Lead Data Engineer (Partner Company Role)

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Portugal
Remote
Senior level
eCommerce • Fintech • Payments
The Role
Lead hands-on data engineering: design Postgres CDC -> Kafka -> Snowflake pipelines, own ingestion/orchestration/transformation/quality tooling, implement CDC ingestion, build streaming near-real-time pipelines and data quality controls, define data contracts and tenant separation, deliver external client-facing data products, and grow a small data engineering team.
Summary Generated by Built In
We're looking for the right person to build that foundation from the ground up.
This is a hands-on leadership role with real ownership: you'll shape how data is collected, structured, and delivered — and grow a team around you as the function matures.

 WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON
  • Design the target-state data architecture: Postgres CDC → Kafka → Snowflake → client-facing data products.
  • Own tooling decisions across ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and quality layers.
  • Implement CDC-based ingestion from PostgreSQL services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, K8s operator) using Debezium or equivalent.
  • Build streaming and near-real-time pipelines with defined SLAs.
  • Build a data quality control layer: checksums, reconciliation, schema validation, anomaly detection, and alerting.
  • Define quality checkpoints across the full pipeline — from source capture through Snowflake to client delivery.
  • Define and enforce data contracts with service-owning teams for core entities: transaction, merchant, settlement, and processing status.
  • Build the external data delivery layer: financial settlement, transaction status, processor reconciliation, and client analytics.
  • Design tenant separation and implement replay/reload mechanisms for failure recovery.
  • Start hands-on, then gradually hire and grow a small data engineering team as the function matures.
    Build a pragmatic roadmap with concrete deliverables at 3, 6, and 12 months.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE
  • 5+ years in data engineering with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines.
  • Hands-on with Snowflake, PostgreSQL CDC (Debezium preferred), and Kafka.
  • Solid AWS experience — S3, RDS, Aurora, and cloud data infrastructure.
  • Data quality engineering mindset: monitoring, reconciliation, lineage.
  • Comfortable defining data contracts and driving requirements with backend engineering teams.
  • Technical leadership experience: project ownership, cross-team alignment, delivery under constraints.
  • Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster, and dbt are strong pluses.
  • Payments domain knowledge — settlement, transaction lifecycle, processor integrations — is a strong plus.
  • Familiarity with gRPC, RabbitMQ, and reading Go/Python service code is expected.
  • English language skills at the B2 level and fluent russian language. 
     

WHAT WE OFFER 

  • An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
  • Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us
  • Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
  • Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
  • Remote work
  • 20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; sick leaves; additional birthday day off

 

Skills Required

  • 5+ years in data engineering with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines
  • Hands-on with Snowflake
  • PostgreSQL CDC experience
  • Debezium experience
  • Kafka experience
  • AWS experience (S3, RDS, Aurora, EC2)
  • Data quality engineering (monitoring, reconciliation, lineage)
  • Ability to define data contracts and drive requirements with backend teams
  • Technical leadership experience (project ownership, cross-team alignment, delivery)
  • Kubernetes
  • Airflow or Prefect or Dagster
  • dbt
  • Payments domain knowledge (settlement, transaction lifecycle, processor integrations)
  • Familiarity with gRPC and RabbitMQ
  • Ability to read Go and Python service code
  • English (B2) and fluent Russian
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The Company
Riga
83 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

FYST [faist] is a one-stop tech, payments and technology consultancy for eCommerce and FinTech businesses. It empowers entrepreneurs with a unique mix of agile technical payments capabilities, payment technologies guidance, regulatory compliance, and AML advisory services from its team of payment and banking industry leaders. Focused on technological excellence FYST offers clients a full scope of integration and software advisory, complemented by in-house payment gateways development. Designed to help businesses navigate the fast-growing cross-border eCommerce market, FYST brings together leading fintech innovators under one brand, combining unparalleled technical ingenuity, and tailored advice to help fledgling businesses successfully scale up, and receive access to more than 70 global payment methods via the network of partners.

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