Senior Data Applications Engineer – AI-First, Remote

WPT Global; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Quarterly reviews

Bonus opportunities

Tech setup budget

Company meet-ups

Job summary

WPT Global is seeking a Senior Data Applications Engineer to join a small, all-senior data team. You will build data applications and APIs, not just dashboards, in an AI-first environment. The role covers data models, pipelines and internal tools across analytics, fraud detection and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of production software experience, deep Python and TypeScript skills, and hands-on data engineering with warehouses or lakehouses. Fully remote from the Nordic region.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software across backend and frontend.
• AI-first development experience with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
• Strong Python backend with APIs, authentication and tests.
• Strong TypeScript / React experience and data modelling skills.
• Hands-on data engineering with data warehouses or lakehouses, pipelines and dbt.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD and AWS deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build data applications end to end using AI, including data models and APIs.
• Turn data into internal tools and self-service products for teams.
• Work across Databricks workspaces, dbt projects and data pipelines.
• Shape technical direction across architecture, APIs, testing, security and perf.
• Improve codebases and workflows for engineers and coding agents.

Skills

Python backend

TypeScript / React

SQL / Data modelling

AI-first development

APIs / authentication / testing

CI/CD & cloud deployment

Containers

Tools

Databricks

dbt

AWS

Kubernetes

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

WPT Global is seeking a Senior Data Applications Engineer to join a small, all-senior data team. You will build data applications and APIs, not just dashboards, in an AI-first environment. The role covers data models, pipelines and internal tools across analytics, fraud detection and operations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of production software experience, deep Python and TypeScript skills, and hands-on data engineering with warehouses or lakehouses. Fully remote from the Nordic region.