Staff Data Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

·       Build scalable systems that will have a direct impact on customer acquisition, experience, conversion and retention

·       Take full ownership of the product : from development to cloud deployment

·       Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps for the business

·       Drive continuous improvement to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform and services while keeping high bar for customer trust, performance, and availability.

Qualifications:

·       7+ years of professional software development experience

·       Excellent coding skills, with emphasis on object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem solving, refactoring, performance improvement and complexity analysis.

·       Experience with open source frameworks and technologies, like Spring, AWS, APIs, NoSQL, Big Data Technologies (Spark, Elastic Search, Kafka etc.)

·       Hands on Java

·       Distributed systems experience is a must, should be skilled at building applications at scale, and working on tradeoffs based on business demand.

·       Taking ownership comes naturally to you and you thrive in an environment where priorities and requirements are not always clear.

·       Comfortable working in an agile fast paced startup-like environment and you have the ability to learn fast.

·       Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred:

·       Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

·       Experience with large datasets

·       Experience communicating with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy

·       Experience influencing software engineering best practices

·       Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

·       Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions