Data Engineer-Backend at Simpl · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 3 - 10 years · ₹10L - ₹50L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 30 Nov 2022

The thrill of working at a start-up that is starting to scale massively is something else. Simpl (FinTech startup of the year - 2020) was formed in 2015 by Nitya Sharma, an investment banker from Wall Street and Chaitra Chidanand, a tech executive from the Valley, when they teamed up with a very clear mission - to make money simple so that people can live well and do amazing things. Simpl is the payment platform for the mobile-first world, and we’re backed by some of the best names in fintech globally (folks who have invested in Visa, Square and Transferwise), and
has Joe Saunders, Ex Chairman and CEO of Visa as a board member.
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In
the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modelling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.
In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power
Skillset:
Workflow manager/scheduler like Airflow, Luigi, Oozie
Good handle on Python
ETL Experience
Batch processing frameworks like Spark, MR/PIG
File formats: parquet, JSON, XML, thrift, avro, protobuff
Rule engine (drools - business rule management system)
Distributed file systems like HDFS, NFS, AWS, S3 and equivalent
Built/configured dashboards
Nice to have:
Data platform experience for eg: building data lakes, working with near - realtime
applications/frameworks like storm, flink, spark.
AWS
File encoding types: Thrift, Avro, Protobuff, Parquet, JSON, XML
HIVE, HBASE

About Simpl
About
Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers a 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. It aims to empower merchants to own their customer's checkout experience. With Simpl merchants are able to provide consumers with an easy, safe, and intuitive user experience that builds a trusted relationship between the two.
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Description
We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our Data Platform team and build scalable, high-performance data platforms that power data processing, analytics, and downstream applications.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed data processing, ETL pipelines, and Big Data technologies, with hands-on expertise in Apache Spark and Python Scala.
You will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build reliable, production-grade data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL and data processing pipelines for large-scale datasets.
- Build and optimize distributed data applications using Apache Spark and Python Scala.
- Develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
- Design and manage data workflows using Apache Airflow.
- Build and operate data workloads on AWS, with strong usage of Amazon S3 for large-scale data storage.
- Work with large datasets to ensure data quality, consistency, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and other platform teams to deliver robust data solutions.
- Optimize data workflows for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve platform performance.
Requirements
Candidates who demonstrate:
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Big Data Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Scala.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale ETL pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, particularly Amazon S3.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling.
- Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of distributed data processing concepts.
- Experience working with batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with Databricks and the broader Databricks data platform.
- Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
- Experience working on large-scale data platforms handling high-volume data workloads.
- Exposure to additional AWS data services and cloud-native data architectures.
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🚨 Hiring: Data Engineer | PySpark + Python + SQL
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🔹 Experience: 5 to 9 Years
🔹 Locations: Bangalore / Hyderabad
🔹 Interview Process:
• 1st Round – Virtual
• 2nd Round – Face-to-Face (Karat Test)
🔑 Key Skills:
✅ PySpark
✅ SQL
✅ Python
✅ ETL
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🚨 Hiring: Data Engineer
🔹 Experience: 5–9 Years
🔹 Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad
🔹 Skills: PySpark, Python, SQL, ETL, CI/CD, Data Modeling
🔹 Process: L1 Virtual → L2 F2F Karat Test
🔹 F2F: Bangalore / Hyderabad Location
🔹 Positions: Immediate requirement
⚠️ Note: Candidates must be available for F2F Karat immediately after L1.
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Job Summary
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Python, ETL, Advanced SQL, CI/CD, DevOps, and Data Analytics. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience designing and developing scalable data pipelines, transforming large datasets, and supporting data-driven applications.
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will be an added advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python and SQL.
- Develop complex and optimized SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations.
- Build and maintain reliable data integration workflows across multiple data sources.
- Perform data cleansing, validation, transformation, and quality checks.
- Analyze data and provide insights to support business and technical requirements.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data engineering applications.
- Work with DevOps practices and tools to automate deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure processes.
- Troubleshoot data pipeline failures, performance issues, and production incidents.
- Optimize data processing workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Developers, and other stakeholders.
- Follow best practices for version control, testing, documentation, and deployment.
- Contribute to cloud-based data engineering initiatives, preferably on GCP.
Required Skills
- 5–7 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Strong expertise in Advanced SQL and database concepts.
- Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
- Good understanding of Data Warehousing and Data Modeling concepts.
- Experience with CI/CD practices and tools.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation, and deployment processes.
- Strong data analytics and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with large datasets and performance optimization.
- Good understanding of Git/version control and software development best practices.
Good to Have
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Exposure to GCP data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Composer, or Pub/Sub.
- Experience with containerization/orchestration technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow.
- Knowledge of cloud-based data architecture and distributed data processing.
Preferred Candidate Profile
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong ownership of data pipelines and production systems.
- Candidates who can join at short notice are preferred.
Mandatory Skills
Data Engineer, Python , ETL, GCP, Advanced SQL, Strong Data Analytics skills, CICD, Devops
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Python, ETL, SQL, CI/CD, and DevOps to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data processing solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines.
- Develop data processing solutions using Python.
- Write complex and optimized SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations.
- Build and maintain data ingestion and integration workflows.
- Implement data quality, validation, monitoring, and error-handling processes.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data engineering applications.
- Work with DevOps tools and practices for automated build, deployment, and infrastructure management.
- Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and business teams.
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Troubleshoot production data issues and ensure timely resolution.
- Follow best practices for version control, code quality, testing, and deployment.
