A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app. Backed by GV and IVP.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build, operate, and continuously improve the data infrastructure that powers analytics and business intelligence across Tala's global markets. In this individual contributor role, you will take ownership of Tala's data synchronization pipelines, ensuring that data from our market-level databases is reliably captured, processed, and delivered to Snowflake for downstream analytics and business use. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of experience in backend engineering or data engineering, ideally supporting consumer-scale applications
- At least 2 years of hands-on professional Python experience
- Proven experience independently building, operating, and improving production-grade data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with change data capture (CDC) and stream processing technologies such as Kafka, Amazon MSK, AWS DMS, or comparable tools
- Strong proficiency in Apache Spark, particularly Spark Structured Streaming
- Experience with modern data lakehouse architectures and table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi, as well as Parquet
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About Tala
Tala is the AI-native credit infrastructure that connects global capital to the global majority. We combine proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. To date, Tala has distributed more than $9 billion in capital to more than 14 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, building the definitive contextual dataset on thin-file borrowers in emerging markets. Tala is now converting that foundation into shared infrastructure that partners, capital providers, and ecosystems can build on.
The company has been named to the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies twice, CNBC Disruptor 50 for five years, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for ten years running.
Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.
Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build, operate,...
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