Senior Data Engineer (Apache Airflow)

Location: Remote from Armenia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, LATAM, Romania, Serbia, or Ukraine

Company

hirify.global is a global software engineering company delivering data, analytics, and AI solutions for clients across healthcare and other industries.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and operation of production data pipelines.
• Modernize a large Apache Airflow environment and develop reusable DAGs, libraries, and engineering standards.
• Build workflows for data processing, quality checks, provider updates, and data publishing.
• Develop data-quality frameworks, data contracts, source-of-truth rules, monitoring, anomaly detection, and alerting.
• Maintain and optimize Spark-based ETL jobs running on AWS EMR, S3, and Elasticsearch.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and data teams on architecture, releases, technical planning, and production troubleshooting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software or data engineering experience with production data systems.
• Strong Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, AWS, and production data pipeline experience.
• Experience with Apache Spark or similar distributed processing frameworks, large datasets, Parquet, and data lakes.
• Experience with data validation, reconciliation, monitoring, software design, testing, Git, CI/CD, and production releases.
• Ability to balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, delivery speed, and cost while working independently.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Healthcare or provider data experience, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, Scala or Groovy, and BigQuery.
• Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, data observability, lineage, or data contracts.
• Selenium, browser automation, web data collection, or integrations with Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Slack, or Teams.
• pytest, Ruff, mypy, or experience with HIPAA and other compliance-sensitive environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote, hybrid, and office work formats are available according to the role's location and contract conditions.
• Vacation, sick pay, health insurance support, and time off for state holidays are provided according to regional conditions.
• IT certification costs, professional courses, mentoring, and learning platforms are available.
• Corporate events, technical and everyday workplace support, mental health programs, and flexible development opportunities are offered.

Hiring process

• CV review followed by an HR interview.
• Communication and technical assessments, including evaluation of English and relevant technologies.
• Meeting with the project team and possible client interview preparation.