Location: Remote
Work Week: Sunday – Thursday
Work Timings: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Saudi Arabian Time Zone)
Soum is on a mission to revolutionize e-commerce in the MENA region and beyond by building the most convenient and trustworthy re-commerce marketplace in the region. We're reshaping how C2C marketplaces operate, making buying and selling second-hand products seamless and reliable. Since our launch in July 2021, Soum has become one of the fastest-growing startups in the region, achieving rapid expansion in both our team and product offerings. In recognition of our impact and growth, we were proudly named one of the Top 10 LinkedIn Startups in Saudi Arabia for 2024.
Overview
We’re seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data infrastructure that underpins our analytics, ML models, and decision-making processes. You’ll be responsible for building scalable data pipelines, integrating diverse data sources, and ensuring data quality, reliability, and accessibility across the organization. Working closely with data scientists, analysts, and product teams, you’ll enable data-driven insights while optimizing for performance and scalability. This is a great opportunity to have a direct impact on how data is leveraged across a fast-growing company.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to support analytics, ML models, and business reporting.
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to ensure data is available, clean, and optimized for downstream use.
- Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and validation processes.
- Design efficient ETL/ELT workflows and integrate multiple data sources (databases, APIs, third-party tools) into centralized storage (data lakes/warehouses).
- Support cloud-based infrastructure for data storage and retrieval.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize existing pipelines for large-scale, real-time data flows.
- Apply best practices for query optimization and cost-efficient storage.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to gather requirements.
- Document workflows, schemas, and processes while supporting a culture of reliability, governance, and security.
Requirements:
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering tasks.
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and data storage solutions (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.).
- Familiarity with data orchestration tools Airflow, Airbyte is a must.
- Experience with containerization & deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and best practices for handling sensitive data.Familiarity to work with Git and GitHub.
- Dataform is a must
- Strong skills in eliciting requirements from cross-functional stakeholders and translating them into actionable data engineering tasks.
Experience:
- Preferably total 4 years of experience
- 2+ years in data engineering, building and maintaining data pipelines.
- 2+ years of SQL and Python development in production environments.
- Experience working in Fast-growing startup environments is a plus.
- Exposure to real-time data processing frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Flink) is a plus.
Skills Required
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering tasks
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and data modeling
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with data storage solutions such as BigQuery, Redshift, or Snowflake
- Experience with data orchestration tools; Airflow and Airbyte are required
- Experience with Dataform
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and sensitive-data handling best practices
- Familiarity with Git and GitHub
- Strong ability to elicit requirements from cross-functional stakeholders and translate them into data engineering tasks
- At least 2 years of data engineering experience building and maintaining data pipelines
- At least 2 years of SQL and Python development in production environments
- Preferably 4 years of total professional experience
- Experience in fast-growing startup environments
- Experience with containerization and deployment tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Exposure to real-time data processing frameworks such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink
What We Do
At Soum, we're on a mission to build a marketplace that enables users to buy and sell anything online with convenience, trust, and ease starting in the MENA market. We began with second-hand electronics in KSA, becoming market leaders, and are now expanding to used cars and collectibles. In just two years, we've facilitated hundreds of thousands of transactions across 150+ locations in the Kingdom, maintained 10,000 active listings at any given time, earned the distinction of being the 10th most downloaded e-commerce app in KSA for 2023, and received more than 5 million app downloads. Our team, Soumers, have worked in over 14 countries from the US to South Korea. We are always on the look out for the best and brightest to join. We look beyond resumes and titles, we look for the innovators, the hungry, the go-getters. We offer them the autonomy to experiment, learn, fail, and grow. Every transaction on Soum is guaranteed; we hold funds until the item is delivered and confirmed by the buyer, thanks to our proprietary fulfillment and payment systems. This ensures a secure and reliable marketplace experience. Soum has pioneered a solution that have transformed digital commerce for sellers in the wider region: Individuals: Enjoy unique home pick-up and delivery services, secure payments, and transaction guarantees for worry-free selling. Small Businesses: Sell faster and reach a wider audience with our dedicated "Merchant App." Teleco and retail partners: Gain optimal returns with bulk-selling options, comprehensive inspections, and efficient warehouse management. We deploy AI models to power our marketplace with personalized recommendations, dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection, ensuring a smarter, safer, and more efficient platform for our users. Soum is backed by local and regional investors including, amongst others, Jahez Group, Isometry Capital, and Al Rajhi Partners and have raised $22Mn to date.
