About FlinksFlinks is the embedded finance platform that brings together connectivity, intelligence, and payments — giving businesses the infrastructure they need to build and deliver seamless financial experiences at scale.
As a leader in Open Finance in Canada, we’ve grown since 2016 into one of North America’s most trusted platforms for financial data access, enrichment, and money movement. We work with innovators across many industries, including lending, fintech, banking, insurance, and wealth management.
Today, our platform connects to 15,000+ financial institutions across North America and powers over 1M monthly connections. We also give our customers unprecedented visibility into 4,500+ real-time financial insights to support smarter decisioning. Companies rely on Flinks to streamline onboarding, verify income, assess credit risk, and power faster payment experiences.
We’re on a mission to drive financial innovation and help businesses build financial experiences that feel effortless, connected, and customer-first. That’s where you come in.
The RoleWe're hiring our
Senior Data Engineer (Data / ML Platform)
to
stand up data engineering as a discipline at Flinks. You'll own the data and ML platform that turns models into reliable production services, harden the data models the business runs on and close the seam between our data scientists and the product teams. This is a high-ownership,
greenfield-leaning
role: much of this foundation is yours to build and own, not inherit.
If you like being the person who makes data and ML
production-grade
- pipelines, serving, governance,



reliability - and you want broad impact across a company's data, this is built for you.
What You'll Do
Own and evolve the data platform
- the BigQuery warehouse, dbt transformation layers, Airflow / Cloud Composer orchestration and Pub/Sub ingestion that feed every model and metric.
Build and operate the ML platform
- training pipelines (Kubeflow on Vertex AI), model serving (FastAPI behind Vertex endpoints), CI/CD, containerization and typed contracts.
Take operational ownership of model-serving infrastructure
so reliability isn't carried by the data scientists alone.
Harden and standardize the data models
the business depends on - improving schemas, fixing data-quality issues and establishing trustworthy source-of-truth feeds.
Establish data governance and observability
- bring data that lives
outside
the warehouse under proper governance and build
operational metrics for products that don't yet have them .
Standardize how data engineering is done across product lines
- patterns, tooling and pipelines other teams can adopt.
Partner across data science, backend and product
on the producer to consumer contract (models produced by data science, consumed/aggregated downstream, surfaced to clients).




What You'll Work OnYou’ll help build and evolve the data platform that powers Flinks' financial intelligence products, supporting everything from transaction enrichment and categorization to risk and payments decisioning.
Key areas of focus include:
Building scalable data pipelines that process and transform large volumes of financial data.
Designing and maintaining reliable datasets, data models, and feature pipelines used by machine learning and product teams.
Improving data quality, observability, and operational metrics across our platform and customer-facing products.
Developing cost-productive, high-performance data services and infrastructure that support real-time and batch workloads.
Partnering closely with Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to enable new capabilities and accelerate product delivery.
Contributing to the evolution of our data platform architecture as we continue to scale our products, customers, and machine learning capabilities.
Our stack
Python, SQL, Bash
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
BigQuery and dbt
Airflow (Cloud Composer), Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions
Kubeflow, Vertex AI, MLflow, and FastAPI
Docker, Terraform, and Protocol Buffers
Azure DevOps
Grafana and GCP Logging
You don't need experience with every tool listed above - strong Data Engineering fundamentals and experience building production data platforms matter more than direct experience with our exact stack.
SQL is the exception
: it's a non-negotiable (see Key Requirements).
Why This Role
Greenfield ownership &l;

📌 Senior Data Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Flinks
📍 Winnipeg