Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Zeals, a rapidly growing tech company in Japan, and make a significant impact in customer acquisition and revenue growth through conversational commerce technology. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure, transforming raw data into structured formats for advanced analytics and reporting. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring data quality and efficient data flow within our data lakehouse. Zeals offers a highly flexible, inclusive work environment with competitive salaries, performance reviews, paid holidays, visa support, education opportunities, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate and interpret complex datasets
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with databases such as MySQL and BigQuery
• Knowledge of dbt is a must
• Experience with data platforms like Airflow, Dataproc, Great Expectations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• English proficiency is a must

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines to ingest data into our data lakehouse
• Implement and manage ETL processes using Google Cloud Composer, Dataproc, and dbt
• Develop data transformations within a medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold layers)
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring
• Monitor and optimize the performance of BigQuery datasets and queries
• Document processes, designs, and architectural decisions
• Design and develop a read-optimized data warehouse layer
• Troubleshoot daily reporting pipelines
• Conducting code reviews and providing mentorship to junior engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in both Python and Scala is preferred
• Japanese language proficiency at a business or native level which allows you to liaise with our primarily Japan-based users
• Understanding of cultural differences
• Knowledge and experience in chatbots, AI, marketing, and SaaS products
• Conversational Japanese is nice to have

Benefits

• Salary Range: competitive ( performance review every 6 months)
• Performance review: twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break
• Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates. You can expect full visa support from our professional HR team
• Education support: Udemy, Frontend Masters
• Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization
• For Japan residents: Work from anywhere, interim work from overseas, full flex time
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Shuffle Lunch allowance (Cross department lunch)
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free-flow beer party)