Senior Data Engineer at CarePay Ltd

As a Senior Data Engineer, your main task is to preserve the foundations of the Data team, that is extracting the value of all the data we collect at Carepay for the benefit of our members in low-income countries. You will also guide and coach fellow team members, you will help them grow, and you will maximize their impact. You will be working on infrastructure that is already set-up and continuously improving with technologies such as: AWS, Singer, Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, and Metabase, and with them we invite you to change the vicious cycle of problems in healthcare.

CarePay is looking to hire a senior data engineer for our Nairobi and Amsterdam teams.

Main purpose of the job

What you’ll do

• Set up ELT pipelines and productionize machine learning algorithms
• You have experience with Data Warehousing, Airflow, AWS, Kafka and dbt
• Security and GDPR are always part of your development cycle
• Ownership of data quality in our datasets and data pipelines
• Maintaining and improving our self-service data platform
• Bring in your ideas and connect millions of people together
• Be part of a multidisciplinary team including backend engineers, analytics engineers, cloud engineers, business analysts, data scientists and business owners
• Continuously increase the scalability and maintainability of our architecture
• Streamline our CI/CD pipelines with automated tests
• Maintain and direct the team’s effectiveness and coach your peers
• Be a pioneer and introduce new technologies: we’re always open to change!

Technologies we use

• The latest versions of Java and Python
• AWS, Kubenetes, Terraform, Helm Charts
• Snowflake, Airflow, Singer, dbt, Metabase, Retool
• Bitbucket Pipelines

‍About you

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent - or relevant experience
• At least 5+ years of data engineer and/or software development experience
• Experience with SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, DBT, Airflow and Kafka
• Security and GDPR are always part of your development cycle
• Have a cloud native mindset
• Experience with GitHub or Bitbucket
• Experience with Agile and Scrum frameworks
• Experience setting up CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Fluency in English (Dutch is not required)