Senior Data Engineer

About the role

Rho is a modern banking platform for startups and growth-stage companies, and its data team builds data products for internal stakeholders and customers. The Senior Data Engineer joins this team to build and scale Rho's commercial banking technology, creating reusable, ML-powered systems such as an OCR pipeline, a transaction coding suggestion engine and RAG-based tools. The role lives in a hybrid environment with an office in old town Belgrade.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and own data products, reliable, scalable and well-documented pipelines and datasets that other teams can trust.
• Apply clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD to data products and ML systems.
• Build horizontal, ML-driven data products that are reused across teams.
• Implement quality checks, monitoring, alerts and SLAs for data products.
• Work with stakeholders who consume data products, treating them as customers.
• Collaborate with BI and analytics teams to turn business needs into usable data products.
• Help grow the company's catalog of data products.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering or DevOps.
• Strong software engineering practice and a "strong opinions, weakly held" mindset.
• Proven experience building and iterating data products or pipelines based on consumer feedback.
• Experience designing systems for reuse across multiple teams.

Required skills

• Workflow orchestrators such as Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or in-house HDFS solutions.
• Cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS or comparable providers; Kubernetes deployment.
• Terraform or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.
• Python and Go, strong SQL; Java experience also considered.

Nice to have

• Building a data platform or product suite from the ground up.
• Deploying ML models into production and RAG/vector database experience.
• MLflow, agents, streaming data systems, Prometheus, BI tools such as Omni.

What we offer

• Private healthcare insurance for you and your family.
• Generous PTO, lunch at work and covered parking for onsite staff.
• Learning and development budget, paternity leave.
• Hybrid work environment.