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.
What you'll do
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)
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
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.