Junior Data Engineer

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Paisa Apps is a 4-person software shop in Bogotá. The founders still answer support tickets.

Role overview

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. You can work from home anywhere in Colombia. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Job duties

• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies.
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed.
• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan.

What you'll need

• 1+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning.
• Patience with messy source data and the habit of documenting assumptions.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in finance or marketing data.
• Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming.

What we offer

Compensation: COP 5,600,000 - COP 6,600,000/month

• Private health insurance.
• 13th-month bonus.
• Training budget.
• Payment in USD.
• Gym membership.
• Home office equipment.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Colombia.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Paisa Apps S.A.S..