Senior Data Engineer

About the role:

8am is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help design and scale the data platform that power analytics, product insights, and machine learning across the company.  In this role, you will own key parts of our data architecture, build reliable data pipelines, and partner closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to turn raw data into decision-driving insights.  You’ll also help set engineering standards, mentor teammates, and drive momentum across the team by improving the way we build, review, and operate data systems.

This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.

About us:

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.

What you'll do:

• Lead design discussions around data architecture, modeling strategy, and platform evolution
• Identify opportunities to simplify and scale the data platform
• Drive improvements to data reliability, observability, and data quality
• Establish and promote best practices for data modeling, testing, and code review
• Help the team prioritize work and balance speed with technical quality
• Develop and optimize ETL processes
• Integrate data sources across a broad product portfolio to provide stakeholders access to key information they need to excel at their job
• Mentor other data engineers
• Challenge how business use cases fit together and fit into our product
• Determine and proactively communicate future impacts of proposed or ongoing work
• Help the team mitigate any issues that arise in their product and its ecosystem
• Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting facilitating data access for our BI tools and analytical reporting
• Provide technical guidance to help Data Engineering evolve access to data platform
• Work with engineering to integrate tracking of new functionality into the data ecosystem
• Optimize the performance of business-critical queries
• Explain why the projects their team is working on have been prioritized over other projects

About you:

• 7+ years of data engineering experience 
• Experience with data warehouses and large-scale analytics systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
• Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and data platforms
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
• Experience building and maintaining relational as well as  document, key-value, and other noSQL databases
• Advanced Python & SQL skills
• Experience working with third-party APIs for data integration
• Experience with business process automation
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (or similar combination of education and experience)
• Spark and Redshift experience (PySpark preferred)
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Experience with event or streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• CI/CD experience
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.

Additional Information

The monthly gross salary range for this position is CZK 91,000 to CZK 170,000. 8am is committed to fair, objective, and non-discriminatory compensation, and actual pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

• Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Czech Republic R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles with the exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with your team in our upcoming Brno office.
• Drive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it.
• Build the Next Generation of Our Platform: Help shape the systems powering products used by more than 250,000 professionals. You’ll work on complex platform capabilities across payments, workflow automation, and AI-powered features as we expand into new professional service markets.

Benefits and Perks

We offer a competitive, locally relevant benefits package designed to support your life in the Czech Republic while giving you access to global opportunities:

• Performance bonus opportunities and employee referral rewards
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system
• Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am
• Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage

Grow Your Career

• Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development
• Clear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement

What Makes 8am Different:

• International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.
• Opportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits)
• Engaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives
• High-quality company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection
• Office spaces in Brno and Prague with opportunities to work in-person and enjoy a flexible hybrid setup

Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:

At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. 

Security advisory:

Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology.  As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices.  We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process.  All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person.  All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up. 

Applicant Data Privacy Notice:

Your personal data will be collected and retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.  Full policy linked here.