Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Obligo is a Fintech / Real Estate-Tech startup looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data team. You'll own our data architecture, pipelines, and custom Python tooling end-to-end, partnering closely with our analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to keep the platform reliable, performant, and ready to power data-informed decisions and AI across the company.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

Infrastructure & Pipelines

Own and maintain our data architecture end-to-end: S3, Databricks compute and administration, pipelines, logging, and our internal tooling

Keep the platform healthy and reliable — the data we serve feeds product decisions and customer-facing AI, so correctness and uptime matter

Integrate new data sources and maintain existing ones, handling the messy realities (format changes, awkward upstream systems like NetSuite, schema drift)

Performance & Cost

Identify bottlenecks and optimize for both compute and cost — parallelize workloads, tune table and cluster settings, and keep our Databricks spend sane as we scale. We use AI coding tools heavily to move fast here, but the engineering judgment is yours

Data Access & Reliability

Build and maintain the semantic layer that exposes our data reliably and consistently to analysts and AI tools, so the same question always returns the same trustworthy answer

Implement PII handling and row- and column-level security so sensitive data stays protected everywhere it's consumed

Requirements

Must-Have

4+ years as a data engineer or backend/software engineer working heavily with data

Strong programming skills — you write clean, maintainable code and can debug and reason about it yourself. We're enthusiastic AI users, but you do the thinking; AI helps you go faster, not skip the hard parts

Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and distributed data processing

Comfortable owning systems end-to-end with minimal supervision

Strong fundamentals in data modeling, pipelines, and SQL

Nice-to-Have

Hands-on experience with Databricks (or willingness to ramp up fast)

Experience building internal tooling / frameworks for other engineers and analysts to use

Background in Fintech, PropTech, or another data-sensitive domain

Experience with security and compliance for data platforms (PII, access controls)

About Obligo

Obligo is the simplest way to establish trust between renters and landlords worldwide. Harnessing the power of open banking, big data, and AI, Obligo determines the risk of rental transactions and eliminates the burden of security deposits. Deposit-free properties powered by Obligo are simpler to operate and much more attractive to renters.

Our R&D center is based in Tel-Aviv, and we're backed by top VCs including 83North, 10D, and Entree Capital.

Why Join Us?

High impact : You own the foundation the whole data org depends on

Real engineering : A clean problem space, cool custom Python tooling, and the autonomy to build it right

Autonomy : Work independently with the trust and support of experienced leadership

Room to grow : A clear path to expand into AI, risk, and real-time systems when you're ready

Culture : Collaborative, fast-paced environment in our Tel-Aviv beach-side office

Obligo’s Office is based in Tel-Aviv (Geula beach!).

Obligo is backed by VCs such as 83North, 10D and Entree Capital.

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