Payrails

Senior Data Engineer

Payrails

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cairo • Egypt

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowApacheBigQueryDockerKafkaKubernetesPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Work alongside a talented team of analysts, data scientists and engineers to build data products and services that meet business requirements.
  • Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable and observable batch and real-time data pipelines.
  • Architect, build and maintain the data infrastructure at Payrails.
  • Advocate for and implement data governance and security best practices.
  • Contribute to tooling that improves data quality, CI/CD workflows, and data observability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design optimal solutions.

Requirements

  • You have extensive experience in data engineering roles building reliable, scalable and observable production-grade data pipelines and services.
  • You have strong proficiency in Python. Experience with GoLang is a plus.
  • You are proficient in SQL, data modelling and operating common OLTP (e.g. PostgresSQL) and OLAP databases (e.g. Snowflake, Bigquery) at scale.
  • You develop and maintain data pipelines using workflow management platforms such as Apache Airflow.
  • You are knowledgeable of containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
  • You communicate effectively and are proficient in English.
  • You work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience with real-time streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) and distributed stream processing technologies (e.g. Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Kafka Streams) is an advantage.
  • Familiarity working with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) is preferred.
  • FinTech or payments domain experience is a plus.
Benefits
  • High impact and high velocity environment with the most talented and ambitious people you will ever work with
  • A chance to shape the story of a company and a category from the ground up
  • Real ownership. You’ll have the freedom and trust to build, test, and take lead
  • A product used by the best brands around the world
  • Hybrid working with an office in the heart of New Cairo
  • Regular team events, activities and off-sites
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • 27 days of annual paid vacation
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata pipelinesPythonGoLangSQLdata modellingOLTPOLAPApache Airflowreal-time streaming
Soft Skills
effective communicationindependencecollaborationfast-paced environment