Data Infrastructure Team Lead

Who We're Looking For - The Team Lead & Architect  Chargeflow is at the forefront of fintech + AI innovation. Our mission is to build a fraud-free global commerce ecosystem by leveraging the newest technology—freeing online businesses to focus on their core ideas and growth. We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineering / Data Infrastructure Team Lead to guide a high-performing team in designing, scaling, and operating the robust, cost-efficient infrastructure powering our platform. This role balances hands-on architectural leadership with people leadership , and will be a key driver of reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across our data systems. The impact you’ll have • Build and evolve the data infrastructure that safeguards our clients’ revenue and powers critical product, ML, and analytics use cases. • Establish scalable engineering standards and operational practices (reliability, security, governance, and cost efficiency). • Lead and grow a team of data/infrastructure engineers while cultivating technical excellence and psychological safety. What you’ll own (Your arena) • Leadership & Mentorship Lead, mentor, and scale a team of talented data and infrastructure engineers. • Create strong execution rituals: clear ownership, high-quality delivery, feedback loops, and growth plans. • Data Infrastructure & FinOps Own the architecture and evolution of our modern data stack and platform services. • Drive cloud cost management (FinOps): cost visibility, optimization initiatives, and capacity planning. • High-Performance Engineering Oversee the design of distributed systems, real-time streaming, and batch pipelines capable of processing millions of daily transactions with minimal latency. • Define technical direction for storage, compute, and data movement patterns (event-driven + lakehouse). • Operational Excellence Champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and testing practices for infrastructure and data systems. • Establish observability standards (monitoring/alerting, SLOs, incident response, postmortems). • Partner on security compliance and data governance across the R&D organization. • Strategic Collaboration Act as the bridge between data engineering, product, data science, and core R&D teams to execute cross-functional initiatives. • Translate business goals into platform roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

Requirements: What it takes (Must-haves) • Experience: 6+ years in data platform engineering, data infrastructure, or backend engineering, including 2+ years leading/managing/mentoring engineers. • Strong software engineering: Proficiency in Python (or similar) and modern practices (clean code, CI/CD, testing paradigms). • Data architecture: Extensive experience architecting and operating scalable data lakes/lakehouses, distributed systems, and real-time event-driven architectures. • Cloud-native & IaC: Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure , plus Docker/Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform ). • Databases & storage: Strong knowledge of relational (e.g., PostgreSQL ), NoSQL, and analytical databases, including performance optimization, schema design, and cost tuning at scale. • Execution & delivery: Proven track record managing sprint planning, scoping technical projects, and delivering complex infrastructure roadmaps on time. Nice-to-haves • Advanced data stack: Apache Iceberg (Lakehouse/S3/Glue), Apache Spark optimization, and big data processing. • Streaming & messaging: Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Kafka Streams. • Modern tooling: Temporal/Dagster, dbt/DuckDB, Datadog/Grafana, Pydantic. • FinOps & governance: Spot instances/savings plans and compliance frameworks (GDPR/PCI-DSS). About Chargeflow Chargeflow is a leading force in fintech innovation, tackling the pervasive issue of chargeback fraud that undermines online businesses. We’ve built an AI-driven solution to protect merchants’ revenue at scale. Backed by $49M led by Viola Growth, OpenView, Sequoia Capital, and other top-tier investors, Chargeflow is on a product-led growth journey. We’re a tight-knit community of passionate builders, united in our mission to revolutionize eCommerce and fight against chargeback fraud.