💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Data Engineer

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Lifecheq
📍 workfromhome, gauteng, South-Africa
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Location
workfromhome, South-Africa
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Posted
May 30, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Data Engineer role at Lifecheq .

You’ll take ownership of our analytics data layer and work closely with our Platform and ML squads. Your job is to build a fast, clean, and reliable system that integrates backend data from an event-sourced architecture, external services, and JSON-based event logs—then serves performant, well-modelled views to analysts, ML pipelines, dashboards, and the product frontend.

Responsibilities

  • Designing a real-time ingestion pipeline for event-sourced data streams and JSON logs on S3 for low-latency performance.
  • Defining a clear semantic model and restructuring existing views into a maintainable, well-layered architecture.
  • Ensuring a reasonable compute budget and building structured views that can be safely used across analytics, reporting, and application layers.
  • Cleaning up pipeline logic to reduce latency, improve readability, and lower ...