Data Engineer

Job Description

At XE, we live currencies. We provide a comprehensive range of currency services and products, including our Currency Converter, Market Analysis, Currency Data API and quick, easy, secure Money Transfers for individuals and businesses. We leverage technology to deliver these services through our website, mobile apps and by phone. Last year, we helped nearly 300 million people access information about the currencies that matter to them, and over 150,000 people used us to send money overseas. Thousands of businesses relied on us for information about the currency markets, advice on managing their foreign exchange risk or trusted us with their business-critical international payments.

At XE, we share the belief that behind every currency exchange, query or transaction is a person or business trying to accomplish something important, so we work together to develop new and better currency services that put our customers first. We are proud to be part of Euronet Worldwide (Nasdaq: EEFT), a global leader in processing secure electronic financial transactions. Under Euronet, we have brought together our key brands – XE, HiFX and Currency Online– to become the business that XE is today.

XE is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join the XE Data Science team. If you are easily excited by raw data and the boundless potential to transform it into useful shapes and forms, this is your dream job. Couple that with a best-in-class cloud data architecture, and you are off to the races. You will be supporting a data ecosystem that is fueled by 280 million annual visitors to our web and app properties. Combine this with an enterprise-grade events-based Martech stack and the opportunities really are limitless. This role will give you the unbridled freedom to explore  your data passions to connect disparate data sources together to create meaningful business insights and drive rapid product improvement and growth. If you are also an API guru, then we want you...now. 

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain data-serving performant API services 

• Design, develop, and maintain microservices for real-time data ingestion and ETL pipelines  

• Analyze and organize raw data across Xe's Martech stack 

• Develop and Maintain data lakes 

• Collaborate with data scientists and architects on several projects 

• Ensure all components are highly scalable, maintainable, and monitored 

• Optimize cloud services for security, cost and performance

Who You Are

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline 

• Strong proficiency with SQL and its variations amongst popular databases 

• Strong knowledge of developing and maintaining API services in a cloud environment 

• Strong object and service-oriented programming skills in Python to write efficient, scalable code 

• Knowledge of modern containerization techniques - Docker, Docker Compose 

• A strong interest in data and the insights it can provide to better serve our customers 

• Experience with relational and unstructured databases and data lakes 

• An understanding of business goals and how data policies can affect them 

• Effective communication and collaboration skills 

• A strong understanding of the concepts associated with privacy and data security 

Perks & Benefits

• Annual salary increase review
• End of the year bonus (Christmas bonus)
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
• 30 days vacation per year
• Insurance guaranteed for employees ( Health, Oncological , Dental , Life Insurance)
• No fee when using RIA service/wire transfers