Senior Data Platform Engineer
Bondora
Tallinn
At Bondora, our mission is simple: to make finance easy, transparent, and accessible for everyone.
Founded in 2008, we’ve helped more than 700,000 customers across Europe borrow and invest effortlessly through our trusted digital products.
As a rapidly growing financial technology company, we’re reaching new heights with a bold vision. We’re set to acquire a banking license, unlocking a world of possibilities for our customers. This transition will allow us to expand our lending across more EU countries and broaden our product suite to deliver even more value.
Join us on this journey and let’s build the future of finance together!
What is this role about?
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Own and continuously improve our Databricks data platform and supporting Azure infrastructure.
- Build, maintain, and scale reliable production data pipelines and ingestion processes.
- Act as first responder for data platform incidents, including cross-platform issues that surface as data quality problems.
- Improve platform performance, security, secrets management, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Strengthen data governance through clear ownership, access and PII management, and the identification of orphaned jobs.
- Own the integration layer and establish strong engineering standards for testing, versioning, code reviews, CI/CD, and GitHub-based workflows.
- Data agent usage is growing rapidly - part of the role is designing the access, cost, and observability boundaries so agents scale safely without becoming the dominant cost line."
What would ensure success in this role?
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, or other distributed data-processing technologies.
- Experience building, operating, and improving production-grade data pipelines.
- A solid software engineering foundation, including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, versioning, and code reviews.
- Experience working in regulated environments such as finance, banking, reporting, or AML/KYC.
- A strong ownership and reliability mindset—you follow problems through to resolution and make sure they stay fixed.
- Excellent communication skills, a structured approach, and the confidence to establish standards in a fast-moving environment.
Bonus points for having
- Familiarity with dbt or other modern data-stack technologies.
- Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
- Experience designing scalable integration layers involving APIs and third-party platforms.
- Knowledge of data privacy, access control, and PII governance.
What can you expect at Bondora?
- Meet Ariba, our Recruiter: Share your experience and aspirations.
- Meet our Chief Product and Technology Officer: Explore the role, its challenges, and the impact you could make.
- Complete a take-home case study: Showcase your expertise with members of our Engineering team.
- Go over the main points with our team: You'll meet our senior engineer and your manager to go over some topics.
- Complete our assessments: Our personality and logic assessments will help us understand your strengths.
- Final conversation: Meet our VP of Engineering to discuss the remaining topics.
- Bar Raiser interview: an independent evaluation step.
- The celebration begins: If the stars align, receive an offer to join the Bondora team!
Join our team of Bondorians, and let's make it happen!
If you'd like to read how Bondora collects, uses, and protects your personal data during recruitment, please see HERE.
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