Senior Data Engineer

🌐 GlobalRemote

Posted Sep 15, 2026

Remote | LATAM | Full-time | B2B Contract

Our client is a growing technology company developing market intelligence and software solutions. They are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a small international team and take ownership of complex data engineering challenges involving large-scale data processing, standardization, matching, and data quality.

The role is highly hands-on and suits an engineer who is comfortable working independently, making technical decisions, and taking solutions from initial design through reliable production delivery.

What you’ll do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable production data pipelines.

  • Ingest, process, and transform large volumes of data from multiple sources.

  • Develop solutions for data standardization, normalization, matching, and validation.

  • Build data quality controls and monitoring to identify malformed, inconsistent, or incorrect data.

  • Design reliable approaches to data corrections, updates, reprocessing, and backfills.

  • Improve the architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance of the data platform.

  • Take end-to-end ownership of technical solutions and production quality.

  • Work closely with a small engineering team while independently driving your area of responsibility.

  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve development efficiency.

What we’re looking for

  • 4+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience with production data systems.

  • Strong Python skills.

  • Hands-on experience with PySpark / Apache Spark and distributed data processing.

  • Strong experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT and data ingestion pipelines.

  • Experience working with large, complex datasets and multiple data sources.

  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills.

  • Experience with modern data platforms, data lakes, lakehouse, or similar architectures.

  • Strong understanding of data quality, validation, monitoring, and data reliability.

  • Ability to independently design solutions, troubleshoot production problems, and take ownership of delivery.

  • Fluent English.

Nice to have

  • Delta Lake experience.

  • MongoDB experience.

  • Databricks experience.

  • Experience with data matching, reconciliation, deduplication, or complex standardization problems.

  • Experience in a startup, scale-up, small product company, or lean engineering team.

  • Docker, Linux, CI/CD, or related DevOps experience.

  • Experience mentoring or technically supporting other engineers while remaining hands-on.

  • Active use of AI coding tools or agent-based development practices.

What we offer

  • 100% remote work from LATAM.

  • Full-time B2B contract.

  • High level of technical ownership and autonomy.

  • Direct impact on architecture and product development.

  • Complex engineering challenges rather than narrowly defined implementation tasks.

  • Small, international team with direct communication and minimal bureaucracy.

  • Professional development and continuous learning opportunities.