Data Engineer
OpenFX is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team in Bengaluru, India. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining reliable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and publish production data. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data correctness and make data usable for analytics, risk, and operations at scale.
In this role, you will own critical data pipelines, design accurate and auditable data models, and build reliable ingestion pipelines from transactional systems and external partners. You will also ensure data correctness and freshness through validation, monitoring, and backfills, handle late-arriving, duplicate, and inconsistent data safely, and partner with Backend, Analytics, Risk, and Ops teams to translate requirements into robust data solutions. Additionally, you will improve core data metrics such as pipeline reliability, data latency, and reconciliation accuracy, and automate pipeline operations including retries, recovery, and backfills.
The ideal candidate will have 3 to 7 years of experience in data engineering or backend data systems, strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals, experience building batch and/or streaming pipelines, experience working with relational databases and data warehouses, experience handling schema evolution and backfills, understanding of data quality, validation, and monitoring, and the ability to clearly explain data tradeoffs. Preferred qualifications include experience with Kafka, Spark, or Flink, experience with modern warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift), experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools, experience in fintech or regulated domains, familiarity with event-driven architectures, and experience mentoring junior engineers.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, equity in a rapidly growing company, the opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at the forefront of fintech innovation, the opportunity to make a significant impact on global financial infrastructure, and a collaborative work culture with emphasis on personal and professional growth.