Senior Data Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote - Americas; 100% distributed and remote

Company

hirify.global provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure and developer-friendly APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve core data platform infrastructure, including distributed query engines, orchestration, warehousing, and cataloging.
• Own lakehouse infrastructure as code and manage deployments with Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain low-latency streaming, CDC, and batch ingestion pipelines landing data in Apache Iceberg.
• Develop a performant, self-service BI landscape for downstream teams and AI/agent interfaces.
• Implement reliability practices covering monitoring, alerting, on-call rotations, incident response, maintenance windows, runbooks, and SLAs.
• Partner with DevOps, Analytics Engineering, and other stakeholders to support new data requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, including 2+ years operating scalable, low-latency data platforms handling more than 100 million events per day.
• Hands-on experience running data infrastructure on Kubernetes with Docker and Helm.
• Production experience with Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, open-source query engines such as Trino or Presto, object storage, and Apache Iceberg.
• Experience with Kafka, Redpanda, Debezium, Airflow, Airbyte, Python, SQL, and Google Cloud Platform data services.
• Ability to adapt infrastructure to rapidly changing requirements in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with semantic or metrics layers such as Cube, dbt, or Looker.
• Familiarity with reverse ETL, data catalog and lineage, and data governance tooling, including Hightouch, OpenMetadata, DataHub, or Apache Ranger.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a globally distributed team of more than 400 members.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
• USD $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.