Data Engineering Lead at 9fin - Series B AI-powered fintech

As Data Engineering Lead, you will own the technical direction of a platform centralizing data for the $141 trillion debt capital market. You'll lead the evolution of ingestion, orchestration, and customer-facing APIs, transforming data into a reliable product capability for top tier investment banks and asset managers globally.

• Own the production data platform architecture across AWS and GCP, ensuring operational reliability and industrializing customer-facing data feeds.
• Define the data engineering operating model, setting standards for ingestion, CI/CD guardrails, and schema contracts to accelerate product delivery.
• Act as a hands-on player-coach, spending 75% of your time building and 25% mentoring talent to reduce key-person dependency.

• Proven experience building and scaling production-grade data platforms using Python, SQL, and orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow.
• Strong track record of converting technical infrastructure improvements into measurable business outcomes like improved reliability and faster source onboarding.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in a startup or scale-up environment with the ability to manage infrastructure-as-code and incident response.

• Significant impact at a fast-growing Series B scale-up backed by Spark Capital and Highland Europe, with 400% ARR growth since Series A.
• Unique opportunity to modernize the $141 trillion debt market, moving trillions in trades from 1980s-era systems to real-time AI analytics.
• High-agency environment where you own the platform end-to-end, growing a team from 1-2 to 4 engineers over the next 18 months.