Tech Lead (Data Engineering)
Our Mission and Vision
At Solidgate, our mission is clear: to empower outstanding entrepreneurs to build exceptional internet companies. We exist to fuel the builders - the ones shaping the digital economy - with the financial infrastructure they deserve. We’re on an ambitious journey to become the #1 payments orchestration platform in the world.
Solidgate is part of Endeavor — a global community of the world’s most impactful entrepreneurs. We’re proud to be the first payment orchestrator from Europe to join — and to share our expertise within a network of outstanding global companies.
As our processing volume is skyrocketing, the number of engineering teams is growing too — we’re already at 14. This gives our Data Engineering function a whole new scale of challenges: not just building data-driven solutions, but creating products and infrastructure that empowers other teams to build them autonomously.
That’s why we’re launching the Data Platform direction and looking for a Tech Lead for the Data Engineering team — someone who’ll become the technical driver of the function and build a platform that provides every Solidgate team with scalable, reliable and frictionless access to data.
You’ll work side-by-side with Senior Engineering Manager of the Platform stream, and take on the technical leadership of a four-person team of data enthusiasts — with the mandate to scale the team further.
Explore our technology stack ➡️ https://solidgate-tech.github.io/
What you’ll own:
— Build the Data Platform from scratch (architecture, design, implementation, scaling)
— Introduce a Data Lake approach and Layered Architecture (bronze → silver data layers)
— Integrate streaming processing into our data engineering practices
— People & tech leadership: coach the DE team and grow the engineering culture
— Drive best-in-class practices in data quality, observability and reliability
— Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Ops teams
What you need to join:
— 5+ years in Data Engineering (1–2 years as a Tech Lead / Team Lead)
— Strong hands-on experience building data solutions in Python
— Confident SQL skills
— Experience with Airflow or similar tools
— Experience building and running DWH (BigQuery / Snowflake / Redshift)
— Expertise in streaming stacks (Kafka / AWS Kinesis)
— Experience with AWS stack: S3, Glue, Athena
— High attention to detail
— Proactive, self-driven mindset
— Continuous-learning mentality
— Strong delivery focus and ownership in a changing environment
— Confident leadership skills with a passion for people management
Nice to have:
— Background as a data analyst or Python developer
— Experience with DBT, Grafana, Docker, LakeHouse approaches
Why Join Solidgate?
High-impact role. You’re not inheriting a perfect system – you’re building one.
Great product. We’ve built a fintech powerhouse that scales fast. Solidgate isn’t just an orchestration player – it’s the financial infrastructure for modern Internet businesses. From subscriptions to chargeback management, fraud prevention, and indirect tax – we’ve got it covered.
Massive growth opportunity. Solidgate is scaling rapidly – this role will be a career-defining move.
Top-tier tech team. Work alongside our driving force – a proven, results-driven engineering team that delivers.
Modern engineering culture. TBDs, code reviews, solid testing practices, metrics, alerts, and fully automated CI/CD.
There’s never been a more exciting time to join Solidgate!