Platform Engineer Data & ML

Are you a platform engineer ready to scale your impact, work with cutting-edge tech, and see your work directly drive real-world financial decisions? At BridgeFund, we are looking for a Platform Engineer Data & ML to help build and optimize the platform powering our automated lending.

Your role

As a Platform Engineer – Data & ML, you are the technical architect behind the liberation of money. By building a high-performance data platform, you directly enable BridgeFund’s mission to move capital out of stagnant banks and onto the “work floor”. You bridge the gap between complex data and real-world impact, designing the automated systems that allow entrepreneurs to skip the “human bottlenecks” and get a decision in record time.

To fulfill this vision, your goal is to turn messy data into a standardized, production-grade ecosystem. By architecting a platform that powers 200+ production workflows and 30+ ingestion pipelines through medallion layers on Databricks, you ensure our financing remains simple, fast, and fair. Your focus on MLOps foundations and data contracts provides the reliability needed to scale our impact. Ultimately, you aren’t just managing infrastructure; you are building the bridge that gives entrepreneurs their autonomy back.

Responsibilities

• Build the MLOps platform that powers credit risk scoring, automated lending decisions, and transaction categorisation. This platform supports the full ML lifecycle from feature engineering to production inference.
• Drive performance and cost optimisations for heavily computational Spark jobs and improve scalability of the data & ML platform.
• Drive adoption of platform standards like ingestion frameworks, data modelling conventions, data contracts, and ML operations patterns, including feature stores, model registry, and reusable training and inference pipelines.
• Architect CI/CD infrastructure, shared tooling, and multi-environment deployment strategies across a growing multi-repo ecosystem.
• Strengthen data governance, access controls, security practices, and SDLC maturity, and support data science teams in adopting these standards.

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Platform Engineer or ML Engineer.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another technical field.
• Strong experience with Python and/or PySpark, and solid SQL skills.
• Familiarity with Databricks and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs).
• Experience with orchestration tools like Databricks Lakeflow Jobs, Airflow or Dagster.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with unit and integration testing.
• Understanding of containerisation techniques such as Docker.
• Familiarity with data architecture and system design.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• A practical problem-solver who enjoys collaborative engineering and understands that the true value of a data product is realized in production, one release at a time.

Who we are

While small businesses drive the economy, when it comes to financing, traditional systems still move at the speed of paper. We founded BridgeFund in 2018 to change that. We've stripped away the bureaucracy, and our advanced technology processes data quickly and efficiently. By combining cutting-edge automation with real human logic, we make financing decisions that are both fast and fair. We grew 75% last year and have proudly fast-tracked over €700 million in loans to entrepreneurs. Our next goal is to scale our data capabilities by making our platform even sharper, ensuring support for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

What we offer

• A competitive salary between €6,500 and €7,000 based on 40 hours per week. Growth is intentional here, and we use an internal competency framework to help you track your progress and continuously evolve in your role.
• A hybrid model, requiring three days per week in our office.
• 6% pension via ASR Doen Pensioen.
• 25 paid vacation days and 8% holiday allowance.
• Two weeks per year of remote work from abroad.
• Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer, even if you cycle.
• €40 Alleo budget per month for things like TrainMore, Uber, or a day out.
• BridgeFund Academy for personal growth, learning, and coaching.
• Annual Learning & Development budget of €1,500 for your professional growth.
• Modern workspace with a MacBook, open areas, quiet zones, and zero ceiling tiles.
• Bridge Day: one extra day off for something that matters to you.
• Company boat The Royal Ted for team events or private use.
• Sports activities such as boxing classes and a running club.
• 50% paid lunches.
• Free snacks, healthy and not-so-healthy.
• Friday drinks, quarterly parties, and team outings.
• BridgeFun(d) bar with DJ booth, stage, and karaoke.