Senior Data Engineer (w/m/d)

TL;DR Senior Data Engineer. Build our data foundation from v1 -> v10. Join the early core team of experienced entrepreneurs (scaled to millions of users, $100m+ exits). Build the future of tax & accounting with AI. Architect our data warehouse, build resilient pipelines, and enable our finance stack. Grow into leadership as we expand across countries. Above-market pay + meaningful equity. THE OPPORTUNITY How taxation, accounting and payroll work today is a pain for everyone. Still every business must do it continuously. It is the backbone that our economy runs on. Enabled through AI, we are turning this often-painful process into a radically simple experience for our customers, so they can focus on what matters to them: growing their business. ABOUT US We are a team of experienced entrepreneurs who have scaled businesses to 10s of millions of users, 10s of millions in revenue, multiple countries, and 9-digit exits - and we are just getting started. We are backed by leading venture investors and expanding rapidly. THE ROLE As our first Data Engineer, you’ll be a core part of building the data architecture behind Skalar. We are past the initial founding phase, but we are still very, very early - meaning pretty much everything you touch will involve greenfield building. While we provide a world-class professional service to our customers, data is our foundation. Your work will allow our future data analysts and scientists to shine in their work. WHAT YOU’LL OWN - 0 → 1 and Beyond: Architect and build our greenfield data warehouse from scratch; take data infrastructure end-to-end. - Core Data Pipelines: Build resilient ETL/ELT pipelines to fetch, clean, and transform massive amounts of financial data from messy third-party APIs and integrations. - Integrity & Security: Establish rigorous data governance, quality checks, and security protocols to ensure absolute data integrity for highly sensitive financial & employee information. - Leadership: Hire and mentor junior eng