Data Engineer

Nium is a next-generation financial services platform  that enables companies around the world to unlock new revenue opportunities and improve cash flow economics

Nium is a leader in its geographical and payment service breadth, owning licenses in the world’s largest and fastest-growing economies. Our modular platform allows banks, payment providers, travel companies, and other businesses to collect and disburse funds in local currencies to over 100 countries, plus issue physical and virtual cards globally. Our proprietary set of APIs embeds financial services and can bring to life multiple B2B and B2C use cases in a matter of weeks.

Nium is part of CB Insights Fintech 250, which highlights the most promising Fintech companies globally. Today, Nium serves over 130 million customers and enables platforms to provide access to financial services to over 3 billion people across the world.

Where do you come into the picture?

The Data Engineer role is part of the Business Intelligence function at Nium Travel. The Data Engineer collaborates closely with stakeholders across the company to design, develop and maintain our payments data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Data Engineers draw their expertise and experience to assist in engineering high-quality solutions to complex problems in the domain, helping to shape the future of our platform and constantly raise the bar.

What would a day in your #Life@Nium look like?

• Acquire and maintain an in-depth understanding of the business logic embodied in our data solutions, its development infrastructure and project delivery process.
• Work in a multi-functional team to design and implement phases of product and technical initiatives, making effective data engineering decisions.
• Be accountable for quality code and a champion of best industry practices, keeping up to date with technological trends.
• Actively participate in guilds and community of practice teams and initiatives, shaping the technology roadmap
• Eager to learn about new technologies and adapt to team dynamics.
• Ability to support the running of data solutions in a critical environment.
• Urge to learn about the dynamics of the payments eco-system.

Requirements

• Experience working in data or business intelligence environments.
• Well-rounded knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and data engineering practices and processes, up to date with the latest developments.
• Good knowledge of data warehouse design and concepts
• Good knowledge of an object-oriented language such as Python, Java or Scala
• Expert in SQL
• Experience with Database Management Systems such as Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
• Proficient in using a data integration tool such as Talend, Pentaho or SSIS.
• Experience using a data visualisation tool such as PowerBI, Tableau or QlikView.
• Experience of an analytics engine such as Apache Spark and ability to write applications using libraries such as DataFrames and Spark Streaming is desirable.
• Knowledge of statistical computing language such as R will be considered an asset.

Benefits

• Assistance relocating to Malta.
• Full health insurance coverage.
• Annual wellness stipend for sports equipment or gym memberships.
• Free-flowing, healthy snacks at our Malta office location.
• Professional training and development opportunities.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.