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Responsibilities
Work closely with team leads and backend developers to design and develop functional, robust pipelines to support internal and customer needs
Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks
Develop high quality, well documented, and efficient code
Manage and optimize scalable pipelines in the cloud
Optimize internal and external applications for performance and scalability
Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and write unit, integration, or data quality tests
Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap
Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives
Key Skills
Domain Expertise
2+ years of experience as a software/data engineer
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering
Technical Skills
Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java or Scala, Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, Spark SQL, Presto \ Hive, Cloud (preferably AWS), Docker, RDBMS (such as Postgres and/or Oracle), Linux, Shell scripting, GitLab, Airflow, Cassandra & Elasticsearch.
Experience in big data processing tools/languages using Apache Spark Scala.
Experience with orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools.
