We're looking for a Data Engineer to join our engineering team in Dublin. You will use your skills in software development and big data processing, storage and analytics to help us build our next generation of products and data initiatives. Working on a multi-disciplinary team of data engineers, data scientists and business SMEs, your work will play a key role in how we exploit our data. The systems you deliver will be the foundation for delivering business insights and driving data driven decision making here at Nitro.
What you'll be doing:
- You will be designing, developing, and operating data pipelines to provide high quality datasets to internal and external customers.
- Leveraging additional data sources through integrations with internal and external systems
- Building and maintaining REST services to serve the data needs of other components
- Owning solutions that support a rapidly growing business at massive scale from idea through to running in production
- Working closely with a tightly knit, multi-discipline team within a high performing engineering culture
- Working with other engineering teams to design instrumentation strategies
- Building automated test suites
- 2+ years of experience in data/software engineering
- 2+ years of experience in a JVM based programming language (e.g. Scala, Kotlin, Java)
- Excellent data wrangling skills and a solid knowledge of SQL
- Enthusiasm & a growth mindset (research and prototyping are a big part of this job)
- A self-driven and delivery focused attitude
Traits that will distinguish the ultimate candidate:
- Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g. Spark, EMR) and data pipelines (e.g. AWS data pipelines)
- Experience with event driven and streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka, Spark-Streaming, Flink, Akka Streams)
- Production experience with a functional programming language (particularly Scala, but also Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, …)
- Experience in Micro-service architectures and RESTful services
