Senior Data Engineer (Redshift)

About the Position

Senior Data Engineer (Redshift)

About the Company

Welltech is a global wellness technology company with Ukrainian roots. Our mission is to build and scale wellness apps globally through state-of-the-art, tech-driven performance marketing.

We are one of the most established players in the wellness app space, and we are accelerating. Over 25.5 million people across the world use our apps - Muscle Booster, Yoga-Go, and WalkFit - to build healthier habits, move more, and feel better every day. Every subscription represents a real person making a real change in their life, and we take that seriously.

With 500+ people across hubs in Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, and the UK, we combine the scale of a market leader and the drive of a team that's just getting started.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining the foundation of our data ecosystem. You’ll work alongside data engineers, analysts, and product teams to create robust, scalable, and high-performance data pipelines and models. Your work will directly impact how we deliver insights, power product features, and enable data-driven decision-making across the company.

Challenges You’ll Meet:

• Pipeline Development and Optimization: Build and maintain reliable, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools and best practices, ensuring efficient data flow for analytics and insights.
• Data Modeling and Transformation: Design and implement effective data models that support business needs, enabling high-quality reporting and downstream analytics.
• Collaboration Across Teams: Work closely with data analysts, product managers, and other engineers to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Ensuring Data Quality: Develop and apply data quality checks, validation frameworks, and monitoring to ensure the consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data.
• Performance and Efficiency: Identify and address performance issues in pipelines, queries, and data storage. Suggest and implement optimizations that enhance speed and reliability.
• Security and Compliance: Follow data security best practices and ensure pipelines are built to meet data privacy and compliance standards.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Test new tools and approaches by building Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and conducting performance benchmarks to find the best solutions.
• Automation and CI/CD Practices: Contribute to the development of robust CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI or similar) for data workflows, supporting automated testing and deployment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering or backend development, with a strong focus on building production-grade data pipelines.
• 2-3+ years of experience working with AWS services (Administration of Redshift is a must),
• Solid experience working with AWS services** **(Spectrum, S3, RDS, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS).
• Proficient in Python and SQL for data transformation and automation.
• Experience with dbt for data modeling and transformation.
• Good understanding of streaming architectures and micro-batching for real-time data needs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for data workflows (preferably GitLab CI).
• Familiarity with event schema validation tools/ solutions (Snowplow, Schema Registry).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Strong problem-solving skills-able to dig into data issues, propose solutions, and deliver clean, reliable outcomes.
• A growth mindset-enthusiastic about learning new tools, sharing knowledge, and improving team practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with additional AWS services: EMR, EKS, Athena, EC2.
• Hands-on knowledge of alternative data warehouses like Snowflake or others.
• Experience with PySpark for big data processing.
• Familiarity with event data collection tools (Snowplow, Rudderstack, etc.).
• Interest in or exposure to customer data platforms (CDPs) and real-time data workflows.

We Offer

• Location: Limassol, Cyprus or Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Cloud: AWS (Redshift, Spectrum, S3, RDS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, Glue, MWAA)
• Languages: Python, SQL
• Orchestration: Airflow (MWAA)
• Modeling: dbt
• CI/CD: GitLab CI (including GitLab administration)
• Monitoring: Datadog, Grafana, Graylog
• Event validation process: Iglu schema registry
• APIs & Integrations: REST, OAuth, webhook ingestion
• Infra-as-code (optional): Terraform

Candidate Journey

⭕️ Recruiter call ➔ ⭕️ Technical call with the hiring manager ➔ ⭕️ Meet the future stakeholders

Check out some of our products

• Muscle Booster
• Yoga-Go
• WalkFit