Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FYST is a fintech company looking for a Lead Data Engineer to build and lead a data engineering team. This hands-on leadership role involves designing data architecture, owning tooling decisions, and implementing data pipelines to enhance the company's data capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design the target-state data architecture: Postgres CDC → Kafka → Snowflake → client-facing data products
- Own tooling decisions across ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and quality layers
- Implement CDC-based ingestion from PostgreSQL services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, K8s operator) using Debezium or equivalent
- Build streaming and near-real-time pipelines with defined SLAs
- Build a data quality control layer: checksums, reconciliation, schema validation, anomaly detection, and alerting
- Define quality checkpoints across the full pipeline — from source capture through Snowflake to client delivery
- Define and enforce data contracts with service-owning teams for core entities: transaction, merchant, settlement, and processing status
- Build the external data delivery layer: financial settlement, transaction status, processor reconciliation, and client analytics
- Design tenant separation and implement replay/reload mechanisms for failure recovery
- Start hands-on, then gradually hire and grow a small data engineering team as the function matures. Build a pragmatic roadmap with concrete deliverables at 3, 6, and 12 months
Skills
- 5+ years in data engineering with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines
- Hands-on with Snowflake, PostgreSQL CDC (Debezium preferred), and Kafka
- Solid AWS experience — S3, RDS, Aurora, and cloud data infrastructure
- Data quality engineering mindset: monitoring, reconciliation, lineage
- Comfortable defining data contracts and driving requirements with backend engineering teams
- Technical leadership experience: project ownership, cross-team alignment, delivery under constraints
- Familiarity with gRPC, RabbitMQ, and reading Go/Python service code is expected
- Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster, and dbt are strong pluses
- Payments domain knowledge — settlement, transaction lifecycle, processor integrations — is a strong plus
Benefits
- Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us
- Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
- Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
- Remote work
- 20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; sick leaves; additional birthday day off
Company Overview
FYST provides technology consultancy for eCommerce and FinTech businesses. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in Riga, Riga, LVA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://fyst.com.