Data and AI Infra Tech Lead

We’re seeking an experienced and skilled Data and AI Infra Tech Lead to join our Data Infrastructure team and drive the company’s data capabilities at scale.
As the company is fast growing, the mission of the data and AI infrastructure team is to ensure the company can manage data at scale efficiently and seamlessly through robust and reliable data infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in data infra or backend engineering.

• Strong knowledge of data services architecture, and ML Ops.

• Experience with cloud-based data infrastructure in the cloud, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Deep experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with Data Warehouse technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks.

• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Python, NodeJS, or an equivalent.

• Proven leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Bonus Points:

• Experience leading teams working with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda.

• Hands-on experience with TypeScript in backend environments.

• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI infrastructure.

• Experience building infrastructure for Data Science and Machine Learning.

• Experience collaborating with BI developers and analysts to drive business value.

• Expertise in administering and managing Databricks clusters.

• Experience with streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka.

A day in the life and how you’ll make an impact:

As a tech lead, you are required to independently lead the design, development, and optimization of our data infrastructure, collaborating closely with software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and other key stakeholders. You are expected to own critical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers to foster a high-performing team.

You will:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable, and secure data storage, processing, and access systems.

• Define and drive best practices for CI/CD processes, ensuring seamless deployment and automation of data services.

• Oversee and optimize our machine learning platform for training, releasing, serving, and monitoring models in production.

• Own and develop the company-wide LLM infrastructure, enabling teams to efficiently build and deploy projects leveraging LLM capabilities.

• Own the company's feature store, ensuring high-quality, reusable, and consistent features for ML and analytics use cases.

• Architect and implement real-time event processing and data enrichment solutions, empowering teams with high-quality, real-time insights.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate data and machine learning models into products and services.

• Ensure that our data systems are compliant with the data governance requirements of our customers and industry best practices.

• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

About Melio:

Melio builds business-to-business (B2B) payment tools so small business owners can spend less time in the back office and more time on their craft. As the fastest-growing B2B payment platform in the US, Melio is working hard to find new and better ways to help small businesses succeed in the ways that work best for them.

With offices in New York and Tel Aviv, and a vibrant work culture, Melio is expanding every single day. We are a diverse group of people who love what we do and do what we love. If you are a driven and passionate team player, you will fit right in. We are an equal-opportunity employer and are always on the lookout for top-notch talent—please reach out if you would like to join us on this exciting journey!

About the Engineering department:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Melio. We provide consultation, support and designs for technical solutions—supporting our customers and the entire organization. We get involved from the early stage of a project, making the connection between customer needs, our product design, and then translating these into solutions.

What’s our stack?

In Melio, we are all in with AWS Serverless. Meaning all our services are managed by AWS and our infrastructure is deployed using SAM CLI built over CloudFormation.

Serverless gives us the freedom to build, scale and deploy applications faster than ever. We combine the usage of relational and document DBS, write mainly in Node, TypeScript and Python for consistency and ability to share resources.

As part of an engineering team within a fintech company, you’ll have a unique opportunity to make a real impact on Melio, its product, our users and help the company scale.

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