Data Engineer

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**Job Purpose and Overview**:
Appfire is seeking a full-time **Data Engineer**

In this critical role, you will help build and evolve our company-wide data assets from a very early stage. Leveraging your python and SQL skills, data warehousing experience, and your background setting up robust infrastructure, you will help develop technologies, solutions, and data pipelines to achieve a unified and efficient ecosystem for Appfire's decisions and capabilities. We're growing quickly and have a lot to accomplish.

You will be part of a central data insights team providing a variety of data and analytics services to support company-wide initiatives, allowing ample opportunity to gain valuable experience into the company decision-making as a whole, broaden your technical and business skills, and grow your career.

**What You Will Do**:

- Create and maintain key infrastructure supporting decisions across Appfire
- Advocate for and implement best practices surrounding our development process, including automation, testing, and CI/CD
- Contribute to the development of RAG models and infrastructure
- Develop and deploy monitoring solutions and governance strategies to ensure that the right data is available on time and to the correct audience
- Build strategic relationships with business, analytics, and engineering teams to build robust and scalable solutions to complex problems involving Appfire's central data assets
- Work closely with both internal and external partners to stand up new data delivery solutions (APIs, services, webhooks, etc.)
- Be a key driver to the evolution of our data lake/warehouse (AWS/Snowflake)
- Drive UAT efforts with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet their business requirements
- Help carry out proof of concepts for new tools and/or processes
- Write and leverage knowledge base articles to document procedures and reports
- Stay on the forefront of the rapidly evolving Data landscape to ensure the team leverages best-in-class technologies and methodologies, allowing us to scale quickly and securely

**What We Would Like to See**:

- 3+ years' experience in a data / software engineering role with a solid understanding of modern data warehousing and software development approaches and best practices
- 3+ years' experience with Python
- 3+ years' experience building products, solutions, and tools to provide data to company-wide systems and use cases
- 3+ years' experience in ETL development and SQL optimization
- 1+ years' experience automating cloud infrastructure, eg Terraform
- 1+ years' experience implementing CI/CD
- 1+ years' experience developing RAG models and infrastructure
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Strong personal organization skills and ability to multitask
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision on 3-5 concurrent projects
- Cloud Infrastructure/Orchestration/Docker experience required
- AWS/Airflow/Terraform experience preferred
- Snowflake/DBT experience preferred

**What We Offer**:
**Financial benefits**
- Every Appfire employee is eligible for company equity.
- Work from-home allowance: 50€ gross per month for 11 months a year (i.e. Excluding Holidays).

**Skills development benefits**
- Access to the Appfire University learning platform - a hub of knowledge, interactive resources, and engaging instructor-led courses designed to fuel your learning journey with unparalleled depth and accessibility.

**PTO, health & well-being**
- 25 working days of paid annual leave.
- Reduced summer hours: From July 1st until the end of August, we work 6 hours daily.
- Flexible bank holiday policy, which allows you to exchange a government-set pu