Senior Analytics Engineer

👋 About Us

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.

We operate two core products

• NALA, our consumer app makes cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
• Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.

Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.

At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.

Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion

🙌 Your Mission

As Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll own, uplift and maintain NALA's data transformation layer — the foundation that all reporting, governed metrics, self-serve analytics and AI-powered capabilities depend on. Your work will add semantic richness, structure and governance to NALA's data, ensuring every model is documented, tested and described in a way that both humans and AI agents can interpret and trust. Agentic analytics is arriving fast, and this role exists to help ensure NALA's data foundation is ready for it.

🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role

• Own the transformation layer (dbt + Snowflake) — refactoring, enforcing best practices, and evolving our data stack to a best-in-class standard
• Take ownership of streaming data pipelines alongside batch transformation — ensuring real-time and near-real-time data flows are reliable, cost-efficient and well-integrated into the broader data architecture
• Establish and enforce coding & agentic coding standards, systematic testing and documentation as CI-enforced defaults across all data models
• Optimise warehouse performance and cost efficiency, identifying and resolving the query patterns and materialisation choices driving unnecessary spend
• Build the foundation for AI-powered self-serve by ensuring models carry the semantic richness and documentation that agents need to return reliable answers
• Scope and resolve orchestration decisions (dbt Cloud vs Dagster) and own the infrastructure roadmap for the transformation layer
• Support and mentor analysts on analytics engineering best practices, raising the engineering standard across the team

🔥 Must-have requirements

• 4+ years hands-on experience with dbt (ideally fusion) — building, refactoring and maintaining production-grade transformation layers
• Strong SQL, Python and data modelling skills with a clear understanding of warehousing and modern data architecture
• Snowflake or Databricks experience including query performance tuning and cost optimisation
• Deep proficiency with AI-assisted development workflows (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code) to force-multiply engineering output and accelerate delivery
• Track record of implementing testing, CI/CD, documentation standards and PR review workflows in dbt projects
• Comfortable owning an infrastructure roadmap — can assess the current state, propose a plan and execute without being directed step-by-step

💪 Nice to have requirements

• Semantic layer experience (Cube, dbt Semantic Layer) and understanding of how governed metric definitions sit on top of a transformation layer
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, dbt Cloud etc)
• Experience with Hex or similar modern BI/notebook platforms
• Experience in fintech, payments or regulated environments where data accuracy and governance carry real business consequences
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and product analytics

• ✅ Success in the role looks like
• 3-Month Metrics

Full ownership of the transformation layer and warehouse, with a clear understanding of the current architecture, cost drivers and priorities

6-Month Metrics