Senior 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.

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. The operations team moves data from about 30 source systems into Snowflake. You'll own ingestion, modelling and data quality checks. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Colombia. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Main duties:

• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers.
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR.
• Design table layouts and partitioning for Parquet, Delta Lake or Iceberg.
• Handle PII according to retention, masking and access policies.
• Work with analysts to define metrics and fix discrepancies between reports.
• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed.

Minimum qualifications:

• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP or Azure data services.
• Strong Python for data processing.
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.

Compensation and benefits:

Rate: COP 9,300,000-COP 10,500,000 per month

• Private health insurance.
• Home office equipment.
• Meal vouchers.
• Payment in USD.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible hours.
• 13th-month bonus.

Start: Immediately.

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