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About the Role
This is a foundational engineering hire for our Data team, dedicated to data foundations and infrastructure. It directly underpins our number-one company priority, the US growth initiative, and sits across the whole data roadmap. As Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll own, uplift and maintain NALA's data transformation layer, ensuring every model is documented, tested and described for human and AI interpretation. This role ensures NALA's data foundation is ready for agentic analytics.
Responsibilities
- Own the transformation layer (dbt + Snowflake), refactoring, enforcing best practices, and evolving our data stack to a best-in-class standard
- Take ownership of streaming data pipelines (Kafka or similar) alongside batch transformation, ensuring real-time and near-real-time flows are reliable, cost-efficient and well-integrated
- Establish and enforce coding and agentic-coding standards, systematic testing and documentation as CI-enforced defaults across all data models
- Optimise warehouse performance and cost efficiency, identifying and resolving query patterns and materialisation choices driving unnecessary spend
- Build the foundation for AI-powered self-serve by ensuring models carry the semantic richness and documentation that agents need to return reliable answers
- Deploy and supervise autonomous agents against the data stack, and move our data infrastructure onto proper engineering standards: monitored, wired to incident.io and PagerDuty with escalations and SLAs, and the supporting processes documented
- Scope and resolve orchestration decisions (dbt Cloud vs Dagster) and own the infrastructure roadmap for the transformation layer
- Support and mentor analysts on analytics-engineering best practices, raising the engineering standard across the team
Requirements
- 4+ years hands-on experience with dbt (ideally fusion), expert-level, building, refactoring and maintaining production-grade transformation layers
- Track record of implementing testing, CI/CD, documentation standards and PR review workflows in dbt projects
- Experience building and owning streaming / real-time data pipeline infrastructure (Kafka or similar)
- Strong SQL, Python and data modelling skills, with a clear understanding of warehousing and modern data architecture
- Snowflake or Databricks experience, including query performance tuning and cost optimisation
- Fluent with AI-assisted development workflows (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code)
- Comfortable owning an infrastructure roadmap, assessing current state, proposing a plan and executing without step-by-step direction
- A data-engineering or software-engineering background with prior coding experience (Python, C++, etc.) before moving into dbt
- Semantic-layer experience (Cube, dbt Semantic Layer) and an understanding of how governed metric definitions sit on top of a transformation layer
- Experience with Hex or similar modern BI / notebook platforms
- Experience in fintech, payments or regulated environments where data accuracy and governance carry real business consequences
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and product analytics
Skills
- dbt
- Snowflake
- Kafka
- SQL
- Python
- Data Modelling
- Warehousing
- Modern Data Architecture
- Databricks
- AI-assisted development
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- Claude Code
- Cube
- dbt Semantic Layer
- Hex
- Experimentation frameworks
- Product analytics
Location
- UK
- US
- EU
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years hands-on experience with dbt
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays
- Birthday Leave
- Enhanced Parental Leave (16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver, 4 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver after 6 months)
- Enhanced Pension (salary sacrifice via Penfold)
- Life Insurance (3x salary cover)
- Global Workspace (WeWork access)
- Learning Budget ($1000 annually)
- Sarabi (Themed snacks and Friday lunch)
- Monthly Socials
- Free Coffee
About the Company
- NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone.
- Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025 & 2026.
- We operate two core products: NALA (consumer app for cross-border payments from UK, US, EU to Africa and Asia) and Rafiki (B2B payments infrastructure powering global giants like MoneyGram & Western Union).
- Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp, operators who've scaled world-class products.
- We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.
- At NALA, this isn't just a job. It's ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.
- Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.