Senior Data Engineer

About Thunes

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies.

Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.

Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally.

Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.

Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.

For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/

Context of the role

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain the critical warehouse infrastructure that supports our team in making smart business decisions. This senior level role reports to the Director, Engineering and establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables. These projects include conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan, and data security policy.

You will be responsible for data infrastructure decisions and architecture proposals and lead the daily development of data products and reports that serve the internal and external clients of the organization.

This role in based in Atlanta.

What We'll Offer You

The stability of an established company with new startup momentum. An unparalleled opportunity to create relationships, systems, strategy and culture. An environment where your voice will be heard and your impact deeply felt. A sense of belonging where your work is appreciated and rewarded.

As a team, we are highly engaged and iterative in nature, in both our product and our processes. We build cool stuff, we weigh risk/reward, and when we make mistakes, we respond quickly together and without blame. This is a team in the truest sense.

What We'll Create Together

• Operational excellence and to extend a world class data lake/warehouse in GCP BigQuery
• A seamless process to extract, transform, and load production data into the data warehouse using AirFlow
• A partnership with Producers and Analysts to develop data that supports key metrics and reports for business development for us and our publishers
• An adaptive environment to respond an ever changing production environment, rapidly updating to provide a consistent, accurate view of our data
• A strong working relationships with Directors and CTO on key projects

What You'll Bring to the Team

At Thunes, we celebrate all the dimensions of diversity, including diversity of experience. We recognize that candidates applying for this role will be most successful if they bring the following with them:

• 8+ years as a professional Software Engineer; 6+ years relevant Data Engineering experience
• Deep technical understanding of SQL and relational concepts
• Extensive experience optimizing SQL queries and developing indexes for performance
• Strong software development experience, including testing, preferably with Python
• Expertise working with data in the cloud: AWS, GCP preferred
• Experience developing DAG-based ETL jobs, preferably using AirFlow
• Experience working with version control systems, such as Git
• Experience with AWS Data Migration Service a plus
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment
• Strong record of excellent communication, problem solving, and attention to detail

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply anyway. The confidence gap and imposter syndrome can sometimes get in the way of meeting incredible candidates and we don't want it to get in the way of meeting you. We encourage you to reach out if you have belief in our mission and your own ability to contribute to our team!