Data Engineer

We're Checkout.com 
Checkout.com is one of the most exciting and valuable fintechs in the world, with our Series D taking our valuation to $40 billion. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. 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, Klarna 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.
About the role
Checkout.com is looking for a high-reaching Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. Our team’s mission is to ultimately provide all the tools/platforms which will ensure data can be easily demonstrated to the benefit of our products, merchants, and internal collaborators/teams.Our focus should be on improving 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build reliable infrastructure and data pipelines in AWS.
• Reduce latency of data ingested/available across the platform.
• Increase governance of our datasets through the implementation and adoption of our schema registry, data cataloging and information discovery solutions.
• Increase monitoring/observability (availability, security, data latency, data quality, query performance, costs, auditing) across our Data Platform (warehouse (Snowflake) and streaming (Kafka)) and downstream systems/applications.
• Facilitate the management and integration of access management framework (RBAC, IAM) across the platform.
• Actively address any technical/documentation/monitoring debt.

About You:

• Strong engineering background with a curiosity about data.
• Creative problem solver with good attention to detail.
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses, preferably Snowflake.
• Experience working with workflow management solutions, preferably Airflow.
• 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#
• Familiarity working with dbt (or similar SQL pipeline solution like dataform).


• If you feel like you're a good fit but don't tick all the boxes, please still apply as we'd love to hear from you! 

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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.comOur 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 1800 people across 19 international offices. To date, we’ve raised a total of $1.8 billion, with our Series D valuing us at $40 billion. We believe in equal opportunities
We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 
Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.
When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.