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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Aghanim'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Aghanim

- **Company:** Aghanim
- **Location:** Belgrade, Serbia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aghanim/b977c971-cd90-404d-9b12-99f26f3df6fa

## Job description

Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for video games.

Mobile games have traditionally depended on app stores for distribution, payments, and player relationships. We believe there is a better way. Aghanim helps game studios build direct relationships with players, sell directly, and build their future on their own terms. Today, more than 100 games worldwide are already building this future with Aghanim.

Our team brings together people across Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Beijing, London, Lisbon, Belgrade and other locations around the globe, with deep expertise in gaming, fintech and technology. We move quickly, keep communication direct, and focus on getting things done. We believe the best people thrive when they have autonomy, ownership, and a stake in the company's success.

We are looking for a senior, hands-on data professional to help define how analytical data should be structured, governed, and consumed across our business. This role sits at the intersection of product analytics, data governance, analytical modeling, and platform efficiency. The person in this role will be responsible for building the right abstraction layers in BigQuery, reducing reliance on raw-table querying, and creating trusted, reusable datasets for analytics, AI systems, and key reporting workflows. The role will work closely with Customer Success, Product, AI/ML, Engineering, and Finance, with a particularly strong partnership with producers and teams working on monetization, behavioral analytics, e-commerce and payment-related performance.

## Key Responsibilities

1. Data Governance & Analytics Standards

- Own the governance of analytical data, including canonical datasets, metric definitions, dataset ownership, documentation, lineage, access controls, and data quality.
- Define and maintain shared business entities and reporting logic so teams work from consistent, trusted data.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish data contracts and improve the reliability of analytical datasets.
- Continuously identify recurring analytical workflows and convert them into reusable, governed data assets.

1. Analytics Data Modeling

- Design and maintain analytical data models in BigQuery across staging, core, and reporting layers.
- Build reusable datasets that support monetization, LiveOps, customer behavior, payments, and operational reporting.
- Ensure business logic is implemented at the appropriate layer and follows consistent modeling standards.
- Reduce direct querying of raw tables by providing well-structured analytical datasets.

1. Data Platform Performance & Scalability

- Optimize BigQuery performance and cost through efficient data modeling, partitioning, clustering, and query optimization.
- Define best practices for scalable analytical workloads and efficient data consumption.
- Identify redundant datasets and reporting logic, improving both maintainability and warehouse efficiency.

1. Semantic Layer & Analytics Architecture

- Help define the architecture for serving analytical data to BI tools, internal applications, and AI-driven workflows.
- Evaluate semantic-layer technologies and modern analytics architectures (such as Cube.js and similar solutions).
- Contribute to long-term decisions around analytical infrastructure and data serving patterns.

1. Cross-Functional Partnership

- Work closely with product, producers, analysts, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into reusable data models.
- Contribute hands-on using SQL, Python, BigQuery, dbt-style modeling practices, and GCP-native tooling.
- Improve how analytical work is structured across the organization and help establish best practices as the function grows.

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, analytics engineering, or a related function.
- Strong hands-on experience with BigQuery and GCP in production environments.
- Advanced SQL skills and strong practical experience building analytical models, reusable marts, or semantic/reporting-ready datasets.
- Hands-on experience using Python for analysis, validation, prototyping, or data workflow support.
- Proven experience with data governance in analytics environments, including several of the following:
- source-of-truth design,
- dataset ownership,
- naming conventions,
- documentation,
- lineage,
- access management,
- data quality controls,
- cost governance,
- data contracts with engineering.
- Experience designing or improving data abstraction layers such as raw / staging / core / marts / semantic.
- Practical experience improving cost-efficiency and performance of analytical workloads in a cloud warehouse environment.
- Experience with semantic layers, OLAP / ROLAP / HOLAP architectures, or similar analytical serving patterns.
- Strong domain experience in at least one of the following areas:
- monetization analytics,
- LiveOps analytics,
- e-commerce or payments analytics,
- behavioral product analytics,
- customer analytics.
- Experience working directly with cross-functional stakeholders and turning loosely defined requests into scalable analytical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to stay hands-on while operating with senior ownership and strong execution discipline.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in gaming, mobile gaming, F2P, or live-service product environments.
- Experience with Looker or Looker Studio.
- Experience evaluating or implementing semantic-layer technologies such as Cube.js or equivalent solutions.
- Experience supporting AI/LLM-related data consumption use cases.
- Previous people management, mentoring, or team leadership experience.
- Experience helping define data standards across multiple teams rather than working only as an individual analyst.