Mandatory Skills
- Python
- ETL
- SQL
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Git / Version Control
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
We are looking for a Data Engineer with at least 1 year of hands-on experience building solutions on Snowflake. The candidate should be comfortable designing, building, and managing reliable data pipelines that move data from multiple sources into a central data platform.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading data into Snowflake
- Design scalable data models, schemas, tables, and views in Snowflake
- Develop ETL/ELT workflows using SQL, Python, or data orchestration tools
- Integrate data from APIs, databases, files, and third-party platforms
- Monitor pipeline performance, failures, data quality, and freshness
- Optimize Snowflake queries, warehouses, storage, and compute usage
- Implement incremental loads, change data capture, and scheduled workflows
- Work with engineering and business teams to understand data requirements
- Maintain documentation for pipelines, datasets, and data transformations
Requirements
- 1+ year of hands-on experience working with Snowflake
- Strong SQL skills and experience writing complex queries
- Experience building and managing ETL or ELT data pipelines
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modelling, and data quality
- Experience with Python or another scripting language
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, or similar
- Understanding of APIs, relational databases, file formats, and cloud storage
- Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance issues
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Good to Have
- Experience with dbt and Snowflake Tasks, Streams, Snowpipe, or Dynamic Tables
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, monitoring, and data governance practices
- Experience integrating ERP, finance, or operational systems
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Python, PySpark, and SQL to build scalable, high-performance data engineering solutions. You’ll architect and develop large scale, high-performance data pipelines capable of handling massive real-time and batch data volumes across multiple business systems. Databricks is the core enterprise data and processing platform for this role. You will also use Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and dbt for ELT transformations, and will contribute to designing reliable, secure, and governed data platforms that enable analytics, reporting, and AI-driven use cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale data pipelines using Python/PySpark, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.
- Develop and optimize data processing workloads in Databricks using PySpark and Spark SQL, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Develop and maintain dbt models including layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros, testing, and documentation.
- Design, develop, and maintain Apache Airflow DAGs for orchestrating reliable, scalable, and observable data pipelines.
- Design and implement data quality, observability, and governance frameworks, including automated testing, monitoring, lineage, access control, and data privacy standards.
- Partner with analytics, product, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into trustworthy datasets, and raise the engineering bar through design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Python for developing scalable, modular, and production-ready data engineering applications.
- Strong expertise in PySpark, including DataFrame API, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, partitioning strategies, joins, caching, handling data skew, and Spark performance optimization.
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks for data ingestion, transformation, processing, and optimization, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, notebooks, jobs, and Databricks-native data engineering capabilities.
- Strong experience in Databricks/Spark performance tuning, including query and job optimization, partitioning, file sizing, caching, join optimization, handling data skew, and efficient use of compute resources.
- Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, including transactional data processing, schema management, incremental data processing, and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience in developing dbt projects using layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros/Jinja, testing, documentation, and deployment best practices.
- Expertise in advanced SQL and data modelling — dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, schema evolution, and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience in developing and managing Apache Airflow DAGs, scheduling workflows, dependency management, retries, backfills, and operational monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently with business and analytics stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on exposure to Microsoft Fabric for data integration and analytics.
- Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of a development workflow.
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Domain expertise in financial services.
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Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain data transformation pipelines using java Spark
Develop and optimize large-scale/CPU intensive data processing using Apache Spark
Orchestrate workflows using Airflow
Implement data quality checks, testing, and monitoring for pipeline. Good to have exposer into managing metadata, cataloguing, and lineage
Support schema evolution, backfills, and incremental processing
Ensure pipelines meet SLAs for freshness, reliability, and performance
Expertise/working knowledge in Spark and HBase(semantic layer, virtual datasets, Reflections)
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with
HBase
Apache Spark
Experience with HBase or similar lakehouse query engines
Airflow
Understanding of data catalogs and lineage (e.g., OpenLineage, DataHub, Apache Polaris , openlineage)
Proficiency in Java
Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD
Nice-to-Have Skills
OpenTable format/Iceberg ,Apache Arrow
CDC-based analytics pipelines
Cloud platforms (AWS)
Kubernetes-based data platforms
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Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)
Technical Skills:
Python
Pyspark
SQL
ETL Aws, Azure, gcp
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled GCP Data Engineer with strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, ETL, and modern data engineering technologies. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience designing and building scalable data pipelines using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Airflow, and modern data lake technologies such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform.
- Build and optimize data processing workflows using Python and Google Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam).
- Develop and manage large-scale analytical data models in BigQuery.
- Implement event-driven data ingestion using Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Create, schedule, and monitor workflows using Apache Airflow and Autosys.
- Design and implement modern data lake architectures using Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
- Optimize query performance, storage, and compute costs in GCP.
- Ensure data quality, governance, security, and compliance across data platforms.
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Application teams to deliver scalable data solutions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve pipeline reliability and performance.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Experience in designing and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of BigQuery.
- Experience with Google Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam).
- Experience with Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow.
- Experience in job scheduling using Autosys.
- Experience with modern table formats such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, and Cloud Functions.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with Git and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Knowledge of data warehousing and dimensional modeling.
- Exposure to streaming and real-time data processing.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4–8+ years of experience in Data Engineering with hands-on expertise in GCP technologies.
Required Experience
- Strong experience in developing enterprise-grade data pipelines using Python and GCP.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Airflow.
- Experience scheduling and monitoring batch workflows using Autosys.
- Experience implementing modern data lake architectures using Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
- Strong understanding of ETL best practices, performance tuning, and data optimization.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Mandatory Skills
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Python
- ETL
- BigQuery
- Autosys
- Apache Airflow
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Google Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam)
- Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake
- SQL & Data Modeling






