Data Engineer

Job Purpose and Overview

Appfire is seeking a full-time Data Engineer! 

In this critical role, you will help build and evolve our company-wide data assets from a very early stage. Leveraging your python and SQL skills, data warehousing experience, and your background setting up robust infrastructure, you will help develop technologies, solutions, and data pipelines to achieve a unified and efficient ecosystem for Appfire’s decisions and capabilities. We’re growing quickly and have a lot to accomplish.

You will be part of a central data insights team providing a variety of data and analytics services to support company-wide initiatives, allowing ample opportunity to gain valuable experience into the company decision-making as a whole, broaden your technical and business skills, and grow your career.

What You Will Do

• Create and maintain key infrastructure supporting decisions across Appfire
• Advocate for and implement best practices surrounding our development process, including automation, testing, and CI/CD
• Contribute to the development of RAG models and infrastructure
• Develop and deploy monitoring solutions and governance strategies to ensure that the right data is available on time and to the correct audience
• Build strategic relationships with business, analytics, and engineering teams to build robust and scalable solutions to complex problems involving Appfire’s central data assets
• Work closely with both internal and external partners to stand up new data delivery solutions (APIs, services, webhooks, etc.)
• Be a key driver to the evolution of our data lake/warehouse (AWS/Snowflake)
• Be a subject matter expert on our data, tech stack, tools, and data infrastructure
• Drive UAT efforts with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet their business requirements
• Help carry out proof of concepts for new tools and/or processes
• Write and leverage knowledge base articles to document procedures and reports
• Stay on the forefront of the rapidly evolving Data landscape to ensure the team leverages best-in-class technologies and methodologies, allowing us to scale quickly and securely 

What We Would Like to See

• 3+ years’ experience in a data / software engineering role with a solid understanding of modern data warehousing and software development approaches and best practices
• 3+ years’ experience with Python
• 3+ years’ experience building products, solutions, and tools to provide data to company-wide systems and use cases
• 3+ years’ experience in ETL development and SQL optimization
• 1+ years’ experience of API, services, and/or application development
• 1+ years’ experience automating cloud infrastructure, eg Terraform
• 1+ years’ experience implementing CI/CD
• 1+ years’ experience developing RAG models and infrastructure
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Strong personal organization skills and ability to multitask
• Ability to work with minimal supervision on 3-5 concurrent projects
• Cloud Infrastructure/Orchestration/Docker experience required
• AWS/Airflow/Terraform experience preferred
• Snowflake/DBT experience preferred
• RAG model and infrastructure experience preferred

What We Offer

Financial benefits

• Every Appfire employee is eligible for company equity.
• Work from-home allowance: 50€ gross per month for 11 months a year (i.e. Excluding Holidays).

Skills development benefits

• Access to the Appfire University learning platform – a hub of knowledge, interactive resources, and engaging instructor-led courses designed to fuel your learning journey with unparalleled depth and accessibility.

PTO, health & well-being

• 25 working days of paid annual leave.
• Reduced summer hours: From July 1st until the end of August, we work 6 hours daily.
• Flexible bank holiday policy, which allows you to exchange a government-set public holiday for a more convenient time off.
• Private healthcare insurance.
• Annual sport allowance.

Volunteering

• • 3 fully paid days each year to participate in Appfire Town, Appfire’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program.

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