Kendago is on a mission to redefine how consumers go from noticing a need to buying the right solution online. In an internet shaped by AI, fragmented attention, and constantly shifting platforms, we build, own, and scale top-performing brands and offers - both our own and those of leading partners — by combining proprietary technology, data-driven decision making, and creative excellence at performance scale.
We operate at consumer scale, reaching millions of people every day across paid channels, owned funnels, and digital touchpoints. In a world where creative trends, consumer behavior, and platform algorithms shift overnight, Kendago stays ahead of the curve.
We move fast, think deeply, and build with purpose. Our culture is rooted in entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration - along with shared wins, team dinners, and a whole lot of good food and laughter.
We’re a team of doers, and boundary-breakers - product, data, R&D, growth, and creative talent who own the full stack of how consumer brands are built and scaled today. After 17 years in the game, every funnel, every test, every brand decision happens in-house - which means your work moves the needle directly and visibly. If you’re ready to tackle meaningful challenges, grow at lightning speed, and help shape the next frontier of consumer brand building, you belong here.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong Python expertise and extensive experience building large-scale, distributed data systems.
You will play a key role in developing our next-generation data platform, building integrations with external data sources, and designing the services and pipelines that collect, process, and serve large volumes of data across our product.
You will own systems throughout their full lifecycle — from system design and hands-on development to deployment, scalability, and production monitoring — while contributing to technical decisions and working closely with the team on building reliable, high-performance data solutions.
Our Office is located in Kiryat Ono.This is a hybrid position, including two work-from-home days per week, with flexibility .
Requirements- 5+ years of professional software/data engineering experience, with strong hands-on Python proficiency.
- Proven experience building and maintaining large-scale, data-intensive systems in production.
- Strong SQL skills, including working with large and complex datasets, query optimization, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing data pipelines and services that process data asynchronously or in batches.
- Solid understanding of distributed-system fundamentals, including failure handling, retries, idempotency, concurrency, and eventual consistency.
- Experience contributing to system design and technical decisions around scalable, reliable data systems.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating with third-party systems. Experience with FastAPI, Django, Flask, or similar frameworks is an advantage.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and complex data flows.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership, make sound engineering decisions, and collaborate effectively within a small, highly technical team.
Advantage
- Experience working in FinTech, E-commerce, AdTech, or other high-scale data environments.
- Experience working with high-volume data processing and distributed data infrastructure.
Nice to Have-
- Experience with Amazon Redshift or another analytical data warehouse.
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting production systems
- Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines and implementing data-quality checks.
- Experience with queues, schedulers, or workflow orchestration tools.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code and cloud infrastructure management.
- Experience with high-volume data ingestion, analytics platforms, marketing technology, or campaign-management systems.
- Build and improve data-collection and processing workflows, including scheduled, asynchronous, and long-running workloads.
- Develop reliable integrations with external APIs, platforms, and data providers.
- Design, build, and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI.
- Contribute to our new platform and capabilities such as algorithm execution and data collection orchestration.
- Design efficient data models and queries for operational databases and analytical systems such as Amazon Redshift.
- Handle real-world integration challenges including rate limits, retries, partial failures, idempotency, and changing external schemas.
- Improve the performance, scalability, observability, and reliability of existing services.
- Own features end to end: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.
- Collaborate with product and engineering colleagues to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
Skills Required
- 5+ years professional backend development experience with strong Python proficiency.
- Hands-on experience building production APIs and services with FastAPI, Django, Flask, or comparable frameworks.
- Strong SQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and working with large or complex datasets.
- Experience designing reliable backend systems that process data asynchronously or in batches.
- Solid understanding of distributed-system fundamentals (failure handling, retries, idempotency, concurrency, eventual consistency).
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating with third-party systems.
- Practical experience operating services in AWS or a comparable cloud environment.
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting production systems.
- Comfortable working with data pipelines and taking services through the full lifecycle (design, implementation, production monitoring).
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and complex data flows.
- Ability to work independently, make sound engineering decisions, and collaborate with a small team.
- Experience with Amazon Redshift or another analytical data warehouse.
- Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines and implementing data-quality checks.
- Experience with queues, schedulers, or workflow orchestration tools.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code and cloud infrastructure management.
- Experience with high-volume data ingestion, analytics platforms, marketing technology, or campaign-management systems.
What We Do
We are Kendago, a top, global digital marketing group. We develop and grow direct to consumer brands using paid media and direct response marketing. Our history begins with two bright, Israeli, IDF-trained, tech-engineers, experts in data analysis, business intelligence and computer engineering. Leveraging their knowledge and expertise, they became globally-recognized digital marketing experts, working closely with leading vendors and with Google. During recent years, they rapidly expanded and recruited over 100 of Israel's brightest data-driven engineers, tech-wizards and award-winning creative experts from McKann, BBDO and Grey to develop Kendago - a global, DTC Digital Marketing Group. Our team works with a unique direct response formula developed in-house, backed by expertise in compliance and an advanced AdTech system that accelerates optimization and revenue-growth. Today we are driven by both entrepreneurship and innovation, committed to be the best in everything it does, which is mandatory in order to achieve long-term success and growth. Our mission is to continue our incredible growth as a DTC powerhouse by delivering an unparalleled combination of creative expertise and campaign management for the our top direct-to-consumer brands
