Staff Data Engineer

**About Horizons**:
At Horizons, we're building the **infrastructure to power borderless teams**. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

**About the role**

**_ Remote - APAC_**

The Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining Horizons Data Platform and turns data into actionable insights, dashboards and reports.

**Your Main Mission**:

- Build a data platform from scratch.
- Design a data analytics and reporting strategy.
- Define and document processes around data processing, BI, reporting.
- Implement data warehouse, data pipelines and data analytics solutions.
- Build actionable reporting and dashboards for various Horizons department.
- Define the roadmap to continue evolving the data platform.
- Hire and train other data engineers.
- Ensure highest quality and accuracy of data and simplicity of data flows.
- Optimize storage and I/O for performance and cost efficiency.
- Advocate a data-oriented culture within the team and the entire company.
- Coach, mentor, and spread the word about our best practices inside and outside of Horizons.

**Your Day-to-Day**:

- Work in a team of talented individuals and be a Technical Lead for other Engineers.
- Daily standup practice to keep everyone aligned and supported in their role.
- Decide your priorities and the technical direction of the team.
- Allocate time to learning and growing your skills as well as the skills of the other Data Engineers.

**What you bring**:
**Experience**:

- 7+ years experience in the Software industry.
- 3+ years experience in a Data Engineer role.
- Experience in building data projects from scratch.
- Experience in a structured data analytics and BI department.
- Experience communicating with C level.
- Strong experience in Python and data analytics tools such as Jupyter, Panda, visualization tools.
- Working experience in Power BI or Tableau.
- Strong SQL and database management skills.
- AWS knowledge.
- Built and deployed Data Warehouse or Data Lake, Data pipelines in production.
- Knowledge in various ETL solutions.
- Nice to have: Experience in the Financial or HR industry.
- Nice to have: Experience in Machine Learning.

**Soft skills**:

- You want to be part of making a difference in the remote employment space and maybe have remote work experience yourself.
- You can solve complex problems with simple solutions.
- You're a strong team player but can also work independently.
- You take ownership in what you do and always look for improvements.
- You set high standards for others and for yourself.
- You enjoy learning and teaching others.
- You can work asynchronously and have experience working remote.
- You have good presentations skills and documentation habits.
- You write and speak fluent English. Chinese is a +. Additional languages are a bonus.

**What benefits we offer**:

- Join an early-stage startup, on an incredible trajectory, with a diverse team of passionate individuals located across the world.
- Work from where you want: from one of our awesome offices, from home, remotely.
- Choose your hardware and your tools, we'll buy them.
- Regular team events to bring our people across locations together.
- Paid travel and accommodation for remote team members.
- Infinite paid annual leaves.
- Learning & Development budget.
- Strong people management and personal development culture.
- Transparent career path and growth opportunities.

**What it's like working at Horizons**:
**Our service & product**. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

**Our amazing team and environment**. Working at Horizons means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

**How to apply**:
Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.

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