Senior Data Applications Engineer - AI-First & Remote

WPT Global; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Quarterly reviews

Bonus opportunities

Fully remote role

Company meet-ups

Tech setup budget

Job summary

WPT Global is seeking a Senior Data Applications Engineer to join our tight, all-senior data team. You’ll help build data models, pipelines and applications that power analytics, fraud prevention and internal tooling.

We operate AI-first; coding agents contribute a large portion of the code while we focus on architecture, testing, guardrails and safe, scalable AI in production. You’ll transform data into practical apps, APIs and self-serve tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production software across backend and frontend.
• Strong AI-first development experience using tools such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
• Deep Python backend experience, including APIs, authentication and testing.
• Strong TypeScript / React experience.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Hands-on data engineering with warehouses or lakehouses, pipelines and dbt.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD and cloud deployment (AWS preferred).
• Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge designs and propose better solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build data applications end to end using AI, from data models and infrastructure through to APIs and user interfaces.
• Turn data into internal tools, APIs and self-service products for teams across the business.
• Work across Databricks workspaces, dbt projects and data pipelines.
• Shape technical direction across application architecture, APIs, data modelling, testing, security and performance.
• Review AI-generated code, identify weaknesses and turn recurring issues into automated checks and guardrails.
• Improve codebases and workflows so engineers and coding agents can work more effectively.

Skills

AI-first development

Python backend

TypeScript / React

SQL / data modelling

Data engineering

Containers / CI/CD / AWS

Code review / guardrails

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Kubernetes

Claude Code / Codex / Cursor

AWS

Job description

WPT Global is seeking a Senior Data Applications Engineer to join our tight, all-senior data team. You’ll help build data models, pipelines and applications that power analytics, fraud prevention and internal tooling.

We operate AI-first; coding agents contribute a large portion of the code while we focus on architecture, testing, guardrails and safe, scalable AI in production. You’ll transform data into practical apps, APIs and self-serve tools.