Senior Data Engineer
Cape Town, ZA
Tech – Data /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Who we are:
Mama Money is a growth stage fintech startup working to help migrant workers in South Africa send money home. Since 2015 we have been providing reliable remittances, at a socially fair price, to those that need it most.
Mama HQ is in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. We are 122 people strong (and counting) from 19 countries across Africa, Asia, the UK, and Europe. Our culture is built around the well-being of our team members and making a difference in our communities. “Just be lekker!” personifies our approach to work: we trust the wisdom of our talented and diverse team to do what is best for our customers and get the job done responsibly, without pedantic policies.
We’ve been around since 2015 and have earned a few accolades along the way, made some new friends, and expanded our reach. We've had some great times and some tough times, but we continue to focus on helping people rather than maximizing profit.
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role entails the development, construction, testing, and maintenance of our data storage architecture, creating data systems and pipelines, and preparing data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.
As our Data Engineer you will:
- Assist in the design, development, deployment, and management of Mama Money's Data Lake and Data Warehouse solution on AWS.
- Collaborate closely with the DevOps, Development and Data teams, providing data solutions for our migration to microservices.
- Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures.
- Build infrastructure to automate high volumes of data delivery and creatively solving data volume and scaling challenges.
- Contribute to the design and architecture of innovative solutions.
- Align architecture with business requirements.
- Engage in data acquisition and pipelining, including data extraction and transformation.
- Identify opportunities to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
- Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modelling.
- Use data to discover tasks that can be automated
In your first 90 days at Mama Money, you will:
- Familiarize yourself with our data architecture and understand the scope and impact of your role.
- Develop an understanding of our business model and operational strategies.
- Engage with key stakeholders and the data team to get a grasp on ongoing data projects.
- Begin contributing to the design and architecture of solutions.
About you:
- You have exposure to AWS infrastructure with Lambda, Glue, EC2 & EMR.
- You have 3+ years of experience in a Data Engineering role, building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and datasets.
- You have constructed data acquisition, warehousing and reporting solutions.
- You have extensive SQL knowledge for building optimal data extracts, query optimization.
- You have Python experience, using it as the main programming language in our data infrastructure and building/maintaining/improving cloud solutions.
- You have exposure to Terraform as an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool.
- Experience in a Linux environment would be ideal.
It would be a bonus if you have experience with:
- Experience with Tableau.
- Exposure to version control systems.
- A degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Experience with dbt and AWS Athena.
Why Mama:
At Mama Money, the customers & communities we serve are at the heart of all that we do.
We bring our authentic selves to work where we are free to express our diverse identities while staying true to what we believe in and how we feel. Part of that means being able to have difficult conversations when necessary but always remembering to do so with trust, respect, and a positive mindset. Being open to receiving feedback and understanding how this helps us evolve and grow is essential to succeeding in our environment.
We are responsible for ourselves, our behaviour, our delivery, and our output. Although we always aim to move things forward and get $hit done, we start small - taking it step by step and always looking for ways in which we can improve. We know from experience that when we work together towards a common goal, we can achieve anything.
Mama Money is a special place because we care. We care about our customers, we care about the people who work for us and we care about the impact our work has on the world. There are things that we don’t care about too. Things like bureaucracy, discrimination, ego, titles, and silos. We’re a friendly bunch who don’t take ourselves too seriously but we do take our work, and our customers’ hard-earned money, very seriously.
Mama’s values:
1. Customer & Community
2. Authentic
3. Positive Mindset
4. Responsible
5. Togetherness
NB: Applications only open to candidates in Cape Town, or candidates who are actively looking to relocate at their own expense.
