Data Engineer

PLP Group; India; Hybrid; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical insurance with dependents coverage

Rewards & Recognition system

Growth opportunities

Job summary

A leading payment innovation firm seeks a Data Engineer to enhance their payments data platform. This role involves building and maintaining reliable data pipelines and ensuring data integrity across systems. The successful candidate will work with cutting-edge AI tools and be part of a high-velocity team. This position promises competitive salary, medical insurance, and opportunities for personal and professional growth in a dynamic sector in India.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines.
• Proficient in managing databases for performance and scalability.
• Ability to implement monitoring and alerting across data systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable data pipelines.
• Design ETL/ELT pipelines for high-volume transaction data.
• Ensure data integrity and prevent bottlenecks in production.

Skills

Data pipeline design

ETL/ELT systems

Database performance tuning

Data observability

AI tools usage

Job description

Software Engineering - Functional Structure · CellPoint Digital India LLP · Full-time

Join CellPoint Digital: Shape the Future of Payments with Us!

At CellPoint Digital, we’re revolutionizing the way businesses in the air, travel, and hospitality sectors manage their payments.

With our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, we’re turning payments into a strategic advantage, helping clients optimize their payment experience to boost profits, maximize approvals, lower costs and take control of their payment, resulting in more money to the bottom line.

We believe payments should be a strategic asset, delivering financial, customer, and operational value. Our vision is to unify the payment ecosystem, opening up a world of opportunities for leading brands in the air, travel, and hospitality industries. We transform the payment supply chain from a cost center into a profit engine, turning every transaction into an opportunity for growth and competitive advantage.

At our core, we're innovators and problem-solvers united by five key values: Mission First, Ownership, Trust & Transparency, Driven, and One Team. We're ambitious professionals who embrace accountability and transform payments together.

Our diverse community spans the globe, with hubs in Copenhagen, Dallas, Dubai, London, Miami, Pune, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Mexico, and Singapore, along with remote team members worldwide. We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences that make our team extraordinary.

Join us as a Data Engineer (Payments / Orchestration) on our mission to turn payments into possibilities!

You will own the foundation of our payments data platform, ensuring that transaction data is reliable, consistent, and production-grade from ingestion through consumption.

This role is responsible for building and maintaining high-quality data pipelines, enforcing data contracts, and ensuring event integrity across the system.

This is not a reporting role. You are responsible for making sure the data exists, is correct, and can be trusted at scale.

We are a high-velocity team. You are expected to leverage AI tools to accelerate development, analysis, and problem-solving.

How You Will Make an Impact

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines

Design and operate ETL / ELT pipelines that process high-volume transaction data

Ensure data is delivered accurately and on time across all downstream systems

Ensure database performance and reliability

Manage and optimize databases for performance, scalability, and uptime

Prevent bottlenecks and ensure systems can handle production load

Enforce data contracts and schema consistency

Define and enforce schemas across services and pipelines

Ensure event integrity and prevent breaking changes across systems

Improve data reliability and observability

Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging across data systems

Detect and resolve data issues before they impact the business

Enable event traceability and consistency

Ensure events can be traced end-to-end across systems

Support debugging and root cause analysis for data discrepancies

Raise the bar on engineering velocity

Leverage AI tools like OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and Claude (or equivalent) to accelerate development and debugging

Improve speed of delivery without compromising reliability

Skills you will have fine-tuned

Designing and operating production-grade data pipelines

Building scalable ETL / ELT systems for high-throughput event data

Managing dependencies, failures, and recovery strategies

Database performance and system reliability

Tuning databases for performance and cost efficiency

Designing systems that remain stable under load

Schema design and data contract enforcement

Creating robust schemas that evolve safely over time

Preventing downstream breakages through strong contract discipline

Data observability and incident response

Implementing monitoring systems that surface issues early

Event-driven architecture and data consistency

Ensuring consistency across distributed systems

Building traceability into event flows for auditability and debugging

AI-accelerated engineering workflows

Using AI tools to generate, review, and optimize pipeline code

Improving debugging speed and system understanding with AI assistance

Continuously refining how AI is used to increase output and code quality

You appreciate working with managed services and serverless architecture

You naturally pay attention to detail

You are eager to bring your unique talents and authenticity to the CellPoint Digital community

You're constantly curious and a lifelong learner

You approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset

What's in it for you

We offer you the opportunity to be an innovator, challenge the status quo, and redefine the payments category

Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up

Medical insurance with coverage for dependents (parents, spouse, children)

Rewards & Recognition system

Opportunity for personal and professional growth in a dynamic industry

What makes CellPoint Digital a leader in the payment landscape isn’t just our technology - it’s our people and how we work together. We’ve built a global community where diverse talents and perspectives unite to create innovative solutions.

When you join us, you become part of something bigger: a collaborative culture that crosses borders and disciplines, bringing out the best in every team member to deliver breakthrough results for our clients and partners.

Together, we are transforming the payments industry - challenging, supporting, and inspiring one another in the process.

Please note, we retain applicant data for 12 months for recruitment purposes and future opportunities, after which it is securely deleted. At CellPoint Digital we are committed to be globally compliant with robust data protection.