Senior Data Engineer, Billie
+ Virtual Shares Incentive Program
2+ days a week in office
Buy Now, Pay Later payments for business
Be an early applicant
Buy Now, Pay Later payments for business
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Virtual Shares Incentive Program
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify purchasing for all companies and open up new opportunities for growth.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a strong blend of deep technical skills, architectural vision, and leadership qualities
- Extensive experience (typically 5+ years) as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong focus on data-intensive systems
- Proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale data processing systems, including significant experience with both streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Kinesis) and batch processing frameworks
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one primary language (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Java, Scala), comfortable working across different languages and paradigms (including SQL)
- Demonstrated ability to design robust, scalable, and maintainable data architectures in a cloud environment (AWS or GCP preferred)
- Experience leading technical projects and making critical design decisions
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex requirements and devise effective solutions
- Experience deploying and managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience or strong interest in mentoring other engineers
Desirable
- Deep expertise specifically with Apache Flink for complex stream processing
- Advanced knowledge of cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and data lakes
- Experience managing large-scale cloud deployments across services (e.g., compute, storage, networking, databases)
- Experience in productionizing machine learning models and collaborating with Data Scientists (e.g., using tools like Metaflow, Sagemaker, MLflow, Vertex AI)
- Expertise with modern data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) and data transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt, SQLMesh)
- Experience with data modeling, data governance, and data quality frameworks
What the job involves
- Billie is looking for a seasoned and versatile Senior Data Engineer to provide technical leadership and expertise within our data platform team
- This role is pivotal in shaping the future of data engineering at Billie, impacting critical systems like our ML-powered risk assessment engines and the entire data ecosystem that fuels our growth
- You will tackle complex challenges across both real-time streaming and batch processing domains
- As a senior member of the team, you will not only contribute hands-on but also guide architectural decisions, mentor other engineers, and champion best practices
- You'll work closely with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and product managers to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and performant data infrastructure that meets diverse business needs
- Lead the design, implementation, and operation of complex data solutions, encompassing both real-time streaming (using technologies like Kafka/Flink) and batch processing systems
- Architect and evolve Billie's overall data platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
- Drive technical direction and establish best practices within the data engineering team
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to translate requirements into robust and scalable data architectures and solutions
- Evaluate, prototype, and recommend new technologies and approaches to keep our data platform modern and efficient
- Champion high standards for system reliability, performance, monitoring, testing, and alerting across all data systems
- Ensure rigorous adherence to data privacy regulations, security protocols, and industry standards
- Participate actively in architectural reviews and technical discussions, influencing engineering-wide standards
Our take
Buy Now, Pay Later(BNPL) options have exploded in popularity in recent years, with companies such as Klarna and Clearpay providing an additional line of credit to customers allowing them to split the cost of their purchases over several installments. Billie is a BNPL built for business transactions, using machine-learning driven risk models to responsibly finance B2B purchases.
With over 100,00 customers processing more than €750 million on its platform, Billie does not face much competition in its market. While BNPL firms like Afterpay and Klarna could theoretically move into the B2B space, they are specialised in B2C financing and lack Billie's data on the B2B sector. Billie also boasts a range of features designed specifically for intra-company sales such as instant verification, invoicing tools and business payment options which give it a large advantage against any new rivals.
Billie has raised a significant amount of funding from investors, most recently in a 2021 Series C round. Additionally Its 2022 integration with Klarna, allowing companies with a Klarna installation to swiftly switch over to Billie's payment options for B2B sales has removed a major roadblock to its future expansion. This move, alongside its entrance into more markets in Europe, will likely speed the company's ascension to Unicorn status and solidify its market lead in the BNPL space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Jul 2019
$34.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $149.6m
Company benefits
- Flexibility first: We come to the office for important events, but do not have a permanent office presence. Our teams decide how to get the best results
- 30 days vacation per year and 5 extra paid days to look after sick children
- Virtual Share Program
- German language courses from different language levels free of charge
- One-off relocation bonus to make your move easier
- Reimbursement of travel expenses and discount on local public transport in Berlin with the BVG
- Individual training budget of 1,000 euros for courses, conferences and more every year
- Free gym access, weekly yoga classes, healthy snacks, cereals, drinks and more
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Aiga Senftleben
(General Counsel)Previously worked on the Legal Counsel at eBay and Paypal. Also worked at Funding Circle Deutschland as a General Counsel and is now a member of the Digital Finance Forum at the Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)
Christian Grobe
(MD)Graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a Ph.D. in Political Science. Previously co-founded Funding Circle/Zencap where they served as the Managing Director. Also Worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
Dr. Matthias Knecht
(Co-CEO)Previously co-founded Funding Cirlce/Zencap where they served as Managing Director. Also worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
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