Alpheya

Lead Data Engineer

Alpheya

Posted 1 month ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Abu Dhabi

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Requirements

Master's degree, 5+ years, Python 3.10+, Asyncio & typing, ETL pipelines, Kafka or RabbitMQ, Postgres expertise, Airflow or Dagster, FastAPI experience, DevOps familiarity, Pytest experience, Kubernetes knowledge, CI/CD pipelines, Communication skills

Required Skills

Python FastAPI Postgres Kafka RabbitMQ Airflow Dagster Celery Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Docker Kubernetes Terraform Pytest GitHub Actions TimescaleDB Clickhouse InfluxDB asyncio Typing Alembic RAG Agents REST CI/CD Observability

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 2–3 Data Engineers to deliver production-ready ETL pipelines and backend services.
  • Design, implement and maintain high-throughput batch and streaming ETL workflows ingesting market data.
  • Develop async orchestration and scheduling to meet SLAs and surface operational metrics.
  • Build secure, versioned REST APIs (FastAPI) exposing market data and configuration entities.
  • Implement observability: structured logs, traces, metrics, alerts and dashboards (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  • Maintain code quality, type-safety, tests, and CI/CD workflows; participate in code reviews.
  • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to translate requirements into backend capabilities.

Requirements

  • Master's degree
  • 5+ years
  • Python 3.10+
  • Asyncio & typing
  • ETL pipelines
  • Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Postgres expertise
  • Airflow or Dagster
  • FastAPI experience
  • DevOps familiarity
  • Pytest experience
  • Kubernetes knowledge
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, or InfluxDB experience
  • Financial market-data protocols knowledge (e.g., FIX/FAST)
  • Experience with RAG/Agent integrations

About the Company

Alpheya is a B2B WealthTech startup headquartered in Abu Dhabi and backed by BNY Mellon and Lunate. The company has raised significant capital to build a modern digital wealth management platform focused on serving banks and financial institutions across the Middle East, targeting affluent, HNW and UHNW investor segments. Alpheya operates with cross-functional, agile teams to deliver production-grade financial technology solutions.

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