Senior Data Engineer

At CarePay, you and not for us! We’re introducing cutting-edge technology to transform the healthcare industry. We do almost everything in-house, developing software using the latest technologies and tools. If you’re passionate about Data, we want you to join our team of over 25 nationalities at our Amsterdam office to make healthcare more accessible for more people in Africa. From day one, you can make a real difference in people’s lives.
In Kenya, people know CarePay better as M-TIBA. The name refers to mobile healthcare access and “health” in Swahili (tiba).
As a Senior Data Engineer, your main task is to preserve the foundations of the Data team, that is extracting the value of all the data we collect at Carepay for the benefit of our members in low-income countries. You will also guide and coach fellow team members, you will help them grow, and you will maximize their impact. You will be working on infrastructure that is already set-up and continuously improving with technologies such as: AWS, Singer, Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, and Metabase, and with them we invite you to change the vicious cycle of problems in healthcare.
Main purpose of the job
Set up ELT pipelines and productionize machine learning algorithms
You have experience with Data Warehousing, Airflow, AWS, Kafka and dbt
Security and GDPR are always part of your development cycle
Ownership of data quality in our datasets and data pipelines
Maintaining and improving our self-service data platform
Bring in your ideas and connect millions of people together
Be part of a multidisciplinary team including backend engineers, analytics engineers, cloud engineers, business analysts, data scientists and business owners
Continuously increase the scalability and maintainability of our architecture
Streamline our CI/CD pipelines with automated tests
Maintain and direct the team’s effectiveness and coach your peers
Be a pioneer and introduce new technologies: we’re always open to change!

The latest versions of Java and Python
AWS, Kubenetes, Terraform, Helm Charts
Snowflake, Airflow, Singer, dbt, Metabase, Retool

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent – or relevant experience
At least 5+ years of data engineer and/or software development experience
Experience with SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, DBT, Airflow and Kafka
Security and GDPR are always part of your development cycle
Have a cloud native mindset
Experience with GitHub or Bitbucket
Experience with Agile and Scrum frameworks
Experience setting up CI/CD tools and pipelines
Fluency in English (Dutch is not required)

Interest in global development and healthcare
Experience with mobile technology and development