data engineer for customer data platforms

Intellias provides technology engineering services and develops customer data platforms supporting customer data, identity resolution, bookings, loyalty programs, and AI-powered customer insights. Its platforms process large-scale batch and real-time data for Expedia Group.

• Design, build, and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines using Scala and Spark;
• Develop and support Kafka/Flink-based streaming solutions;
• Build and maintain Airflow DAGs, backfills, and production workflows;
• Design data models, schemas, and source-to-target mappings;
• Implement data quality controls, validation, and monitoring;
• Troubleshoot production issues and ensure platform reliability;
• Review and validate AI-generated code and maintain engineering quality standards;
• Own systems end-to-end, including performance, cost, scalability, and reliability.

• 5+ Years of Data Engineering experience;
• Strong Scala and Apache Spark skills;
• Experience building and owning production ETL/ELT pipelines;
• Streaming experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, or similar;
• Experience with Apache Airflow;
• Comfortable with Java, Scala, Python, and configuration-heavy code;
• Strong data modeling, schema design, and source-to-target mapping skills;
• Experience with data quality, validation, and production troubleshooting;
• Strong software engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD, and versioning;
• Ability to review AI-generated code;
• Highly autonomous approach and end-to-end ownership of systems, datasets, reliability, cost, and quality;
• Nice to have: Flink expertise, ScyllaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or other NoSQL platforms, Customer Data Platform (CDP), identity resolution, loyalty, clickstream, or booking data experience, SLAs, SLOs, observability, and monitoring, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar AI-assisted development tools, awareness of spec-led development, spec-kit, and agent-skills.

• Work locations include Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Mexico, Peru, Poland, and Ukraine;
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.