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Data Engineer

Property Finder Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 01 Mar 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job: Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005, Property Finder has evolved into a leading technology platform across multiple countries in the MENA region, offering advanced tools and a superior user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers. As a recognized emerging unicorn in the Middle East, we have expanded our operations into Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. With over 600 dedicated professionals across 5 regional offices, we facilitate over 14 million visits monthly, cementing our position as a proptech powerhouse.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to enhance our data engineering capabilities. In this role, you will develop and maintain sophisticated data solutions, building data pipelines in both batch and real-time scenarios. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build self-service data layers and ensure data architecture aligns with broader business strategies, while upholding the highest standards of data quality.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement real-time data pipelines in Cloud.
  • Design and implement complex ETL solutions for large datasets.
  • Optimize and fine-tune SQL and/or Python code for performance.
  • Design and maintain data models for efficient storage and retrieval.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data pipeline performance.
  • Build and maintain self-service datasets to accelerate data democratization efforts.
  • Contribute to initiatives for managing and optimizing infrastructure.
  • Implement best practices for version control and collaboration in Terraform.

Essential Experience:

  • 7+ years of experience as a Data Engineer.
  • Experience with pub-sub, queuing, and streaming frameworks such as AWS Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, SNS.
  • Experience in real-time processing engines like Apache Flink, Apache Spark, etc.
  • Proficiency in programming languages like Java/Scala and Python.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT, batch, and streaming data processing pipelines.

Other Desired Experience:

  • Familiarity with modern cloud data warehousing, data lake solutions like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift.
  • Experience with AWS services (S3, DMS, Glue, Athena, EKS, etc.).
  • Proven experience with data warehousing and dimensional data modeling guidelines and best practices.
  • Familiarity with ETL tools (FiveTran, DBT, Airbyte, etc.) and orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, AWS Step Functions).
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
  • Experience with data stores like MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Aurora.
  • Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, QuickSight, PowerBI, etc.).
  • Experience with real-time analytics solutions like Clickhouse, Rockset, Pinto, or Druid.

Language Requirements: Not specified

Property Finder values a culture where creators are encouraged to move quickly, take risks, and find ways to contribute in a fast-growing, talent-centric organization, ensuring personal and company growth.

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About Property Finder

Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005 as a magazine (Al Bab World), Property Finder today is a single technology platform and brand across multiple countries in the MENA region. We offer the most advanced tools and best-in-class user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers.

Benefits at Property Finder

    A chance to work in an environment where creators are empowered to shape their role, be bold, fail fast, and push their potential. The company values diversity, brings together talented individuals from various backgrounds, fosters innovation and collaboration, and prioritizes work-life balance.