Senior Data Engineer - Ezra

Who is Ezra? 

Ezra provides B2B digital lending solutions for emerging markets in partnership with mobile and digital wallet operators and financial service providers. Ezra supports 24 operations in 23 countries, across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Our key office locations are in Nairobi, Kenya and Dubai, UAE. 

Our flagship products are Advance Credit Service (ACS), Nano and BNPL. 

• ACS is an airtime or data advance offered to prepaid mobile subscribers at the point of low credit. 
• Nano is a micro cash advance offered to mobile wallet users on demand. 
• BNPL facilitates payment installments for products and services 

As a FinTech company, our business is entirely technology and data driven, from determining subscriber eligibility, generating relevant offers, managing risk, loan issuance, recovery, optimizing performance and reporting, reconciliation and billing. 

Each day we process approximately 21M loan requests and 1.4 TB of data across our markets. This process needs to be robust, reliable and secure. 

But it doesn’t end there. We’re exploring new ways of using our platform and transactional data to improve our products and develop new product opportunities. 

The Data Engineering team

As an integral part of the Credit Risk team, the data engineering team is mainly focused on data-related initiatives. The team will have defined ownership and responsibility with KPIs tied to Ezra’s success.

Projects include:

• CDR Processor - To own Ezra’s raw CDR data processing systems.
• Revenue Assurance Tooling - To own our revenue assurance reporting capabilities with a full set of reports in all markets.
• Profiling intelligence - Improve our profiling and credit risk capabilities by exploring ways to exploit various data sets. Emphasis on experimentation, speed, reliability, and automation. To help devise new tools and products in this space. Exploring new opportunities in prediction such as churn prediction and capacity planning.
• Reporting - Work with Ezra’s Analytics and BI teams to automate various reports on Tableau and other visualization tools.

About the Role

The Senior Data Engineer will be reporting to the Data Engineering Team Lead.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Developing data processing pipelines
• Participate in the design, implementation, and release of data science initiatives ● Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, and documented software
• Collaborate effectively in English, with local and remote peers
• Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and initiatives

Requirements | What we are looking for

Essential Experience

• Working proficiency with Python or any other programming or scripting language (in addition to SQL or R)
• Advanced working proficiency with any RDBMS, including deployment and performance optimizations.
• Experience with GIT, automated testing and CI/CD
• Being familiar with the Linux environment as a user and developer (Debian is a plus). ● Minimum 5+ years working experience

Desired experience

• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL database
• Experience with software development best practices - include handling and logging errors, monitoring the system, building fault-tolerant pipelines, understanding how to scale up, addressing continuous integration
• Knowledge of database administration
• Working proficiency in Java/C++ is a plus
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Modeling and data science is a plus
• People management skills are a plus

Sounds like you? Apply today!