Senior Data Engineer
Wrisk
IndiaPosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- 100% remote flexibility based in India
- 5+ years of software/data engineering experience required
- Market-competitive salary package
- Comprehensive employee medical coverage
Role overview
Wrisk is transforming insurance for the digital age by combining technology, deep insurance capability, and rich data to help global brands build and operate embedded insurance propositions. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will take technical ownership of domain data capabilities within Wrisk’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, working closely with the UK Data Engineering team to translate business objectives into scalable, production-grade systems and reusable tools for the shared data platform.
Responsibilities
- Own Domain Data Platforms: Take end-to-end technical responsibility for a business domain’s data platform—from early architecture design through to production delivery, monitoring, and ongoing operation
- Develop Pipelines & Services: Build reliable, idempotent ETL/ELT pipelines, backend APIs, and data services using Python, SQL, and modern software engineering practices
- Provision Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Build Shared Capabilities: Leverage Wrisk’s core data platform and orchestration frameworks, while actively contributing reusable tooling back to the shared ecosystem for other engineers to use
- Ensure Operational Excellence: Optimize data models, query performance, and system architecture while embedding observability, resilience, and automated testing into your services
- Simplify & Automate: Continuously look for opportunities to reduce technical debt, automate repetitive engineering tasks, and improve overall developer experience
- Collaborate Across Borders: Work closely with our UK Data Engineering team to translate high-level business goals into pragmatic technical solutions with minimal supervision
Requirements
- 5+ years of software/data engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating production systems
- Deep expertise in writing clean, modular Python
- Advanced SQL skills (database design, data modeling, indexing, and query optimization)
- Hands-on experience building cloud-native solutions on AWS
- Managing infrastructure declaratively via Terraform
- Skilled in creating resilient ELT/ETL orchestration workflows
- Containerizing applications with Docker
- Designing robust APIs/backend microservices
- Comfortable operating from high-level, ambiguous objectives rather than detailed specifications, making pragmatic technical trade-offs along the way
- Proactive, self-directed, and motivated by full lifecycle accountability—you don't wait for work to be assigned; you find and fix problems
Benefits
- High Autonomy & Impact: True end-to-end technical ownership, shaping system architecture, driving engineering standards, and delivering capabilities used across the organization
- Truly Flexible Remote Culture: 100% remote flexibility based in India, structured around smooth overlap with UK business hours
- Competitive Compensation & Growth: Market-competitive salary package alongside ongoing opportunities for career advancement
- Modern Developer Setup: Top-tier gear provided from day one (high-spec laptop, software licenses, and peripherals)
- Health & Well-being: Comprehensive employee medical coverage and wellness support
- Time Off to Recharge: Generous paid annual leave allowance plus standard public holidays
- Inclusive & Transparent Team: A flat, open culture where diverse perspectives are valued, bureaucracy is minimal, and your voice influences key technical decisions
Additional details
- In Month 1: You have onboarded into the Wrisk stack, understood our shared orchestration and infrastructure patterns, built strong working relationships with the UK Data Engineering team, and made your first production contributions
- In Month 3: You have taken full technical ownership of your assigned domain data platform, delivered production-ready pipelines, and contributed at least one reusable improvement back to Wrisk's shared tooling
- In Month 6 & Beyond: You are operating with high autonomy—setting architectural standards within your domain, anticipating performance bottlenecks before they hit production, and serving as a trusted technical authority who elevates Wrisk’s overall data engineering maturity
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