes independently with high autonomy.
• Nice To Have: Experience with ML Ops and supporting Machine Learning workflows at scale, experience in the financial services or FinTech sector.