The Role
The Staff Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, ensure data quality, mentor junior engineers, and manage data architecture strategies while working closely with product and engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
What We Do
Coda is a global growth engine for commerce. We bring together powerful capabilities that connect people, digital products, and payments through our suite of trusted digital monetization and distribution solutions.
We recently acquired Recharge, Europe’s leading prepaid payments and digital gift card business, bringing both companies together into one organisation with broader reach, deeper capabilities across B2B and B2C commerce and a stronger global footprint.
Today, we stand as a team of more than 600 people, representing 57 nationalities across 23 locations. We are headquartered in Singapore with offices in Amsterdam, Dubai, Shanghai and other hubs across Southeast Asia.
Our B2B business works with publishers and brands to support growth across markets. We run Codapay for local payment acceptance and Custom Commerce for direct-to-consumer webstores. We manage catalogue, prepaid and distribution services that extend reach globally, and we operate Giftcloud’s rewards and incentives capabilities. We take on the operational complexity around payments, tax and compliance so partners can scale with clarity and focus.
On the consumer side, we operate a portfolio of trusted storefronts including Codashop, Recharge.com , Startselect.com , mobiletopup.co.uk and other local sites that give customers secure and easy access to digital credit, game vouchers, gift cards and prepaid products.
Our people are at the heart of what we do. Coda’s culture is centered on respect, clarity, ownership, and collaboration. We work hard and play hard together.
If you’re looking for growth and impact in a fast-paced global team, Coda is the place for you.
The Role
We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our innovative Data Platform team, a core component of Recharge’s ambitious goals. In this role, you’ll be integral to designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines that fuel decision-making across the business. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is accessible, reliable, and impactful. You will work alongside other 3 Senior Data Engineers and join the leadership of the Data Platform along with the Engineering Manager and Senior Product Manager.If you thrive in environments where you can shape and scale data solutions that serve millions globally, we want to hear from you.
What Will I do?
- Design and implement robust data pipelines and the underlying platform to support both batch and real-time data processing, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Act as strategic partner for stakeholders and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to deliver high-quality data products and identify opportunities to enhance business strategies
- Set technical standards and best practices for data engineering, data quality, and data governance
- Guide and mentor data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning
- Lead the designing and implementing Recharge’s data architecture, policies, and processes.
- Work closely with the Senior Product Manager to develop the roadmap, proactively proposing innovative data solutions aligning with business objectives.
- Own end-to-end data workflows, from ingestion through transformation to delivery, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.
- Develop monitoring and alerting mechanisms to detect and resolve issues within the data infrastructure proactively.
- Work with cloud services, particularly AWS, to build, manage, and optimise data lakes and warehouses.
What You Have
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, building data pipelines, and managing ETL workflows at scale.
- A solid understanding of concepts such as data management, data governance, metadata collection and management, and data as a product.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to translate complex technical subjects for stakeholders
- Experience with data observability, data quality management, and monitoring tools and best practices to ensure data reliability (we use Datadog)
- Proven expertise in designing, building, and managing data lakes, data warehouses, and other data infrastructure solutions with or without using SaaS applications.
- A self-starter with strong problem-solving skills, continually seeking ways to optimise and innovate in data engineering processes.
- Solid understanding of cloud environments, especially AWS, focusing on services like Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, S3, and AWS Step Functions.
- Knowledge or experience with SaaS tools such as Airflow, Airbyte, Fivetran, dbt, Sifflet, Spark/PySpark or similar tools.
- Strong hands-on experience with data processing frameworks and languages like SQL and Python.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
- Experience with defining/maintaining CI/CD for data pipelines, including automated testing, environment provisioning and other best practices. We rely on GitHub Actions and Terraform.
- Ability to operate responsibly in alignment with the industry's best practices and team conventions. The ability to drive initiatives toward completion and deliver working solutions is a must-have.
What We Offer
- 30 days of holiday, a great pension scheme, and one of the best relocation packages in Amsterdam
- Flexible working hours and an office overlooking the Amstel
- Macbook Pro or Windows Laptop
- Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, travel to and from the office, opportunities to work-from-home and self-learning
- Free healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks by our in-house chef
- Unlimited access to mental health support by certified psychologists via OpenUp
- Free Dutch classes to help out with daily life in the Netherlands
- Regular parties, celebrations, and other events.
The process
1. Apply: Want in? Let us know! Apply for a role and help us get to know your best self.
2. Video interview: One of our recruiters will get in touch to help you both understand if Recharge is the right next move for you.
3. Technical Interview: Our Data Engineers will present you with a technical challenge and have a chat with you to understand your knowledge and how it can contribute to our team.
4. Ways of working: The Hiring Manager will conduct a situational interview to gain insight into your work approach and problem-solving methods.
5. Final Interview: The CPTO will have an open discussion about your motivations, ambitions and general experience about working with technology and product teams.
6. Offer: You did it! There are only a few tickets available, and this one has your name on it. Welcome to the team.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, embracing the unique qualities of every individual, regardless of gender, race, age, religion, disability, or other local protected classes. Our goal is to foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome and valued.
Due to the large number of exceptional applications we receive, we can only reach out to shortlisted candidates. If you don't hear from us, rest assured there may be another opportunity at Coda that aligns better with your unique abilities. Remember to check our Careers Page for more exciting job openings!
Top Skills
Airbyte
Airflow
AWS
Datadog
Dbt
Fivetran
Github Actions
Pyspark
Python
Sifflet
Spark
SQL
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Coda leads in commerce solutions and out-of-app monetization. Since 2011, we’ve accelerated growth for our partners by expanding their global reach and deepening customer engagement. Trusted by over 300 publishers—including Activision, Electronic Arts, Moonton, and Riot Games—we maximize revenue with solutions like Custom Commerce, Codapay, Codashop, and Distribution. By connecting our partners to more than 90% of the world's preferred payment methods, we unlock access to over 200M paying customers worldwide. Headquartered in Singapore with a team of 400+, Coda has earned recognition as a 2023 APAC High Growth Company by the Financial Times, one of Granite Asia’s NextGenTech 30 (2024), a payments leader in Fortune’s Fintech Innovation Asia list (2024), and featured in The Straits Times Fastest Growing Fintechs (2024)
