Description
Data Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, India
The Impact You’ll Drive
At Vegapay, data is not a support function - it is a core product enabler. As a Data Engineer, you will build the backbone that powers our credit infrastructure, enabling reliable, real-time, and scalable data systems.
Your work will directly influence decision-making across product, risk, and business teams. From designing high-performance pipelines to enabling analytics and ML use cases, you will ensure our data ecosystem is robust, efficient, and built for scale. Simply put, you will turn data into a competitive advantage.
The Hats You Will Wear
- Build and scale reliable data pipelines across batch and real-time systems
- Design and maintain data lakes and warehouses on AWS/GCP for high performance and availability
- Develop scalable ETL/ELT workflows across diverse data sources and formats
- Optimize data architecture for performance, cost, and reliability
- Implement real-time data processing within a microservices ecosystem
- Create reusable data assets and tools for analytics and data science teams
- Design efficient data models aligned with product and business needs
- Drive automation and continuously improve data workflows and infrastructure
- Partner with Product, Business, and Data teams to solve high-impact problems
- Establish and enforce best practices across data engineering, including CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
- Define and maintain data taxonomy, metadata, and documentation standards
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies to strengthen our data stack
The Perfect Fit
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering
- Strong experience building and scaling data pipelines and architectures
- Proficiency in big data technologies (Spark/Flink, Kafka/Kinesis, Hive, etc.)
- Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MongoDB)
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Luigi, etc.)
- Solid exposure to AWS or GCP ecosystems
- Experience with real-time/stream processing systems
- Proficiency in programming languages like Java or Scala
- Strong understanding of data modeling, metadata, and data governance principles
- Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets
- Familiarity with scalable data stores and distributed systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
- Good understanding of engineering best practices (Agile, CI/CD, testing frameworks)
The Problem We’re Solving
Financial institutions today are held back by legacy systems that are slow, rigid, and expensive to scale. Launching or evolving credit, lending, and UPI products often takes months, requires heavy engineering effort, and limits the ability to create personalized customer experiences.
At the same time, customer expectations have changed - speed, flexibility, and tailored financial products are no longer optional. Banks and fintechs need infrastructure that allows them to innovate quickly, adapt continuously, and scale without friction.
This is where we come in.
At Vegapay, we are building modern, configurable fintech infrastructure that enables banks, NBFCs, and enterprises to design, launch, and manage credit and payment programs with ease. Our platform brings together flexibility, speed, and control - helping our partners unlock new growth opportunities and deliver personalized banking experiences at scale.
The Opportunity Ahead
- High ownership: You build it, you own it
- Build at the Core of Fintech Infrastructure
- Strong engineering culture: Clean code, solid architecture, fast execution
- Zero fluff: Minimal bureaucracy, maximum impact
There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:
Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs
Engineering Jobs
60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies
Updated Daily
New jobs are added every day as companies post them
Refined Search
Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results
Become a member
🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...
Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.
To try it out
For active job seekers
For those who are passive looking
Cancel anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
- We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
- We've got over 200,000 jobs from 15,000+ vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
- We aggregate jobs from 15,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
- We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
- Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
- Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
- Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅
What Fellow Engineers Say