Senior Data Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Kathmandu, Bagmati Province and two nearshore delivery centres. Karmacharya Software employs 830 people across engineering hubs in Kathmandu and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are adding a Senior Data Engineer to our Analytics team. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. You can work from home anywhere in Nepal. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg
• Tune slow queries and expensive jobs
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers
• Ingest data from APIs, SaaS tools and databases with Fivetran, Airbyte or custom Python
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services
• Strong Python for data processing
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow

NICE TO HAVE:

• Terraform for data infrastructure
• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census
• Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming
• Background in finance or marketing data

Compensation: NPR 125,000-NPR 155,000 per month

PERKS AND BENEFITS:

• Medical insurance
• Paid leave
• Internet allowance

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Karmacharya Software.