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Staff Engineer — Data Platform

London🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Designing and building large-scale, reliable data platforms for real-time payment transaction processing and analytics.

Role type

Staff Individual Contributor Data Platform Engineer

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, data models, and platform infrastructure for payment analytics and fraud detection.

Domain

Fintech / Payments / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale data platform architecture, real-time streaming processing, data modeling, cloud infrastructure, data quality & observability, technical leadership, Python, SQL

Preferred skills

Payments/fintech domain experience, dbt, event-driven services, ML platform design

Technologies

StarRocks, Flink, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, dbt, AWS/GCP/Azure

Responsibilities

Define architecture and lead end-to-end delivery of data platform initiatives; Design and build performant, reliable data pipelines for high-volume payment data; Act as technical reference point for standards, testing, and documentation; Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; Partner with Product, AI, and Finance teams to translate business needs into data solutions.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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