Data Engineer
3 to 5 years of experience
About Setu
India's economic infrastructure needs a complete overhaul. Today our digital economy rides on rickety monolithic systems built in the mid-90s. It takes months to do a simple bank integration and launch a fintech product. This inefficiency cannot continue. If our economy has to grow, we need killer API infrastructure for financial services that rivals the likes of Stripe and AWS.
At Setu, we are fixing this for good, by abstracting away the complexity of working with legacy financial infrastructure and replacing it with a developer platform that offers clean, high-performance API bundles to embed finance into any application. So that developers can do what they do best, build amazing products that improve people's lives.
Importance of the role
Setu is building fintech infrastructure at scale. We're strengthening our data platform to power revenue analytics, data science workloads, and product insights across the company. We need a software engineer who understands data systems - someone who can build robust, production-grade pipelines and models.
What will you do at Setu
- Build, maintain, and redesign reliable, scalable data pipelines and reporting tables, primarily using DBT and OLAP databases (preferably ClickHouse, open to others).
- Collaborate with business, product, and DS teams to understand needs and translate them into data architecture
- Develop production-ready data models that drive business insights and analytics.
- Accountable for data cataloging, metadata management, and overall platform hygiene.
- Start to take ownership of existing platform and pipelines and proactively improve architecture and reliability.
- Work on operational tasks: monitoring, scheduling, alerting, and documentation.
- Stay hands-on with Python, SQL, and DBT for day-to-day engineering.
- Build and maintain real-time/batch data pipelines that can consolidate and clean up usage analytics.
- Own data quality and reliability for critical datasets - define and maintain SLAs, manage retention policies, and monitor consumption patterns
- Continually learn and adopt new solutions for Data Engineering.
- Work cross-functionally with Data and Product teams; communicate clearly for shared goals.
Who is the right fit
- 3+ years of practical experience building and maintaining analytics/reporting pipelines.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on with DBT and OLAP DBs (ClickHouse preferred, others like BigQuery/Redshift also fine).
- Production experience: testing, CI/CD, monitoring, debugging, on-call
- Willingness to learn new technologies (pipelines, data catalogs, streaming).
- Ability to independently debug issues and proactively improve processes.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Open mindset to experiment and grow into MLOps.
- Detail-oriented and passionate about consistently high-quality deliverables
- Tech Stack: Python, SQL, DBT, ClickHouse/OLAP DBs
- Good to have: Airflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka or other streaming platforms
Nice To Have:
- Experience with streaming solutions (Kafka, Wrapstreaming, or similar).
- Exposure to workflow/orchestration tools: Airflow, Flink, or Spark.
- Understanding of data quality, privacy, and governance best practices.
Why Setu
We will spare no efforts to ensure that Setu empowers you to do the most important and impactful work of your career
- Opportunity to work closely with the founding team who built and scaled public infrastructure such as UPI, GST, Aadhaar, etc.
We care deeply about your growth. So we work hard to provide you with
- A fully stocked library and unlimited book budget.
- Tickets to conferences and industry events.
- Learning sessions where we invite both team members and external experts to teach you something new.
- Learning and development allowance that gives access to subscriptions, courses, certifications, music classes, and much more. Grow, learn, and improve with Setu!
- Kick-ass benefits include comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, personal accident and term life insurance, access to mental health counsellors, extraordinary coffee, and a beautiful office with lots of solid wood and natural light.
- We work hard to make sure our team is diverse and varied. We interview and hire purely on merit, skill, and competenceeverything else is irrelevant.
Our core DNA:
Our culture codeHow We Move, defines the behaviors we expect from our people. When you display any of the six culture code elements, you demonstrate Every Day is Game Day. The six elements of our culture code
- Take the shot: You decide fast and deliver right.
- Sign your work like an artist: You master what you do and take pride in it.
- Be the Sherpa: You lead your crew on every expedition.
- Be the CEO of what you do: You own it and make things happen.
- Care with tough love: You empower others with trust, respect, and openness.
- Own tomorrow: You innovate for the customer and beyond.
Join us if you want to be part of a company that's building infrastructure that will directly impact financial inclusion and improve millions of lives. No cashbacks, no growth-hacks, no gimmicks. Just an audacious mission, and an obsession with craftsmanship in code.
