Senior Data Engineer: Remote Blockchain & NLP Pipelines

Inca Digital; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare stipend

Childcare stipend

Employee assistance resources

Job summary

Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company delivering blockchain and market analytics for exchanges, regulators, and financial institutions. We design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest diverse data sources, and apply NLP/LLM techniques to extract entities and enrich risk models.

You will collaborate across R&D, engineering, and investigations to translate intelligence needs into client-facing products.

Qualifications

• Advanced Python and SQL are required.
• Production ETL/ELT pipelines experience with an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Step Functions or equivalent).
• Hands-on with PostgreSQL/RDS and object storage (S3)
• Experience building/serving APIs (Kong OSS, FastAPI) and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Ingest data from diverse sources and turn it into production-grade APIs, dashboards, and alerts.
• Perform NLP/LLM-assisted processing over unstructured text and feed risk models.
• Model and query data across relational, object, and graph stores.
• Ensure provenance, reproducibility, and data quality across datasets.
• Collaborate with Head of R&D, engineers, data scientists, and investigations team.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Airflow/Dagster/Prefect/Step Functions

PostgreSQL/RDS

APIs (Kong, FastAPI)

Docker

Git & CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Step Functions

Kong OSS

FastAPI

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Inca Digital is a veteran-owned data and intelligence company delivering blockchain and market analytics for exchanges, regulators, and financial institutions. We design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest diverse data sources, and apply NLP/LLM techniques to extract entities and enrich risk models.

You will collaborate across R&D, engineering, and investigations to translate intelligence needs into client-facing products.