Senior Data Engineer

Who Are We? Thndr was founded with the dream to democratize access to investing through smart tech and human design, which is just a fancy way of saying giving anyone with a smartphone easy access to preserve and grow their wealth. At the same time, we’re promoting local investment products to propel the economies that we serve

History has shown that investing is the single greatest way to build long term wealth – but before Thndr, only a very small percentage of people had access to investing due to:

• High barriers to entry – In the form of minimum account balances, brick and mortar onboarding and low financial literacy.
• Irrelevant experience – Catered towards traders and financial experts, therefore alienating the majority of the population.
• Fragmented offering – Investment products are not gathered in a single outlet.

On our short journey we’ve validated that there is a need for our solution, as illustrated by these key figures:

• 3 million app downloads
• $8.8bn in annualized traded value
• #1 platform in terms of traded value
• 84% of our users are investing for the first time
• 65% of our users come from outside of capital cities and have previously had limited access to financial institutions

We’re proud of how far we’ve come and the size of our impact in just a few years – but we’re just getting started and are excited for what’s to come.

It’ll take a lot of passion, bold risks, and hard work to fulfill our mission of democratizing investing in MENA and giving everyone an equal opportunity to generate and grow their wealth.What You’ll Do

• Engage with different data stakeholders to understand their challenges and translate their challenges into data products.
• Design, implement and automate robust, scalable data pipelines profile, test and automate data quality tests and engage with the different stakeholders to improve data quality.
• Model data for analytics and work with the data analytics team to help them deliver reports & dashboards.
• Help design and implement a unified semantic layer that serves as the main source for metrics in Thndr.
• Use open source tools and cloud components to design and implement scalable and robust data-intensive solutions.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big data data stores.

What You’ll Need

• BS/BE/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience in Data Engineering.
• Solid understanding algorithms & data structures.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Java or Scala.
• Good knowledge of Extract Transform and Load/Extract, Load and Transform and reporting/analytic tools.
• Experience with data warehouses, technical architectures, and cloud data infrastructure components.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, kubernetes and containerization.
• Good knowledge of SQL and experience with at least 1 relational database, 1 document database, 1 key value store, 1 message queuing system and 1 scalable cloud-based OLAP system. Experience with a search engine is a plus.
• Good understanding of distributed systems theory.
• Good understanding to dimensional modeling is a plus.
• Experience with headless BI and Semantic Modeling is a plus.
• Exposure to modern modeling frameworks & technologies is a plus (dbt, Dataform, SQLMesh).

At Thndr, we’re looking for people invigorated by our mission, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. We’re looking for people that are hungry to become agents of change and that understand the huge responsibility associated with dealing with people’s money.