Senior Data Engineer

This is a remote contract opportunity for those based in Poland.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Nearform your main task will be designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms, pipelines, and warehouses using SQL, Python, Spark, Databricks and other relevant technologies. You will play a key role in building efficient data solutions, optimizing performance, and ensuring seamless data integration. However as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects your responsibilities may also include:

• Designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Developing and maintaining data platforms and warehousing solutions to support analytics and business intelligence needs.
• Implementing scalable data storage solutions and ensuring high availability and performance.
• Enhancing performance in data processing workflows for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data engineering solutions.
• Ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance across all systems.
• Supporting CI/CD processes for data pipeline deployments and implementing best practices in DevOps for data workflows.
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing best practices in version control, automation, and testing.
• Assisting with defining structured source code management and deployment processes.
• Working with and supporting Technical Leaders in project execution and timely delivery.
• Collaborating with client teams.

• Significant experience delivering at a Senior Engineer level, specialising in Data engineering. Our Seniors typically have at least 6 years’ commercial experience.
• Experience with Python, Data Processing / Relational Database Design, AWS (ECS, Aurora, ElastiCache), Terraform/Terragrunt fundamentals
• Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment.
• Practical experience and knowledge of developing real-world solutions.
• Experience building software collaboratively using pull requests and code reviews.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Talent Call (30 mins via Zoom)
  An introductory conversation with a member of our Talent Team to learn more about your background, experience, and career goals. We'll also provide a high-level overview of Nearform and answer any questions you may have. This step helps us assess initial alignment.

• Technical Assessment (1 hour via Zoom)
  A live coding challenge with one of our trained interviewers. You'll be asked to build a working solution to a problem via screen sharing, demonstrating your expertise, problem-solving ability, and coding best practices in a real-time environment.

• Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins via Zoom)
  A conversation with a Hiring Manager focused on your approach to teamwork, client collaboration, and problem-solving in an enterprise development setting. We'll also share more details about Nearform and the potential projects you may join.

There may also be an additional interview with the client depending on the project

If you're passionate about building high-quality applications, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation in enterprise development, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now via our careers page at Nearform and be part of a team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence. 

If you require any adjustments to the interview process as part of your application, please let someone from our Talent Team know so they can help.