Data Engineer
OLX Group
Remote, Portugal
What you will be doing:
- Enable efficient consumption of domain data as a product by delivering and promoting strategically designed actionable datasets and data models
- Build, maintain, and improve rock-solid data pipelines using a broad range of technologies like AWS Redshift, Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), Spark, Airflow, and Kinesis streaming
- Support teams without data engineers in building decentralised data solutions and product integrations, for example, around DynamoDB
- Act as a data ambassador, promoting the value of data and our data platform among engineering teams and enabling cooperation
- Continuously look for opportunities to integrate data into our end products
- Cooperate with product teams to streamline source data so that data is cleaner earlier in the process
- Follow and promote data mesh principles around decentralised data ownership and ‘data as a product’
- Enforce privacy and security standards (privacy by design)
- Increase data literacy of the engineering organisation by hosting training and mentoring other engineers (both less experienced data engineers and software engineers)
Who we are looking for:
- +2 years of experience building complex data pipelines and working with both technical and business stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think creatively; highly driven and self-motivated
- Master of SQL language regardless of the underlying data technology. Writes efficient, easy-to-read, and crisp SQL code
- Experience with designing for scale and data growth in terms of storage and performance
- Business and product understanding (why over what) and the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Consistent track record of successful data projects delivered
- Potential to build rock-solid Python applications - writes understandable and maintainable code
- Experience with cloud data technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure Cloud), such as Redshift, Athena, Spark
- Knowledge and curiosity about other big data technologies and tools
- Experience with analytics and defining metrics
- Experience with measuring data quality
- Excellent written and verbal proficiency in English
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