Senior Data Engineer

Hiya!   

Here at Kape Technologies Plc, we help people around the world protect their digital privacy and stay safe online. Fueled by start-up-like enthusiasm and determination, we aim to ensure anyone can be anonymous online, and we are proud to make the digital world a bit safer every single day.   

This role is inside the Data Engineering team, which is responsible for developing & deploying PySpark ETL processes done on top of the Kape data lake & data warehouse, in order to support all teams inside the company such as Marketing, Finance, Product, Management, Infrastructure etc. with reporting, analysis and data pipelines for AI & machine learning projects.  

The team is currently also managing an Elastic Search cluster and an inhouse analytics tool, both deployed using Python, and is in the process of consolidating all company data into an AWS based data lake.     

What you will do:    

• Plan & execute the migration to a company wide data lake together with the direct manager and architecture team  
• Gradually develop & deploy ETL pipelines based on business requirements for alerting, reporting and insights  
• Ensure data integrity and versioning across all data storage systems  
• Work closely with the AI & ML team to provide curated datasets ready for encoding and analysis  
• Perform maintenance for the existing tools (Elastic Search) and fix any outstanding bugs  
• Follow internal agile/ SCRUM company practices to organize work  

Must have:    

• A minimum of 1 to 3 year experience working with Scala/Java/Python (or any other popular language) in a production environment 
• Previous experience working with large datasets and setting up ETL pipelines  
• Familiarity with Linux based OS and experience with version control systems (Git)  
• Familiarity with both SQL & No SQL data structures  
• Passion for working with data   

Nice to have:   

• Experience with AWS services 
• Experience with functional programming 
• Experience with cloud-based data lake and DWH solutions  
• Experience with Apache Spark and Airflow  

Soft Skills:   

• We are looking for a person with a passion for both data and development and a mindset open for change.   
• Bring a “if it can be automated, it will be automated” mentality.

What we bring to the table:

• A fun, flexible and relaxed work environment
• The chance to be part of an awesome, fun, high-performance team
• A fast-growing company environment, which also means huge personal growth potential and new, challenging projects to work on
• Support in adapting to the privacy and security industry and learning how to make the most of it
• Constant training, both in using tools and assimilating new knowledge
• Positive employee experience (online/indoor/outdoor events, social responsibility activities, etc.)
• Wide range of benefits (medical subscription, flexible benefits, gifts, gym on the premises)
• A supportive and inclusive team, a pleasant working environment

Hiring process

When it comes to hiring processes, “rigorous” and “opaque” are often mistakenly conflated. For us, it’s always a mutual exchange, so we think it’s important that candidates have a clear understanding of the process and what we’re looking for. Learn more about the hiring process by visiting our careers page.

Benefits

Health and happiness go hand in hand, and we make every effort to support our team members in all facets of their lives—both inside and outside the office. Learn more about our employee benefits by visiting our careers page.

Before you apply

• At the moment, we do not sponsor visas in the UK and the EU. For Hong Kong, we require at least two years of working experience and a university degree in a related field. For Singapore, we can only sponsor visas for mid-career or above.
• Please upload your resume as a PDF and do not include any salary or compensation information in it.

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