Data Engineer
Nium
Software Engineering, Data Science
Malta
Posted on Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.
Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.
Your Next Exciting Role
The Data Engineer role is part of the Business Intelligence function at Nium. The Data Engineer collaborates closely with stakeholders across the company to design, develop and maintain our payments data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Data Engineers draw their expertise and experience to assist in engineering high-quality solutions to complex problems in the domain, helping to shape the future of our platform and constantly raise the bar.
Our Data engineers deliver their own work while contributing to the overall team and company strategy implementation. The Data engineering team collaborates continuously together, and each member is constantly providing feedback to other team members. They have strong interpersonal skills and are constantly motivated to improve. The culture of knowledge-sharing and collaboration is highly encouraged in an environment were ideas and solutions are shared with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Based in Malta, our Data Engineers work together to create innovative technologies that are revolutionising the global payments industry. They have a strong team spirit, embrace Agile values, and provide technical expertise on high-profile projects.
What would a day @Nium look like?
- Acquire and maintain an in-depth understanding of the business logic embodied in our data solutions, its development infrastructure and project delivery process
- Work in a multi-functional team to design and implement phases of product and technical initiatives, making effective data engineering decisions
- Be accountable for quality code and a champion of best industry practices, keeping up to date with technological trends
- Actively participate in guilds and community of practice teams and initiatives, shaping the technology roadmap
- Eager to learn about new technologies and adapt to team dynamics
- Ability to support the running of data solutions in a critical environment
- Urge to learn about the dynamics of the payments eco-system
Which Skills & Experiences will make you successful?
- 2+ years of experience working in data or business intelligence environments
- Well-rounded knowledge of cutting-edge technologies and data engineering practices and processes, up to date with the latest developments
- Very strong expertise in SQL (skills will be tested)
- Good knowledge of data warehouse design and concepts
- Good knowledge of an object-oriented language such as Python
- Experience with Database Management Systems such as Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
- Proficient in using a data integration tool such as Talend, Pentaho or SSIS
- Experience using a data visualisation tool such as PowerBI, Tableau or SSRS.
- Experience of an analytics engine such as Apache Spark and ability to write applications using libraries such as DataFrames and Spark Streaming is desirable
- Knowledge of Amazon Redshift and Metabase will be considered an asset.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend
We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
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