Senior Data Engineer

Join our mission to build trust in the digital ecosystem across some of the world's most exciting and rapidly growing emerging markets.

At IDWise, we're pioneering ultra-fast and agile identity verification solutions driven by cutting-edge AI and machine learning. Our team thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment where innovation and adaptability are key. If you're a self-starter who enjoys taking ownership, solving complex challenges, and working alongside passionate, purpose-driven colleagues, we want you to join us!

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to enhance and expand IDWise’s data engineering capabilities. In this role, you will design and implement scalable data pipelines to process, analyse, and extract meaningful insights from IDWise’s identity platform. You will work closely with our development, analytics, and machine learning teams to ensure efficient data flows, optimize performance, and support data-driven decision-making. Strong programming skills, expertise in data modelling, and a problem-solving mindset are essential to succeed in this role.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Design and implement metrics to monitor the performance of machine learning models in a production environment.

• Identify the data needed for a business problem and implement logging required to ensure the availability of data.

• Build and maintain data streaming system to monitor the performance of edge devices.

• Write ETL scripts to enhance, standardize, and optimize data for analysis.

• Design databases to meet the analysis requirements considering the integration of data from different sources.

• Maintain data integrity by designing and improving automated tasks for processing and validating large amounts of data efficiently.

• Work closely with IDWise’s machine learning and software engineers to understand data needs, representing key data insights visually in a meaningful way.

• Communicate important information and insights to the data team and software engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related fields and +5 years of professional experience as a data engineer or equivalent.

• Data ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) design, implementation, and maintenance on a large scale.

• Expert proficiency in Python and essential development tools such Git, Jira, and Docker.

• Strong experience in large data sources including SQL, NoSQL databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.

• Expert proficiency in writing SQL statements.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills in order to explain your work to people who don't understand the mechanics behind data analysis.

• Experience in database interrogation and analysis tools, such as Grafana.

• Comfortable working with AWS services including Lambda, CloudWatch, and Timestream.

• Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding solutions.

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity options.

• Work on meaningful, cutting-edge technology that impacts trust in the digital ecosystem.

• Be part of a passionate, innovative, and fast-growing team shaping the future of identity verification.

Nice to have

• Interest in cyber-security or biometrics.