Analytics Engineer

Taptap Send; Dubai; On-site; AED 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Taptap Send is seeking a hands-on Analytics Engineer to design, build and maintain dbt models used by Finance, Product, and Markets. You will own domain models and tackle high-priority data projects that span teams, delivering trusted answers from first principles.

You’ll collaborate with Head of Data and cross-functional partners to enable data-driven decisions. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in data roles, strong SQL, and experience with Looker/Mode.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a data role (Analytics Engineering and/or Data Science).
• Strong SQL skills and experience handling large, complex datasets.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with BI tools (Looker, Mode) and enabling self-serve analytics.
• Detail-oriented and pragmatic with a can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Own dbt models end-to-end, with tests and documentation.
• Lead high-priority, cross-functional data projects spanning multiple teams.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Compliance and Markets to model domains accurately.
• Support critical reporting and dashboards, delivering reliable datasets.
• Keep data trustworthy with tests, checks and alerts.
• Apply AI tools to improve modeling and data quality.
• Contribute to the analytics community through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

SQL

Data storytelling

Tools

Looker

Mode

dbt

Job description

About Us

We’re building the world’s leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fueling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services.

About Us

We’re building the world’s leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fueling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services. Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents and covering both the busiest and most underserved (remittance) corridors. We tapped into a massive shift - from banks to phones - bringing digital finance to places where traditional systems never reached. The next stage of growth will fuel a network of services and products especially designed to make money more accessible to diaspora communities including local cards, and additional savings and payments features. We’re growing fast, backed by world-class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation.

Here’s a Little More

• Founded by Harvard grads and 3-time founders who previously built Segovia (acquired) and GiveDirectly (>$300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO in the world)
• Backed by top investors including Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more
• Built by global top performers from Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond - we move fast, stay humble, and care deeply about our mission
• Truly global team - 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages
• Guided by our values - ownership, impact, humility, and heart - in deed, not just word

We're looking for a hands-on Analytics Engineer for our next phase of growth. You’ll design, build and maintain dbt models that teams from across the business — from Finance to Product to Markets — rely on to make decisions. As well as owning your set of domain models, you'll take on high-priority special data projects: the thorny, cross-functional problems that don't sit neatly inside one team and need someone who can dig in from first principles and deliver. If you love working in dbt, untangling messy problems, and seeing your work drive real decisions, this is the role for you. You'll report to our Head of Data, partnering closely with teams including Finance, Compliance, Treasury, Product, Data Engineering and Markets. The role is full-time — we're open to individuals in one of the following hubs: London, Dubai or NYC.

Key Responsibilities

• Own dbt models end-to-end — design, build and maintain the models in your domain, with the tests, documentation and schema coverage that keep them reliable and performant at scale.
• Lead special data projects — take on high-priority, cross-functional problems that span Finance, Compliance, Product and Markets, digging in from first principles to deliver trusted answers, owning problems end-to-end.
• Partner with teams across the business — from Product to Markets to Engineering – to ensure their domains are modelled correctly.
• Support business critical Finance and Compliance reporting — delivering the datasets behind month-end close and audit requests, and building the pipelines that make each cycle faster.
• Keep data trustworthy — build the tests, checks and alerts that surface issues before they become incidents.
• Use AI effectively — apply AI tools and agents across the modelling lifecycle, from accelerating dbt development to improving data quality.
• Contribute to our analytics community — peer-review code, share knowledge at weekly meetups, and help answer data questions from across the business.

You have

• 4+ years in a data role (Analytics Engineering and/or Data Science)
• Strong SQL skills, and comfortable working with large, complex datasets in dbt
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with modern BI tools (e.g. Looker, Mode etc.) and what it takes to enable real self-serve
• Detail-oriented and pragmatic, with a 'no task too small' attitude
• The right to work in the UK, UAE or US

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-pace context — e.g. startup or scale-up
• Experience with Python and/or R
• Experience leading cross-functional projects, or those involving big data

Taptap Values

• Impact first
• Team next
• Accept reality
• Propose solutions
• Win with grit
• Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
• Love the particular
• Own it
• Create positive energy
• Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.