About This Job
About SadaPay
SadaPay is transforming financial services in Pakistan with a digital-first experience that makes managing money simple, transparent, and hassle-free. With over three-quarters of the population still unbanked, we believe financial services need a radical shift. With SadaPay, all you need is a CNIC, a phone number, and a smartphone to get started; no paperwork, no long waits. Our 3 million+ users have left behind their worst banking frustrations, no hidden fees, free local transfers, and a payment experience that’s actually enjoyable. Pair that with friendly customer service and a vibrant debit card, and suddenly, finance doesn’t just work; it feels fun! 🚀
Why is this role important?
Every rupee that moves through SadaPay leaves a trail in more than one place: our own ledger, the card processor’s files, the interbank switch’s settlement reports, the central bank’s instant-payment rail. The data platform is where those trails meet. It is how we prove the books balance, how finance closes the month, how risk sees a pattern before it becomes a loss, and how the rest of the company answers questions about customers without anyone touching production. When a partner file arrives late, changes format without notice, or disagrees with our ledger by one transaction, it’s the data platform that notices first. A pipeline that fails quietly doesn’t show up on a dashboard. It shows up weeks later as a reconciliation gap somebody has to explain. This role owns that platform end to end: the ingestion from our services and our partners, the warehouse models built on top, and the reconciliation and reporting that finance, risk, and operations depend on every day. It’s a small team with a wide surface, so you’ll carry real ownership from your first month.
As a Sadanaut you will:
Own the data platform
- Run and extend our event-driven pipeline platform: configuration-defined pipelines deployed on AWS serverless and container compute, fed by Kafka, S3, schedules, and events.
- Keep dozens of production pipelines healthy, and make sure every one of them fails loudly when it fails.
- Pay down what’s accumulated: retire dead pipelines, consolidate duplicates, and document the ones that stay.
Move data in and out of partners, correctly
- Ingest settlement, transaction, and status files from card, switch, and payment-rail partners,and send the files they need from us over SFTP and APIs.
- Treat each partner file format as a contract: validate it on arrival, and catch schema drift, late files, and missing files before anyone downstream relies on them.
Make reconciliation trustworthy
- Build and own the reconciliation between our ledger and our partners’ records: matched, unmatched, returned, and declined, surfaced to the teams who act on them.
- Build replay and backfill tooling so a bad day can be corrected without hand-editing data.
Model the warehouse
- Build and maintain warehouse models in dbt on top of our lakehouse, working with our analytics engineer on what the business needs.
- Own freshness, testing, and cost: tests on every model that matters, clear lineage, and queries that don’t get slower as volume grows.
Protect sensitive data
- Keep personal and financial data separated, access-controlled, and auditable across the platform.
- Build within our data-residency and regulatory constraints, and be ready to show an auditor how data moves, who can see it, and why.
What it takes to become a Sadanaut:
The Foundation Weʼre Looking For
- 3+ years building and running production data pipelines, not only writing queries against them.
- Strong Python and strong SQL. You can write the transformation, and you can also find the reason it’s slow.
- Hands-on experience with AWS data services: S3, serverless and container compute, data catalogue, and a cloud warehouse such as Redshift.
- Experience consuming from and producing to Kafka or another event stream.
- Experience with dbt or an equivalent modelling layer, including tests and documentation.
- An instinct for correctness: idempotent jobs, safe reruns, and the ability to explain exactly how a number was produced.
- Real daily use of AI tools in your work. Writing and reviewing pipeline code, tracing a failure through logs, explaining an unfamiliar model:you should be able to walk us through a workflow you genuinely use, not a demo you tried once.
Stronger Candidates Will Also Have
- Financial reconciliation experience: settlement files, matching logic, and chasing breaks to the root cause.
- Experience exchanging files with external partners over SFTP, with the operational discipline that requires.
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent) and CI/CD for data workloads.
- Lakehouse formats and table maintenance: Parquet, partitioning, compaction.
- Observability for data: freshness and volume alerts, lineage, and failure tracing.
Good to Have
- Experience with BI tooling such as Tableau
- Handling of PII and regulated financial data, including masking, tokenisation, and access control.
- Prior work in fintech, payments, or another regulated, high-trust domain.
The Mindset Weʼre Looking For
You’re a builder, not a job-seeker. You’d rather a pipeline stop than let it load wrong data, and you can’t leave a number alone until you know where it came from. You write things down, because the next person to debug your pipeline might be you at 2am. You’re comfortable owning a wide platform on a small team, working directly with finance, risk, and product, and deciding what’s worth fixing first.
Perks of being at SadaPay:
- USD-Denominated Salary: Your salary is fixed in PKR and denominated in USD to help protect against currency fluctuations. The USD-denominated amount is converted and paid in PKR and remains subject to all applicable taxes and deductions. If the USD depreciates against the PKR, you will always receive at least your fixed PKR salary.
- Hybrid Work Culture: In locations where we have an office, our teams follow a hybrid work model with 2 days in the office and 3 days remote each week, balancing collaboration, flexibility, and focused work.
- Flexible Leave Policy : We offer a flexible leave policy to support a sustainable work-life balance. We trust our Sadanauts to manage their work and leave responsibly.
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage : Every team member, regardless of grade, receives Medical Insurance (covering both outpatient and inpatient care), including immediate family and parents.
- Provident Fund Contributions : We provide provident fund contributions to all team members to support their financial growth.
- Technology and Resources : Each team member receives a laptop and additional resources (relevant to their role) to help them work efficiently and comfortably.
Equal Opportunity Provider:
At SadaPay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome and valued. We strive to make every team member feel comfortable and respected in the workplace. Discrimination of any kind has no place here; instead, we promote a culture of respect and mutual support among Sadanauts. Our recruitment process is built on fairness and equality for all, irrespective of race, age, gender, color, religion, social status, disability, or ethnicity.