Senior Data Engineer

Our Mission, Your Success:

Are you as thrilled as us to have you embark on your next adventure?
We link professionals from Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia with top US start-ups, by empowering challenge seekers like you to build successful careers. Our ultimate vision is to offer exclusive career opportunities with a focus on attracting, retaining, and developing the best talents.

Our client, Your Impact:

Our well-funded US client is leading the fight against climate change by revolutionizing clean energy options for consumers and businesses. As a team member, you can shape the future of energy and make a positive impact while experiencing professional development.

What you’ll do:

• Design, build and maintain the tooling that the wider Data team uses to interact with our data platform, including CI/CD pipelines for our data lakehouse, unit/integration/validation testing frameworks for our data pipelines, and command-line tools for ad-hoc data evaluation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines in an AWS environment, centered on our Snowflake instance and using Fivetran, Prefect and dbt.
• Collaborate with data analysts, analytics engineers, and software engineers to understand data requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
• Identify and implement best practices for data ingestion, transformation, and storage to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
• Optimize, monitor and tune data pipelines to proactively address any issues or bottlenecks for improved performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain documentation for data pipelines.

Requirements:

• 5+ years as a Data Engineer, data-adjacent Software Engineer, or a did-everything small data team member with a focus on building and maintaining data pipelines.
• Strong Python skills, especially in the context of data orchestration.
• Strong understanding of database management and design, including experience with Snowflake or an equivalent platform.
• Familiarity with data integration patterns, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehousing concepts.
• Experience with Prefect, Airflow, or similar data orchestration tools.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail; Customer-oriented and empathetic approach to data-driven business understanding.

Nice-to-haves:

• Undergraduate and/or graduate degree in math, statistics, engineering, computer science, or related technical field
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience in the energy sector

Benefits:

• Salary Range; 4000$ – 4500$
• Private health insurance
• Flexible schedule with weekly flex time and minimal internal meetings
• Generous holiday schedule, including a week-long summer break
• Professional development and volunteer days for personal growth
• Access to top-quality office equipment provided by the company

Further details:

• Hybrid position working with US teams based in Macedonia and Kosovo
• Schedule: Monday-Friday, 3 pm-11 pm CEST (Skopje, Prishtina local time)
• Indefinite contract

Apply today with your English resume to join our community of professionals from Kosovo and Macedonia at top US employers

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