🚀 Senior Data Engineer – Mindera
At Mindera, we build technology products that create meaningful business impact. We work with modern cloud technologies and encourage engineering ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and self-organization.
Our Data Engineering teams build scalable, reliable, and high-performance data platforms that enable analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.
Requirements🧠 What We’re Looking For
Key Responsibilities
- AWS Data Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable data platforms utilizing AWS-native services.
- Data Security & DevSecOps: Embed security guardrails directly into the data lifecycle. Manage encryption, data masking, network security, and secure access controls.
- Pipeline Automation (CI/CD): Build and manage automated pipelines for data infrastructure and code deployments using infrastructure-as-code.
- Orchestration & Governance: Oversee data workflow orchestration and implement real-time security monitoring, logging, and automated compliance auditing.
- R&D and Continuous Learning: Proactively research, prototype, and implement emerging AWS services and open-source data tools to solve complex infrastructure bottlenecks.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in DataOps, DevOps, or Data Engineering roles, with a minimum of 4 years dedicated to the AWS ecosystem.
- Core AWS Stack: Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data and infrastructure services:
- Compute/Infra: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Terraform.
- Data/Analytics: EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, S3, Kinesis.
- AWS Cloud Security: Proficient in securing cloud environments using AWS IAM (least privilege), KMS (encryption at rest/in transit), VPC networking (PrivateLink, Security Groups), Secrets Manager, and AWS GuardDuty/CloudTrail for auditing.
- CI/CD & Containers: Strong experience building secure automated pipelines via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline, alongside Docker and Kubernetes.
- Data Orchestration & Processing: Strong proficiency with orchestration engines (Apache Airflow/MWAA, Step Functions) and modern data tools (dbt).
- Coding & Databases: Advanced programming skills in Python and SQL, with a solid grasp of securing relational and NoSQL databases.
BenefitsWe offer
- Flexible working hours (self-managed)
- Annual bonus, subject to company performance
- Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.
Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude.
We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India
Skills Required
- Strong programming experience in Python, including production-quality modular code, exception handling, logging, testing, and debugging.
- Strong SQL skills with complex joins, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, analytical queries, optimization, and incremental processing.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and PySpark, including architecture, partitioning, shuffle optimization, caching, broadcast joins, data skew, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience developing AWS Glue ETL jobs, including Glue Data Catalog, Crawlers, Spark jobs, DynamicFrames, job bookmarks, schema evolution, and data quality.
- Experience designing and developing Apache Airflow DAGs, including dependencies, scheduling, operators, sensors, retries, backfills, catchup, XCom, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with AWS data services, especially Amazon S3, AWS Glue, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with modern data lake or data warehouse architectures.
- Experience with Parquet and other columnar storage formats.
- Knowledge of data modeling and dimensional modeling.
- Experience with CI/CD and Git-based development workflows.
- Familiarity with Docker and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- Experience working with high-volume and large-scale datasets.
- Understanding of data governance, security, and data quality practices.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Mindera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight health insurance, medical assistance, and wellbeing programs across locations, with the UK explicitly offering private medical including mental‑health, optical, and dental coverage. Country pages position healthcare as a core element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and flexible vacation policies are described as standard, with some locales referencing generous or unlimited PTO. Flexible schedules and remote options further support time away when needed.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexibility, remote/hybrid work, and wellness initiatives (e.g., mental‑health sessions and onsite activities) are emphasized as part of the employee experience. Cultural perks such as team gatherings and trips add lifestyle value.
Mindera Insights
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
