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

- **Company:** Backbase
- **Location:** Krakow, Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-24
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workatbackbase/jobs/8306492

## Job description

Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, testing and implementing data solutions for our Engaging Banking Platform. Your responsibilities will span from data integrations, processing, validations and visualisation utilizing Data Lakehouse with medallion architecture, Reporting Suite and conversational LLM models. You will guard the data consistency, quality and end to end governance from where data is born to where it is used in dashboards, AI / ML applications and other data consumers. You will also be involved in building insightful visualizations and reports used by customers of banks worldwide.

In addition you will be involved in design, develop, and deploy scalable AI-driven solutions: underlying infrastructure, agent orchestration layers, and evaluative frameworks that make AI reliable, safe, and impactful in a highly regulated financial environment.

You will work in a multinational, diversified, focused and professional environment with a friendly atmosphere.

## What you'll do

- develop and maintain the workspaces, data pipelines and objects in Data Lakehouse
- develop and maintain data ingestion solutions from many different sources, such as RDBMS, Change Data Capture and streaming endpoints ensuring its accuracy and consistency
- Develop and maintain data-oriented solutions with SQL and Python code
- create and maintain data models to support reporting and analytics needs incl. AI models
- will be involved in create custom visualizations together with our user experience designers, develop interactive and visually appealing dashboards and reports
- work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver data-driven solutions, develop optimisations and troubleshoot issues
- document and share knowledge on solutions, including data models, reports, and dashboards, for future reference and training purposes.

## Who you are

- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field;
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, preferably in Databricks
- Strong skills in programming languages like Python and Java and database programming SQL
- Expertise in Data Lakehouse concepts and Delta Lake;
- Strong solution design and architecture skills, understanding of data domains, regulations, and compliance requirements;
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure);
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically under pressure;
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a team and to explain concepts to your team's colleagues..
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Our tech stack

- Languages: Python, SQL.
- Platform: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Blob, Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault.
- Processing and orchestration: PySpark, Fabric pipelines and notebooks.
- Ops: GitHub Actions, Fabric deployment pipelines, Power BI.
- AI surface: MCP, vector and hybrid search.

## About Backbase

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Backbase builds the AI-native Banking OS that unifies digital channels, front office, and operations so banks can coordinate customers, employees, and AI agents from one platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no public ticker; no funding rounds disclosed – appears organically grown)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (described as “founder-led” but names not stated on the provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Banking technology / financial services software
- **Target customers**: B2B – large banking institutions (120+ banks globally, serving 75M+ daily users)
- **Mission/purpose**: “We built something that didn't exist before – an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks.”

## Products & Services
- **AI-native Banking OS**: A unified platform that sits above legacy cores, CRMs, and data platforms. It orchestrates customer engagement (digital banking, conversational banking, front-office workspaces) and banking operations (high-volume processes like disputes, payments, lending). Designed to be deployed incrementally without rip-and-replace. Includes native AI agents for governance, automation, and auditability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 2,000+ employees globally, 50% of team in R&D, 120+ banks as customers, 75M+ active daily users across the platform
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding globally with 16 offices across 5 continents; notable customer examples include I&M Bank (Africa) which grew onboarding from 2,000 to 21,000 new customers per month, and Techcombank (Vietnam) achieving 50% of savings and investments through digital. The company is actively hiring and describes itself as “in the middle of the biggest shift in banking’s history.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Frontline architecture** – breaks down fragmentation between digital channels, front office, and operations, enabling banks to move fast without sacrificing compliance or security
- **AI-native from the ground up** – not a bolt-on; full governance and audit trails for every AI decision
- **Progressive modernization** – works with existing cores, no big-bang migration required
- **18+ years of banking domain expertise** (since 2003) with a singular focus on banking since 2012

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI integration into banking workflows (Elastic Operations – scaling throughput without scaling headcount)
- Expanding global footprint (17 offices, including recent additions in Hyderabad, Riyadh, Mexico City, and Toronto)
- Continuing to shift banks from legacy fragmentation to a unified, composable operating system

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement.
- **Work model**: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally.
- **Perks**: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one.
- **Engineering focus**: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots.

## Sources
1. [backbase.com/careers](https://www.backbase.com/careers)
2. [backbase.com/about](https://www.backbase.com/about)
3. [backbase.com](https://www.backbase.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/backbase](https://www.linkedin.com/company/backbase)

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