Data and Operations Engineer Staff Principal Lead

Data and Operations Engineer Staff Principal Lead

Compensation 300k to 380k No equity

Location San Francisco

Remote work policy In office

Job type Full Time

Visa sponsorship Not Available

Relocation Allowed

Experience 5 plus years

Skills Required

Python

The Client is building a global consumer neobank. We are merging banking payments and crypto into a single product. Our initial focus is emerging markets where traditional banking and local currencies fail hundreds of millions of people. We will enable users all over the world to move their money seamlessly within our ecosystem.

The Client company is built by a small group of highly experienced operators and engineers. We are a small senior only team with no layers politics or slow decisions. We have built founded and owned services used by hundreds of millions of people and generating billions in revenue. Our Client is the next step and mass distribution is readily available via our day one partners. Every person on the team ships product and shapes the direction of the company.

As a founding Data and Operations Engineer on our small senior only team you will be defining and working on the core systems and workflows that feed data across our internal architecture and beyond. Your architecture and processes will ultimately

Allow your fellow engineers to aggregate critical product data and platform telemetry into a unified analytics platform

Enable our FinOps team to ensure consistent reliable ledgers across a number of financial partners and accounts

Empower our Fraud AML Anti Money Laundering team to build high quality risk models and workflows by shipping clean understandable data models into our internal decisioning platform

With our day one distribution partners team of highly experienced operators and engineers and solid financial backing we are excited to launch and looking for more like minded engineers to bring to the world

What You Will Do

Use your expert knowledge in Terraform dbt and AWS products to ensure data and applications alike are built on a solid robust foundation

Define safe and secure Least Access patterns that allow man and machine alike to get the data they need when they need it preserving data lineage and ensuring data governance as part of the regulatory and compliance ecosystem we adhere to

Document and educate the rest of the engineering team in the care and feeding of high quality infrastructure systems that will support our global user base

What We Value

Ownership You work deliberately and completely to provide appropriately scoped solutions to the issues we face as a growing FinTech organization

Collaboration We communicate freely and openly to make sure both code and company are at the level we want it to be

Motivation You have the experience and self management to set goals and expectations that align with the rest of the team to reliably ship product and shape the company everyday

Requirements

What You Bring

Extensive hands on experience building scalable data architectures in a consumer oriented FinTech environment using Terraform dbt and SQL

Expert level knowledge of data centric development patterns for writing and validating various flavors of code deployed across internal and hosted environments alike

Fluent technical communication especially written for AI and non SME consumption

Nice to Have

Data visualization and storytelling techniques

Deep expertise with full stack applications machine learning

Specific experience with global payments ledgering and other user facing FinTech applications

Benefits

What We Offer

200K to 400K cash compensation

Day 1 impact on partner products used by millions globally

Shape technical vision and architecture as we scale

Own major parts of the product and infrastructure

Ship fast and avoid corporate overhead

Submit qualified candidates from your network and earn up to $1,500 referral bonus per successful placement through Sadient. We partner with leading clients across high-impact technology roles and value strong professional referrals.

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Recruiter / Sourcer / Staffing Partner Compensation

Earn USD $6,000 for every successful candidate placement.

Payment Schedule

Candidate completes 30 days of employment – USD $2,000 paid on the 35th day.

Candidate completes 60 days of employment – USD $2,000 paid on the 65th day.

Candidate completes 90 days of employment – USD $2,000 paid on the 95th day.

Total Potential Earnings: USD $6,000.

Payment Terms

Payments will be released only after Sadient receives the corresponding milestone payment from the client. The candidate must remain actively employed through each milestone (30, 60, and 90 days). If the candidate leaves before completing any milestone, payment for that milestone and all subsequent milestones will not be payable. No fee is payable if the candidate does not join the client.

Sourcing Partner Responsibilities

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