Mindera is seeking a Lead Data Engineer with deep hands-on expertise and strong leadership capabilities to design, build, and scale modern data platforms. This role requires a technical leader who codes daily, mentors teams, and collaborates closely with US (Pacific Time) and UK stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working in US PT overlap hours, can independently drive technical decisions, and has a strong background in Databricks, PySpark, and SQL on cloud platforms.
RequirementsRequired Skills & QualificationsMandatory Technical Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related roles
- Strong, hands-on experience with Databricks in production environments
- Advanced proficiency in PySpark
- Excellent SQL skills (query optimization, complex joins, CTEs, window functions)
- Experience with any major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and analytics patterns
- Experience leading production-grade data pipelines
- Proven experience as a Lead Data Engineer / Technical Lead
- Ability to balance team leadership with individual contribution
- Strong ownership mindset with excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience working with global teams across time zones
- Mandatory availability to support meetings and calls in US Pacific Time (PT)
- Experience with Delta Lake and Lakehouse architecture
- Streaming technologies (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming)
- CI/CD pipelines for data platforms
- Data governance, lineage, and security best practices
- Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams
BenefitsWhat We Offer
- Opportunity to work on modern cloud data platforms
- Challenging, high-impact data projects
- Collaborative and engineering-driven culture
Top Skills
What We Do
At Mindera we craft software with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world
Our offices are located in: Portugal | UK | USA | India | Romania | Brazil
