Senior Data Engineer - Remote-First, Flexible Hours, Growth

Imaginary Cloud; Portugal; Remote; EUR 39,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Remote-first company

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Imaginary Cloud in Portugal seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and optimise data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, and SQL. Work with global clients in a remote-first, human-centric environment and grow through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

You will contribute to data workloads, ensure data quality, and participate in CI/CD practices, while enjoying flexible hours and a competitive salary. Fluency in English is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working experience in Data Engineering or closely related role.
• Academic background in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, or related quantitative field
• Hands-on production experience in Databricks
• Significant experience building data workloads in Databricks, with PySpark and Delta Lake
• Strong proficiency with SQL — window functions, complex joins and query tuning
• Experience with stream ing or incremental ingestion (Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, or equivalent) and the patterns that keep it correct: idempotency, checkpointing and schema evolution.
• Data modelling for BI and analytics
• Good understanding of testing and CI/CD for Databricks workflows, alongside the softw are engineering and DevOps basics — git, code review, linters, unit tests and CI/CD pipelines are things you use daily
• Data quality practice: testing data as well as code, using pipeline expectations, dbt tests or similar
• Outstanding proficiency in using Agentic AI tools like Cursor IDE and GitHub Copilot to accelerate code development, refactoring, and complex debugging
• Analytical mind with a strong problem-solving aptitude
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product development teams
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written
• We seek team members who live in Portugal or are willing and legally qualified to live and work there

Responsibilities

• Contribute to data engineering projects for global clients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across industries to deliver scalable analytics.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, and SQL.
• Implement CI/CD practices and ensure data quality and governance.
• Mentor peers and participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark

SQL

Structured Streaming

Data modelling

Git

CI/CD

Python

Cursor IDE

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Cursor IDE

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Imaginary Cloud in Portugal seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and optimise data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, and SQL. Work with global clients in a remote-first, human-centric environment and grow through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

You will contribute to data workloads, ensure data quality, and participate in CI/CD practices, while enjoying flexible hours and a competitive salary. Fluency in English is required.