Senior Data Engineer

Who we are

Chowdeck is an on-demand delivery service for Africa. We help vendors deliver food, medicine, and groceries seamlessly while also providing customers with a platform to order from their favourite vendors.

At Chowdeck, we deeply value growth, excellence, speed, and empathy. Our team is a tight-knit team of creative problem solvers who are smart, kind and committed to helping each other grow.

Where you come in

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help build and scale the data infrastructure that powers decision-making across Chowdeck.

You'll work closely with Product, Operations, Finance, and Engineering teams to design and maintain reliable data pipelines, improve data accessibility, and help build systems that support analytics, reporting, forecasting, and operational insights across the business.

We're looking for articulate people who are curious, empathetic, and kind and are looking to continue to grow their careers at a fast-growing tech startup that cares deeply about personal and professional development.

In this role, you'll be required to:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and workflows
• Improve the reliability, quality, and accessibility of data across the organization
• Build and optimize data warehouse architecture and data models
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Data teams to support reporting and analytics needs
• Improve observability, monitoring, and governance practices across data systems
• Optimize large-scale data processing and query performance
• Support machine learning and experimentation workflows with reliable datasets and pipelines
• Help define data engineering standards, tooling, and best practices

You're perfect for the role if you:

• Have 6+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade data systems
• Have advanced SQL skills and strong experience with Python or similar languages
• Have experience working with modern data stack technologies and cloud platforms
• Can design scalable and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines
• Can think through operational and business problems using data-driven approaches
• Care deeply about data quality, reliability, and performance
• Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and ambiguity

Beyond the paycheck, Chowdeck employees get:

• Full medical coverage
• Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth
• Housing Assistance
• Transport Assistance
• Lunch allowance

Chowdeck is an equal-opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender, or age.