Staff Data Engineer

About the role

Company Overview:

Zocks is an AI platform transforming how financial advisors work. Starting in the US financial services market, we're building technology that supports advisors across their entire workflow - from sales and meeting preparation to note-taking, follow-ups, scheduling, email, document intelligence, reporting, and integrations with the systems they use every day.

Our goal is to take repetitive, manual work out of the advisor-client relationship and turn conversations, documents, and data into actions automatically. As our platform expands across more workflows, customers, and use cases, we're solving increasingly complex challenges around AI, real-time systems, data, security, integrations, and scale.

Zocks is headquartered in San Francisco, while our entire R&D organization - Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Infrastructure - is based in Budapest. This means our Budapest teams don't just execute on a product built elsewhere: they're directly responsible for shaping the product, technology, and how we build them as we grow.

More than 5,000 firms, including 6 of the 9 Barron’s Top Mega RIAs and 2 of the top 3 life insurance carriers, rely on Zocks, the #1 rated AI Assistant for Financial Services on G2.

Location: Budapest, XI., Science Park (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)

Why we're hiring for this role

Data plays a central role in how we build and evolve our AI-native platform at Zocks, supporting our product capabilities, customer experiences, and business decisions.

We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to take a leading technical role in developing our data infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our product and customer base continue to grow.

You'll join our Data team and work on a mix of complex engineering challenges and new initiatives. From optimizing production data pipelines and advancing our data quality capabilities to designing and implementing new data lake solutions, you'll have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of data engineering at Zocks.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with significant technical ownership. You'll drive architectural decisions, champion engineering best practices, and build solutions that scale with our product and organization.

Job Description

As a Staff Data Engineer at Zocks, you'll drive the technical design, development, and evolution of our data infrastructure, balancing immediate product needs with long-term reliability, performance, and scalability.

You'll work with technologies including ClickHouse, Dagster, Airbyte, Apache Superset, AWS, and Python, taking ownership of complex engineering challenges across our data ecosystem.

Working closely with our Head of Data, Data Analysts, Platform Engineers, and Software Engineers building enterprise solutions, you'll translate data requirements into robust technical solutions.

We're looking for someone who combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong architectural thinking, challenges existing approaches, and can drive complex technical initiatives from initial design through production.