Senior Data Engineer

About the Position

Senior Data Engineer

If you're passionate about technology and ready for a challenge, join our team of talented individuals and show your technical skills, creativity, and drive for impact.

You'll work with the best in the industry in a supportive, happy, and human-centric environment, making seamless technology. That’s why we were recognized as Best Workplace® in Europe (medium companies), Best Quality of Life Company® and the 2nd Best Great Place to Work® in Portugal by Great Place to Work®. See for yourself by checking our Glassdoor reviews.

Responsibilities

At Imaginary Cloud, our work improves and simplifies people's lives by creating easy and intuitive digital products. Our day-to-day tasks include development, problem-solving, management, and human interaction.

Together, we will drive innovation by creating innovative projects for some of the best companies around the world. You'll be able to grow as you engage with multidisciplinary teams, multiple industries, and projects, overcoming the many challenges that will test and build your skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of working experience in Data Engineering or closely related role
• Academic background in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, or related quantitative field
• Hands-on production experience in Databricks
• Significant experience building data workloads in Databricks, with a very good understanding of PySpark and Delta Lake
• Strong proficiency with SQL - window functions, complex joins and query tuning
• Experience with streaming or incremental ingestion (Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, or equivalent) and the patterns that keep it correct: idempotency, checkpointing and schema evolution.
• Data modelling for BI and analytics
• Good understanding of testing and CI/CD for Databricks workflows, alongside the software engineering and DevOps basics - git, code review, linters, unit tests and CI/CD pipelines are things you use daily
• Data quality practice: testing data as well as code, using pipeline expectations, dbt tests or similar
• Outstanding proficiency in using Agentic AI tools like Cursor IDE and GitHub Copilot to accelerate code development, refactoring, and complex debugging
• Analytical mind with a strong problem-solving aptitude
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product development teams
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written
• We seek team members who live in Portugal or are willing and legally qualified to live and work there

We Offer

• Salary range: 39,360.00€ - 60,600.00€ gross per year.
• Salary according to your experience and performance
• Paid sick days
• Health and dental insurance
• Comfort budget

Tech Stack

• Python / PySpark / Django
• Javascript (React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js, Node.js)
• Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Git
• SQL (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
• Mobile development (iOS, Android, React Native)
• Linux / Mac OS - command line
• Automated provisioning tools (Docker / Ansible / Capistrano)
• NoSQL (Mongo, Redis, etc.)
• Photoshop / Figma

About the Company

A remote-first company with flexible working hours, global projects with industry-leading clients, and a human-centric culture that values people and empowers them. We offer an informal environment, team events to share knowledge and celebrate collectively, mentoring, and performance appraisals for solid growth potential.

Does this sound exactly like what you’re looking for? Then apply now, and let's get the conversation started!