Data Engineer (PostgreSQL & Databricks)

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way.

Explore the Nortal experience!

Join our close-knit LATAM remote team: Connect through fun activities like coffee breaks, tech talks, and games with your team-mates and management.

Say goodbye to micromanagement! We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values.

Your well-being matters: Our People Care team is here from day one to support you with everything from time-off requests to wellness check-ins.

Plus, our Accounts Management team ensures smooth, effective client relationships, so you can focus on what you do best.

Ready to grow with us?

Here's what we offer you by joining us!

Competitive USD salary - We value your skills and contributions!

100% remote work - While you can work from anywhere, you're always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM!

Paid time off - Take the time you need according to your country's regulations, all while receiving your full salary. Rest, recharge, and come back stronger!

National Holidays celebrated - Take time off to celebrate important events and traditions with loved ones, fully embracing your culture.

Sick leave - Focus on your health without the stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better.

Refundable Annual Credit - Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance!

Team-building activities - Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community.

Birthday day off - Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family!

About the project:

At Nortal, we know great talent doesn't wait for job openings. That's why we're building a community of passionate professionals for future opportunities.

These proactive searches align with the profiles our trusted clients seek regularly. Join our "Future Talent" network to be among the first considered when the right opportunity arises.

With over 160 new hires every year, we are constantly expanding our team with passionate and skilled professionals who want to make an impact.

As a member of a data engineering team, you will be responsible for the design, development, integration, delivery, maintenance and support of data pipelines and applications. You'll bring experience managing and supporting Postgres and SQL Server databases, along with experience building data ingestion pipelines on the Databricks platform. We're looking for a self-motivated professional with experience designing and architecting technical solutions and the ability to quickly learn new technologies and programming languages. You will propose, develop, and support customer-facing applications, delivering hands-on solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations.

How your day-to-day work will look like:

• Architect, design, and deliver high-quality code independently, following industry best practices.
• Understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your work.
• Diagnose and fix production issues, communicating with the development lead to raise issues and anticipate potential barriers.
• Build enterprise applications at scale using expertise in computer science fundamentals, developing scalable, high-availability, high-performance components across front-end and back-end architectures.
• Seek empirical evidence through proof of concepts, tests, and external research; participate in special projects as assigned.

This would make you the ideal candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience administering RDS Postgres and Aurora databases, with an understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database administration.
• Experience with the Databricks platform, including Unity Catalog, notebooks, and pipeline creation.
• 3 years of software development experience and/or commensurate skills building commercial applications with modern software engineering principles and practices.
• Demonstrated record of contributing successfully in distributed software delivery teams using Agile/Scrum and DevSecOps practices.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (AWS, Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, SOA, Microservices, Microfrontend, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code) and other modern technologies.
• Proficiency with professional software engineering practices across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, architecture/design patterns, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

What to expect from our Talent Connection process:

• Sign up: Apply to this position and upload your resume.
• Profile review: Our team will review your profile and keep it in our talent database.
• Contact: Our team will contact you to have an interview to get to know you better and to share with you a bit more of what we are looking for.
• Knowing you better: We'd love to discuss your experience in an interview with our recruiters.
• Notification: When a suitable position opens, we'll contact you to start the selection process, having in mind that this process will be faster because we already had the first screening.
• Transparency: This process is direct and without intermediaries.

For over 25 years, we've been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.

We believe complexity doesn't have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That's why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives.

We would love to hear from you if you are eager to make an impact and join a collaborative team that values creativity and expertise.

Let's work together to shape the future of technology!

Apply now!

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