Senior Python Data & Automation Engineer - Pipelines Lead

Software Mind Americas; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Software Mind is seeking a Senior Python Data & Automation Engineer to own critical Python workflows connecting financial, CRM, first‑party website, and advertising data. You will stabilize daily operations, scale pipelines, and apply AI responsibly to accelerate delivery while protecting client data.

You will collaborate with a growing client base, shaping long‑term architecture and improving integration across CRM, data warehouses, and ad networks, contributing to a modern data platform.

Qualifications

• Advanced professional experience developing and supporting production systems in Python.
• Strong ETL/ELT, data integration, and SQL experience.
• Experience integrating with REST APIs, third‑party platforms, and heterogeneous source systems.
• Experience with AWS-hosted applications or data workloads.
• Proven ability to understand and safely modify unfamiliar or poorly documented code.
• Experience with data‑quality validation, reconciliation, exception handling, logging, and monitoring.
• Sound software engineering practices, including testing, version control, code review, and controlled deployment.
• Ability to design maintainable solutions rather than a collection of isolated scripts.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and translating operational needs into technical solutions.
• English proficiency (C1 level or higher), both written and spoken, with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Complete a structured knowledge transfer with the outgoing engineer and take ownership of critical Python workflows
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the existing Python codebase supporting paid media operations
• Build and support integrations with CRM systems, financial platforms, data warehouses, websites, and advertising networks
• Improve the separation of data ingestion, transformation, storage, and downstream outputs
• Implement data‑quality checks, reconciliation, exception handling, logging, and alerting
• Use approved AI development tools to accelerate code analysis, documentation, testing, and delivery, while protecting client data
• Identify repetitive processes that can be automated to increase team capacity
• Assess the current architecture and recommend pragmatic improvements once operations are stabilised
• Operate as a consistent, embedded member of the client team, communicating clearly with nontechnical stakeholders including the CEO and COO

Skills

Python development

ETL/ELT

SQL

REST APIs

AWS data workloads

code understanding

data quality

testing/version control

stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

Dagster

dbt

Snowflake

Salesforce

HubSpot

Job description

Software Mind is seeking a Senior Python Data & Automation Engineer to own critical Python workflows connecting financial, CRM, first‑party website, and advertising data. You will stabilize daily operations, scale pipelines, and apply AI responsibly to accelerate delivery while protecting client data.

You will collaborate with a growing client base, shaping long‑term architecture and improving integration across CRM, data warehouses, and ad networks, contributing to a modern data platform.