Lead Data Engineer (Partner Company Role)

We're looking for the right person to build that foundation from the ground up. This is a hands-on leadership role with real ownership: you'll shape how data is collected, structured, and delivered — and grow a team around you as the function matures. WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON - 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. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE - 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. - Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster, and dbt are strong pluses. - Payments domain knowledge — settlement, transaction lifecycle, processor integrations — is a strong plus. - Familiarity with gRPC, RabbitMQ, and reading Go/Python service code is expected. - English language skills at the B2 level and fluent russian language. WHAT WE OFFER - An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market! - 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 Originally posted on Himalayas