Senior Data Engineer (Contractor) (Fintech)

Location: Remote role associated with Bucharest, Romania

Company

hirify.global provides payment solutions, multicurrency accounts, and e-commerce tools that help businesses accept and manage payments.

What you will do

• Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and export across multiple sources and destinations.
• Design and evolve scalable data architecture for business and performance requirements.
• Deliver curated, analysis-ready datasets with analysts and data scientists to enable self-service analytics.
• Implement data quality, testing, monitoring, lineage, reliability, access control, auditability, and governance practices.
• Optimize Spark jobs, queries, partitioning strategies, workflow performance, cost, and scalability.
• Build and maintain MLOps automation, including CI/CD, environment management, artifact handling, and versioning of data, models, and code.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer building and maintaining production-grade pipelines and datasets.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with knowledge of data structures, performance, and optimization.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Databricks Workflows and distributed processing in a cloud environment.
• Experience with analytical data modeling, data warehouses, ETL/ELT patterns, dimensional concepts, and incremental ingestion from databases and APIs.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Terraform, DataOps, troubleshooting across infrastructure and deployments, and cross-functional communication.

Nice to have

• Strong GCP ecosystem experience, including BigQuery, Composer, Dataproc, Cloud Run, Dataplex, and Cloud Storage.
• Experience with data governance, observability, metrics, alerting, data quality checks, and incident response.
• Knowledge of model monitoring, including drift, data quality, performance degradation, bias checks, and alerting strategies.

Culture & Benefits

• International team working in a high-tech environment.
• Compensation package.
• Access to hirify.global Academy and LinkedIn Learning courses.
• Referral bonus, teambuilding, and multinational social activities.

Hiring process

• Submit an application form and CV in English.
• Applications are reviewed confidentially in line with GDPR; only shortlisted candidates are contacted.