Senior Data Engineer

• Build and scale the modern data platform powering analytics, risk, finance, and critical business decisions across Zip.

• Own end-to-end data pipelines, dimensional models, and trusted data products using modern cloud data technologies.

• Drive data platform reliability, performance, and engineering excellence while influencing architecture and mentoring other engineers.

• Remote-first opportunity for US-based employees, with the option to work in person from our Manhattan office.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Zip, you’ll build and operate the data foundation powering analytics, risk, finance, product, and critical business decisions across the organization.

You’ll own scalable pipelines, data models, and trusted data products across our modern warehouse and lakehouse, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, discoverable, and cost-efficient. You’ll partner across Analytics, Risk, Product, Data Science, ML, and Engineering to solve complex data challenges and increasingly enable AI-powered product.

This is a hands-on senior role where you’ll own meaningful parts of Zip’s data platform, influence architecture, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines that move data from transactional systems, event streams, APIs, third-party providers, and other sources into Zip’s warehouse and lakehouse.
• Develop and maintain dimensional, semantic, and domain-oriented data models that support analytics, reporting, finance, risk, product, and operational use cases.
• Build reliable ELT/ETL workflows using modern transformation and orchestration frameworks, with strong practices around testing, version control, deployment, and monitoring.
• Own data quality end to end — including validation, freshness, anomaly detection, reconciliation, observability, and clear alerting when data does not behave as expected.
• Build curated, reusable, and well-documented data products that downstream teams can consume without repeatedly rebuilding business logic.
• Design and implement event-driven and near real-time data solutions for use cases such as transaction monitoring, risk and fraud signals and operational intelligence.
• Improve the scalability, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of assigned data platform across compute, storage, and pipeline workloads; provide recommendations for broader platform changes.
• Apply and contribute to engineering best practices for modular design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, lineage, documentation, infrastructure as code, and operational ownership.
• Support data governance, security, access controls, privacy, and compliance requirements appropriate to a regulated financial services environment.
• Build self-service data capabilities, shared frameworks, and tooling that reduce ad-hoc requests and enable teams to move faster with trusted data.
• Partner with Data Science and Machine Learning teams to deliver reliable datasets and pipelines for model development, experimentation, and production workloads.
• Help evolve Zip’s data foundation for emerging AI use cases through high-quality data products, strong metadata, and support for structured and unstructured data where appropriate.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and translate business problems into scalable data solutions.
• Independently deliver and lead technical initiatives, contribute to architecture and design decisions, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar across Data Engineering.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production data pipelines and data platforms at scale.
• Advanced SQL and strong Python skills, with a track record of writing maintainable, tested, production-quality code.
• Deep experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar technologies.
• Strong data modeling fundamentals, including dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, semantic layers, and designing data for analytical and operational consumption.
• Hands-on experience with modern transformation frameworks such as dbt or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Dagster etc.
• Experience designing and operating streaming or event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture patterns across data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, and reusable data products.
• Experience implementing data quality, testing, observability, metadata, lineage, and monitoring practices in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform — Azure preferred; AWS and GCP.
• Strong software engineering practices including Git-based workflows, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and operational ownership of what you build.
• Understanding of security, privacy, governance, and access-control considerations for enterprise data systems.
• A strong sense of ownership for data accuracy, consistency, reliability, and usability — including the judgment to recognize when the data simply doesn’t look right.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with modern lakehouse technologies and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or similar technologies.
• Experience preparing data for machine learning workloads, including feature pipelines, training datasets, or serving layers.
• Familiarity with how AI and LLM-powered applications consume enterprise data, including unstructured data, metadata enrichment, embeddings, semantic retrieval, or similar patterns.
• Experience implementing enterprise data contracts and data catalogs, lineage, metadata management, or data discovery capabilities.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native deployment technologies.
• Experience working with regulatory, compliance, or audit-driven data requirements.
• Experience in fintech, payments, lending, risk, fraud, compliance, or other highly regulated environments.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–9 Months)

Within your first 6–9 months, you’ll be a trusted technical leader delivering high-impact data initiatives that create measurable value across Zip. You’ll deliver complex projects end to end, improve the reliability and scalability of our data platform, and build reusable solutions that accelerate teams across the organization. You’ll raise the engineering bar through strong technical ownership, sound architecture, and solutions built to scale.

What you will get in return

Zip is a place where you'll get out what you put in. The newness of our sector means we need to move at pace and embrace change, and our promise to you when you join the team is that you'll feel empowered and trusted to make big things happen quickly.

We want you to feel welcome and supported to be yourself and care for yourself at work. You'll have opportunities to grow your skills and your career, surrounded by smart, friendly people and leaders who have your back.

• Flexible working culture and incentive programs
• Unlimited PTO, generous paid parental leave and leading family support policies
• Company-sponsored 401k match
• Learning and wellness subscription stipend
• Union Square office with a casual dress code
• Employer-sponsored insurance for you and your dependents, with several 100% Zip-covered choices available

The annual base Pay Range for this position is $134,000 - $180,000. This range reflects our US national compensation (USN). Additional premium percentages may apply based on our tiered premium strategy.

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

If hired, employees will be in an 'at-will position' and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know if there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centered products.

Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers access to point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants. We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.

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