Data Engineer – Senior

Location: Remote from Georgia, Poland, or Serbia; role locations include Tbilisi, Warsaw, and Poznań.

Company

hirify.global develops data infrastructure and products that support enterprise-scale analytics and insights across the company.

What you will do

• Build robust, self-service data products using Apache Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, and other big data technologies.
• Design scalable architectures that improve pipeline performance and data quality.
• Refine data solutions as business requirements and technical constraints evolve.
• Research, develop, and integrate data-processing tools and technologies.
• Collaborate with internal teams to understand data needs and support adoption of data products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including development, deployment, and integration.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language: Scala, Java, Python, or equivalent.
• Experience with data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, data transformation, and large data volumes.
• Experience building ETL pipelines for feature engineering on large-scale datasets with Apache Spark and Delta Lake.
• Experience sourcing and modelling data from application APIs.
• Experience building stream-processing applications with Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience designing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for data pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or equivalent tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Upper-intermediate English and strong command of Russian required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, containerization, cloud platforms, CDC, Debezium, ClickHouse, data quality frameworks, or data lineage.
• Experience with NoSQL datastores, relational databases, and search systems, including HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or Solr.
• Master’s degree, PhD, or equivalent experience in Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science.

Culture & Benefits

• Private health insurance, sports benefits, and a comprehensive mental health program.
• Paid time off and maternity leave support.
• Free online English lessons and local language courses.
• Upskilling, internal workshops, professional conferences, and corporate events.
• Referral program rewards.
• Recruitment communication is conducted only through official hirify.global channels; candidates are never asked to make payments, purchase equipment, share financial details, or transfer money.