Data Engineer

About The CompanyAbout Cleo At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating. Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $200 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isn't just a job; it's a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference. We have an exceptionally high bar for talent, seeking individuals who are not only at the top of their field but also embody our culture of collaboration and positive impact. If you’re driven by complex challenges that push your expertise, the chance to shape something truly transformative, and the potential to share in Cleo’s success as we scale, while growing alongside a company that’s scaling fast, this might be your perfect fit. Follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date with new product features and insights from the team. About The Role In this role, you'll work closely with product teams to ensure they effectively adopt the tools, frameworks, and processes provided by the Data Platform team. Enabling them to build scalable, efficient, and reliable data and ML solutions, and achieve their OKRs while championing best practices in Data Engineering. You'll help teams implement robust data pipelines, model deployment workflows, monitoring strategies, and cost-efficient practices to improve their data-driven capabilities. At the same time, you'll act as a crucial bridge between product teams and the Data Platform team, gathering insights on real-world challenges, gaps, and pain points in the existing platform. By surfacing these issues and collaborating with the platform team, you'll contribute to the continuous improvement of our internal tooling and infrastructure, ensuring it better serves the needs of our engineers and data scientists. This is an opportunity to blend hands-on engineering with strategic impact, influencing both product success and the evolution of our data platform. What You'll Do

• Work directly with product teams to facilitate the effective adoption of the Data Platform team's tools, frameworks, and processes to achieve their Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Guide teams in implementing robust data pipelines, reliable model deployment workflows, effective monitoring strategies, and cost-efficient practices.
• Break down complex problems and propose well-reasoned data system designs, considering scaling needs, maintenance simplicity, and appropriate tooling (OLAP vs. OLTP, Batch vs. Stream, etc.).
• Act as a critical feedback loop, gathering insights on real-world platform challenges, gaps, and pain points from product teams and communicating them to the Data Platform team for continuous improvement of internal tooling and infrastructure.
• Champion software engineering best practices, including code quality, maintainability, version control, and automation, with a proficiency in Python.
• Work closely with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to align data initiatives with overarching business goals.
• Share knowledge and help develop engineering capabilities across the broader organization, including engineers outside the data domain.

About You

• Proven ability to design and break down complex data systems, with a focus on simplicity, maintainability, and scaling.
• Solid proficiency in Python and adherence to software engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of at least one distributed processing framework (e.g., PySpark), with a bonus for experience in streaming frameworks (e.g., Flink).
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with IaC tools, specifically Terraform.
• Good understanding of different storage types and when to use them (e.g., OLTP, OLAP, S3).
• Understanding of core computer science concepts including Data Structures, Algorithms, Time Complexity, and Distributed Processing.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across teams (data scientists, software engineers, PMs).
• Understanding the value proposition of data solutions and adopting a customer-focused, incremental delivery approach.

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