## Why Join Us

- World-class team – work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players
- High growth, high impact – be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months
- Autonomy and ownership – we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results
- Modern tools and technology – use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work
- Equity – participate in the company's growth and long-term success

## About Aghanim

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aghanim provides an integrated direct-to-consumer commerce, payments, community engagement, and liveops automation platform for mobile game developers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (also registered in Newark, Delaware)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Constantin Andry, Konstantin Golubitsky, Albert Tugushev (former CEO, CTO, and engineer of Xsolla Labs respectively)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Mobile gaming (fintech & commerce enablement)
- Target customers: B2B — mobile game developers and publishers
- Mission: “We help game developers achieve financial and creative independence by providing the solutions they need to launch, run, and grow their businesses.”

## Products & Services
- **Commerce Engine**: Monetization tools for virtual goods, currency packs, lootboxes, passes, subscriptions — all hosted on the web outside the app store.
- **Merchant of Record (MoR)**: Handles payment processing, global taxation, fraud/chargeback management, and compliance (sales, delivery, returns).
- **Marketing & Retention Suite**: Email, browser, and in-app push notifications; segmentation & LiveOps automation; predictive analytics; affiliate/referral programs.
- **Community Engagement**: Web-based metagame experiences – news, events, leaderboards, guides, chat, giveaways, and incentives.
- **Payouts**: Revenue share and instant payouts for developers.
- **Fraud Detection**: Integrated with Sift for best-in-class protection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported funding is Seed)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$1.52M** (Seed VC, announced February 2024 with additional round in August 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners, QED Investors, Point72 Ventures, a16z Speedrun, Andreessen Horowitz, J.P. Morgan (primary operating bank), Adyen (payment processing partner), Sift (fraud prevention)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Launched public platform access in August 2024.
  - Hired Conor McLaughlin as CRO and Valentina Sevodina as COO in early 2026.
  - Monthly web traffic ~2.2M visits with +1785% yearly growth (as of mid-2025).
  - Partnerships with Adyen, J.P. Morgan, and Sift indicate strong enterprise traction.
  - Advisory board includes former gaming/payments leaders.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team pedigree**: Ex-Xsolla leadership (the company that scaled to $200M+ in revenue) – deep domain expertise in gaming payments.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines commerce, payments, community, retention, and fraud – reducing the need for multiple vendors.
- **Web-first DTC model**: Enables mobile game developers to bypass app store commissions (15–30%) and own the player relationship directly.
- **Global compliance built-in**: Handles tax, fraud, and chargebacks across 200+ territories.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand developer adoption of direct-to-consumer monetization.
- Deepen integrations with mobile game engines and analytics tools.
- Build out the liveops and community engagement features to increase player LTV.
- Grow the partner ecosystem (payments, fraud, analytics) to offer a turnkey solution.
- Scale team from its current ~8 employees to support rapid customer growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, lean startup with flat structure; founders are hands-on and previously built a global company (Xsolla).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Headquarters in Los Angeles (Woodland Hills area) with additional offices in New York City and Lisbon. Roles likely hybrid/remote-friendly depending on function.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on payments infrastructure, data engineering, and platform scalability. Team includes engineers from Xsolla, Microsoft, and Liftoff.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Joining at very early stage (Seed) with significant funding from top VCs – high potential for ownership and impact.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly stated, but typical for seed-stage fintech/gaming startups – equity, flexible hours, and direct exposure to founders.

## Sources
1. [aghanim.com](https://aghanim.com/)
2. [LinkedIn – Aghanim](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aghanim)
3. [CB Insights – Aghanim](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/aghanim)
4. [Workable – Aghanim Jobs](https://jobs.workable.com/company/oBzAUUmh7cHTznbEVoWucT/jobs-at-aghanim-inc.) (no current openings)
5. [PR Newswire – Aghanim Opens Public Access (Aug 2024)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aghanim-opens-public-access-to-mobile-dtc-enablement-platform-reveals-advisory-board-and-a-new-funding-round-302231430.html)
6. [PocketGamer.biz – Aghanim appoints CRO and COO (Jan 2026)](https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/82260/aghanim-appoints-new-cro-and-coo/)
7. [PR Newswire – Aghanim Partners with Adyen](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aghanim-and-adyen-form-strategic-partnership-to-power-direct-to-consumer-payments-for-mobile-games-302228888.html)
8. [PR Newswire – Aghanim Partners with Sift](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aghanim-and-sift-partner-to-prevent-fraud-in-direct-to-consumer-mobile-gaming-e-commerce-302311125.html)

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