Senior Data Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who thrives on building commercial products and plays a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You will own projects end-to-end, collaborating with Product Managers to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure ongoing success post-deployment. You'll focus on simplicity while contributing technical insights to enhance the system's performance, stability, and user experience.

Location:  LATAM 100% Remote. Working hours are based on the US Pacific Time Zone.

About Us:

Abstra is a fast-growing, Nearshore Tech Talent services company, providing top Latin American tech talent to U.S. companies and beyond. Founded by U.S.-bred engineers with over 15 years of experience, Abstra specializes in sourcing skilled professionals across a wide range of technologies to meet our clients’ needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in the Data Engineering space, and with building and maintaining big data pipelines
• 3+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product).
• Proficient in Spark
• Experience with strongly-typed languages (Java / Scala preferred)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase.
• Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong understanding of building scalable and high-performance back-end systems, optimizing for low-latency and high-throughput.
• Worked with a variety of data (structured/unstructured), data formats (flat files, XML, JSON, relational, parquet).
• Experience in functional programming languages (Scala preferred)
• Experience in Cyber Security

What We Offer:

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• The chance to work on impactful projects with a talented team.
• Excellent compensation in USD.
• Hardware and software setup (mandatory).