Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Why Recharge

At Recharge, we’re making prepaid easy—for everyone, everywhere. Whether it’s topping up your mobile, sending gaming credit, or grabbing a gift card, our platform gives people instant access to digital prepaid payment products across 180+ countries. We’re already working with thousands of brands, have passed 2 million app downloads, and are on our way to €1b in sales. As a profitable scale-up with big ambitions: new markets, new products, and new ways to pay. And we’re just getting started.

Our team of 150+ people from 30+ nationalities are building something exciting—and we’re looking for curious, driven people to help us shape what’s next. Sound like you? Come join the journey.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our innovative Data Platform team, a core component of Recharge’s ambitious goals.

In this role, you’ll be integral to designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines that fuel decision-making across the business. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is accessible, reliable, and impactful. You will work alongside other 2 Data Engineers and report directly to Oberdan Bitencourt Ferreira.

What will you be working on:

• Design and implement robust data pipelines to support both batch and real-time data processing, ensuring optimal performance and scalability;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, develop ETL processes, and deliver high-quality data products for analytics and machine learning;
• Own end-to-end data workflows, from ingestion through transformation to delivery, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility;
• Identify and implement best practices for data engineering, data quality, and data governance, continuously improving our platform;
• Develop monitoring and alerting mechanisms to detect and resolve issues within the data infrastructure proactively;
• Work with cloud services, particularly AWS, to build, manage, and optimise data lakes and warehouses;
• Contribute to designing and enforcing Recharge’s data architecture, policies, and processes;
• Mentor and collaborate with less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning;
• Participate in roadmap development, proactively proposing innovative data solutions aligning with business objectives.

What You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building data pipelines, and managing ETL workflows at scale;
• Strong hands-on experience with data processing frameworks and languages like SQL and Python;
• Solid understanding of cloud environments, especially AWS, focusing on services like S3 and AWS Step Functions;
• Solid experience with AWS Redshift;
• Knowledge or experience with SaaS tools such as Airbyte, Fivetran, dbt, Sifflet, Spark/PySpark or similar tools;
• Experience with containerisation solutions like Docker;
• Proven expertise in designing, building, and managing data lakes, data warehouses, and other data infrastructure solutions with or without using SaaS applications;
• Solid understanding of workflow management tools like Apache Airflow;
• Experience with data quality management, monitoring, and observability best practices to ensure data reliability;
• Experience with defining/maintaining CI/CD for data pipelines, including automated testing, environment provisioning and other best practices. We rely on GitHub Actions and Terraform;
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning data initiatives with business goals;
• A self-starter with strong problem-solving skills, continually seeking ways to optimise and innovate in data engineering processes;
• Ability to operate responsibly in alignment with the industry's best practices and team conventions. The ability to drive initiatives toward completion and deliver working solutions is a must-have.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Recharge we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What We Offer

• 30 days of holiday, a great pension scheme, and one of the best relocation packages in Amsterdam
• Flexible working hours and an office overlooking the Amstel
• Macbook Pro (13”or 15”)
• Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, travel to and from the office, working-from-home and self-learning
• Free healthy breakfast, lunch and snacks by our in-house chef
• Unlimited access to mental health support by certified psychologists via OpenUp
• Free Dutch classes to help out with daily life in the Netherlands
• Regular parties, pub quizzes, bingo sessions, celebrations and other events