Data Engineer

Cherry Installments is a FinTech company making it quick and simple for direct-to-consumer businesses to grow their sales by offering installments as a payment option.

We know that every sale counts. We believe everyone should have the tools to win every sale. We hire the world’s best and brightest people to make this future a reality.

Cherry is backed by an all-star lineup of investors such as DCM and early Tesla board member and eBay Motors Founder Simon Rothman. Cherry was founded and is led by Stanford entrepreneurs with years of experience in Technology, Sales and Finance.

We are looking for an awesome Data Engineer to join our Cherry Engineering Team which is a growing Istanbul-based team! As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for projects that enhance the availability and usability of high quality data throughout the company.

If you have outstanding skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative applications, then you will love this job. 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data-driven internal stakeholders, such as risk team, product managers, finance) to identify opportunities for better data access and usage
• Design and build modern data pipelines
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the data warehouse ecosystem
• Design and develop APIs to serve the analytics needs
• Design and build dashboards for product teams

Qualifications & Experience

• BSc/MSc/PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience in one or more general purpose object oriented programming languages including Java, Python
• Proficiency with OOP concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed system and UNIX/Linux environments
• Good understanding of fundamental design principles for a scalable application
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, key-value stores and search engines (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch etc.)
• Familiarity with workflow management frameworks (Airflow, Prefect etc.)
• Proficiency in code versioning tools such as Git
• Strong sense of analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Highly Effective time management and multitasking skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to think proactively and having a result oriented approach
• Excellent SQL skills with experience building tables in a production environment
• Demonstrated strength in ETL development and building data pipelines

Nice to Have

• Proficiency with Java and Spring Framework (Boot, MVC, Data, Cloud, Security etc)
• Experience with Service-oriented architecture, microservices and REST APIs
• Experience with architecting, designing and implementing large scale systems
• Experience with distributed systems and concurrent programming
• Experience with complex data pipelines.
• Experience in implementing data quality and sanity steps.
• Scripting skills e.g. Python, shell, etc.
• Working knowledge with Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud Platform and/or any other cloud computing service provider
• Experience or willingness to learn payment processing technologies
• Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies
• Contributions to OpenSource projects
• Experience in using Fivetran/Snowflake
• Experience in using Metabase

We are a growing team based between San Francisco and Istanbul. You will be joining a founding team of passionate, entrepreneurial, collaborative and all around fun human beings. Our Istanbul office is located in Fenerbahçe on a quiet street next to the some of the best coffee the city has to offer.

This position is full-time and based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cherry provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.