Intermediate Data Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment

Full-time Other-General
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Location
cape town, city of cape town metropolitan municipality, South-Africa
Posted
June 16, 2026

Job Description

Intermediate Data Engineer - Exciting Cape Town Fintech. We're helping a South African fintech that's reshaping digital commerce with QR payments, digital vouchers, loyalty programmes, and store cards. Their platform enables seamless, rewarding experiences for consumers while helping merchants process transactions, understand customers, and grow through actionable insights.

What you'll do:

  • Build and maintain scalable AWS-based ETL pipelines (Glue, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions, APIs)
  • Ensure data quality, reliability, and governance across all pipelines
  • Work with analysts and data scientists to deliver BI-ready datasets and dashboards
  • Automate monitoring, alerts, and data workflows to drive efficiency
  • Optimise performance, cost, and scalability of the data platform

What we're looking for:

  • 3-5 years' experience in Data Engineering or similar
  • Strong Pyt...