Data Engineer (DE 0223)

At Skroutz, we have one simple yet powerful mission/vision: we aim to amaze. And this vision has been hardcoded into our DNA since day one. Back when we started our journey in 2005 as a price comparison engine, we created an innovative shopping tool for our users and shaped the future of e-commerce in Greece.

Today as the biggest marketplace in Greece, we continue to believe that happy customers equal happy merchants and it’s our job to understand and anticipate their needs and offer them an unparalleled, doubt-free experience. And to do so, we are always searching for new ways to make them say “wow”: Skroutz Plus (our first subscription-based service), Skroutz Last Mile (our parcel distribution company) and Skroutz Point (the first network of smart lockers in Greece) to name a few!

To create amazing experiences, we need amazing people! People that share the same passion and enthusiasm for eCommerce and technology as we do.

Sounds like you?

#AimToAmaze

Our engineering values

• Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work.
• Release early & Iterate. Deliver prototypes and start gathering important feedback early on. Use that feedback to guide you. Don't be afraid to compromise, make sure to come back & tidy things up.
• Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up & take initiative.
• Don't over anything. Don't over-engineer, over-analyze, over-regulate, you get it.
• Enjoy your work. Celebrate success.

How will you contribute to Skroutz vision

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data Warehousing team. By joining, you will help us develop the data infrastructure that is able to ingest and transform data at scale coming from many different sources.

Our team aims to facilitate collaborative and effective decision-making by enabling analytical and reporting processes and bridging the gap between technical and business teams.

As part of the team you will strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals using various leading-edge technologies and software designs patterns such as:

• Amazon Redshift cloud Data Warehouse
• Debezium distributed platform for Change Data Capture
• Amazon RDS relational database in the cloud
• Apache Kafka distributed event streaming platform
• Karafka Ruby framework for Apache Kafka
• Amazon AppFlow for automated bi-directional data flows between SaaS applications and AWS services
• ... and many more technologies that we will decide together as a team

You will play a key role in developing and maintaining our cloud-based multi-terabyte Data Warehouse with many multi-billion-row tables.

If you have a strong technical background, familiarity with several programming languages, strong SQL knowledge, experience in solving tough problems that use large datasets and you want to play a key role in building Skroutz's data platform you are definitely a perfect fit for this position.

What you will be doing

• Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and other data consumers within the company in an attempt to gather and populate data warehouse table structure, which is optimized for reporting
• Evaluate business needs and objectives
• You will use various methods to transform raw data into useful data systems
• Develop, maintain, and support ETL processes for loading data from multiple data sources into a Redshift data warehouse
• Own and maintain a large, multi-terabyte data warehouse, including performance tuning and data retention/purge processes
• Utilize APIs for access to 3rd party systems
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
• Design and support the business’s database and table schemas for new and existing data sources for the data warehouse

Requirements

• Previous experience in Data Engineering or similar role
• Knowledge of at least one general-purpose programming language
• Expert-level SQL knowledge
  
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design
• Familiarity with Kimball dimensional and 3NF modeling standards
• Experience in working with a variety of data sources such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, S3 and MongoDB

We will appreciate if you have

• Experience with AWS Redshift
• Experience working with other AWS data technologies such as S3, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Data Pipeline, EMR, RDS, and Kinesis
• Familiarity or experience working with big data solutions such as Apache Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Familiarity with Change Data Capture (CDC) set of software design patterns
• Experience with Ruby and/or Python and Linux shell scripting
  
• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as Tableau

*Please note that this opening concerns a job located in Athens, Attica, Greece.

Benefits

• A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming a Marketplace
• Being part of an environment that gives employees large goals, autonomy and mentoring, which creates incredible opportunities, both for you and the company
• Competitive full time salary
• Ongoing training and development
• Private Medical plan
• Top of the Line tools and equipment
• Access to books, online courses and relevant resources
• Flexible remote working
• Extra paid time off
• Free Skroutz Plus subscription

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Skroutz is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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