Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform that enables scalable compliance.

From identity and business verification to ongoing monitoring, our platform adapts to your risk appetite and market demands, ensuring global compliance. Customize analytics and workflows with our no-code interface.

With over 4,000 clients across fintech, crypto, transportation, trading, e-commerce, education, and iGaming—including Bitpanda, Wirex, Avis, Bybit, Vodafone, Duolingo, Kaizen Gaming, and TransferGo.

We are seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead our growing team and shape the future of Sumsub’s data platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll guide a team of talented data engineers, drive technical excellence, and build scalable solutions that power our global product. Joining us means making an immediate and visible impact on how millions of users and businesses worldwide interact with our technology.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leading and managing a team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Designing and developing scalable and efficient data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integration solutions to support data ingestion, processing, and storage needs.
• Ensuring data quality and reliability by implementing data validation, data cleansing, and data quality monitoring processes.
• Optimizing database performance by tuning queries, implementing indexing strategies, and monitoring and analyzing system performance metrics.
• Establishing and enforcing best practices and standards for data engineering, including data modeling, data architecture, and coding practices.
• Providing technical leadership in evaluating and selecting appropriate tools, technologies, and platforms for data engineering projects.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define data strategies, implement data governance policies, and ensure data security and compliance.

About You:

• Proven experience in a lead role in data engineering, managing and guiding a team of data engineers.
• Strong technical proficiency in data engineering technologies, such as Apache Airflow, ClickHouse, ETL tools, and SQL databases.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, data integration, and data warehousing concepts.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in data engineering, such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Knowledge of AWS is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Solid project management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple data engineering projects concurrently.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation in compliance with your professional expertise.
• Working with a product that matters. Our technology helps to protect millions of users and lots of online services worldwide.
• International project. Our team works from offices in Berlin, Limassol, London, and Miami, our customers are spread from Mexico and the USA to Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore.
• Remote first company – work from anywhere in the world.
• Paid vacation and sick leave.

The hiring stages: TA screening -> Hiring Manager Interview -> Technical Interview -> Final Interview.

Sounds like a great opportunity for your career development? Then go ahead and apply!

We are a global community of innovators, creators, and thinkers, and we believe that diversity fuels our innovation. Sumsub is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Join us in shaping the future inclusively.