Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & APIs

Leading Path Consulting; Chantilly; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Paid time off (PTO)

11 paid holidays

401K contribution

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting is seeking a Data Engineer to design and develop scalable backend services and robust data pipelines. The role blends backend engineering with data workflow development to manage complex data environments.

You will contribute to modular service design, data modeling, and API-rich pipelines within an Agile team, promoting efficiency, scalability, and innovation across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, training, or experience.
• Minimum five years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and data ingestion solutions.
• Perform data modeling, data mapping, and large-scale file manipulation.
• Collaborate across disciplines in an Agile environment with minimal supervision.
• Drive innovation and process improvement with a hands-on development approach.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.

Skills

NodeJS

Python

APIs & microservices

Distributed systems

ETL workflows

NoSQL datastores

API management

Elastic

RabbitMQ

Graph Databases

Graph Query Languages

Cloud architecture

AWS Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline

Tools

NiFi

Flask

Claude Code

Codex

NemoClaw

Aider

Kiro

Gemini CLI

OpenCode

MongoDB

Job description

Leading Path Consulting is seeking a Data Engineer to design and develop scalable backend services and robust data pipelines. The role blends backend engineering with data workflow development to manage complex data environments.

You will contribute to modular service design, data modeling, and API-rich pipelines within an Agile team, promoting efficiency, scalability, and innovation across projects.