Senior Data Engineer

We're Checkout.com 
Checkout.com is one of the most exciting and valuable fintechs in the world. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Binance and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re number 9 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor’s list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. So, join us to build tomorrow, today.
Senior Data Engineer at Checkout.com:
Checkout.com is looking for an ambitious Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. Our team’s mission is to ultimately provide all the tools/platforms which will ensure data is can be easily demonstrated to the benefit of our products, merchants and internal collaborators/teams.
Our focus should be on maximising the amount of time other teams spend on solving business problems/innovating their products and minimising time spent on technical details around implementation, deployment and monitoring of their data solutions.
We're building for scale. As such, much of what we design and implement today will be the technology/infrastructure which will serve hundreds of teams and petabyte-level volumes of data.

About you:

• Strong engineering background with an interest in data.
• Creative problem solver with good attention to detail.
• Solid experience working with cloud data warehouses, preferably Snowflake.
• Experience working with workflow management solutions, preferably Airflow.
• Experience working with dbt (or similar SQL pipeline solution like dataform).
• Experience working with SQL and Python.
• Comfortable with the Unix shell and shell scripting.
• Experience describing infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar.
• Experience using, crafting, and implementing CI/CD pipelines.

The topics / technologies below would be a nice to have:

• Familiarity with Looker
• Familiarity with Stream Processing (Kafka or Kinesis)
• Familiarity working with Docker and container deployment
• Familiarity with Java/Scala/C#

Key Responsibilities:

• Increase monitoring/observability of our Data Warehouse (Snowflake) and downstream systems/applications: availability, security, data latency, data quality, query performance, costs, auditing, etc
• Guarantee we're GDPR/PCI compliant
• Allow other teams to quickly create, deploy and monitor Data Warehouse modelling pipelines
• Reduce latency of data ingested/available in Snowflake
• Increase governance of our datasets (data cataloguing, information discovery, etc)
• Facilitate the management of our Snowflake RBAC framework and integration of our RBAC
• Framework with our governance strategy (schema registry, data cataloguing, etc)
• Actively address any technical/documentation/monitoring debt

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What we stand forAt Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people. #AspireWe supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences. #ExcelWe don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards. #UniteWe're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together. Want to see us in action? Take a peek inside here. More about Checkout.comWe empower businesses to adapt, innovate and thrive with the connected payments they deserve. Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1000 people across 17 international offices. To date, we’ve raised a total of $830 million, with our recent Series C valuing us at $15 billion. We believe in equal opportunitiesCheckout.com is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is the right thing to do and is central to our success.