The Opportunity: Flywire is seeking a motivated and skilled Data Engineer to contribute to the development and optimisation of our data platforms and pipelines. In this role, you will work closely with the data engineering, analytics engineering, and business intelligence teams to build, maintain, and enhance the infrastructure that supports Flywire's data needs. You will have the opportunity to work with modern data technologies in a cloud-based environment while contributing to projects that have a direct impact on the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Contribute to the optimisation of existing data workflows and applications for performance and resource efficiency.
- Write, test, and deploy data transformation jobs using tools like dbt.
- Work with streaming data frameworks and infrastructure to process real-time and near real-time data.
- Support the development and maintenance of data models within our cloud data warehouse (Big Query).
- Collaborate with data scientists, BI developers, analytics engineers, and other data engineers to understand data requirements and deliver reliable data solutions.
- Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the team's engineering standards and best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data pipelines and data infrastructure.
- Learn and apply new technologies and techniques in the data engineering space.