Data Engineer – Kifiya Financial Technologies

Information Technology, Science and Technology

Kifiya Financial Technologies

Kifiya is a Digital Finance and Payment Services’ Provider, delivering customer centric products to simplify transactions.  Kifiya leverages innovative technology to build and enable distribution channels that make financial and non-financial services affordable and accessible. The company’s services allow financial institutions, corporates, NGOs and government institutions to deliver their services to customers more efficiently, and for these consumers to easily access and make the transactions to receive basic services.  Kifiya is an Ethiopian owned company that works with partners in the private sector, Development partners, including Master Card Foundation, to increase financial inclusion and services. Our office is in Addis Ababa and other regions, Kifiya is a growing company with over 800 employees.

At Kifiya we value our people, our Human Capital. We offer an innovative and invigorating work environment to enable our people to exercise their talents and grow personally and professionally along with the company. We maintain a professional, yet friendly, environment from which we contribute to our vision of ‘improving the lives of people by making transactions simple, affordable, and within reach’. Our people enjoy opportunities for development and a real chance to make a difference every day.

●     Design, build, evaluate, test, deploy and maintain our data pipelines on AWS and private cloud  servers.

●     Refine our best practices of Data Engineering

●     Contribute significantly to the product development strategy through data insights.

●     Evaluate the performance of data pipelines systems against business objectives.

●     Deploying microservices with CI/CD

●     Writing readable code, create documentation for existing code, and refactor the previously written

 code into a readable state

●    3 years experience in working with data pipelines on large-scale datasets in  production.

●    effective communicator, a team player and avid learner.

●     BSC University degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering preferably masters.

●     3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer

●     Advanced Python Experience

●     Advanced SQL Experience

●     Experience with Git

Skills and Knowledge:

  • problem solver, detail-oriented and self-motivated.
  • Let data inform your thinking rather than relying on gut feeling.
  • Thrive working with ambiguity and believe in lean experimentation.
  • Effective communicator, a team player and avid learner.

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