Lead Data Engineer (Partner Company Role)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design the target-state data architecture: Postgres CDC, Kafka, Snowflake, client-facing data products
• ▹Own tooling decisions across ingestion, orchestration, transformation and quality layers
• ▹Implement CDC-based ingestion from PostgreSQL services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, K8s operator) using Debezium or equivalent
• ▹Build streaming and near-real-time pipelines with defined SLAs
• ▹Build a data quality control layer: checksums, reconciliation, schema validation, anomaly detection and alerting
• ▹Define quality checkpoints across the full pipeline, from source capture through Snowflake to client delivery
• ▹Define and enforce data contracts with service-owning teams for core entities: transaction, merchant, settlement and processing status
• ▹Build the external data delivery layer: financial settlement, transaction status, processor reconciliation and client analytics
• ▹Design tenant separation and implement replay/reload mechanisms for failure recovery
• ▹Start hands-on, then gradually hire and grow a small data engineering team as the function matures
• ▹Build a pragmatic roadmap with concrete deliverables at 3, 6 and 12 months

Requirements

• ▹5+ years in data engineering with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines
• ▹Hands-on experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL CDC (Debezium preferred), and Kafka
• ▹Solid AWS experience: S3, RDS, Aurora and cloud data infrastructure
• ▹Data quality engineering mindset: monitoring, reconciliation, lineage
• ▹Comfortable defining data contracts and driving requirements with backend engineering teams
• ▹Technical leadership experience: project ownership, cross-team alignment, delivery under constraints
• ▹English at B2 level and fluent Russian

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster and dbt
• ▹Payments domain knowledge: settlement, transaction lifecycle, processor integrations
• ▹Familiarity with gRPC and RabbitMQ, ability to read Go/Python service code

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹The opportunity to make something great even greater, with real impact on the company's growth
• ▹Career prospects at a young, highly ambitious company
• ▹Working with colleagues passionate about the business
• ▹Compensation matching competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
• ▹Remote work
• ▹20 days of vacation, bank holidays, sick leave, plus an additional birthday day off