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Senior Data Engineer (m/f)

Created on 26-05-2017
Location Berlin

Description

Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. Our mission is to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.

You will be:

  • An enthusiast - you understand what a good data warehouse can bring to a business and what it takes to build one.
  • A communicator - you can communicate effectively to engineers as well as business users.
  • A builder - you are experienced in all stages of warehouse development, from data modelling to building out comprehensive ETL.
  • A pathfinder - you are interested in solving problems today while helping shape strategic direction for the months and years ahead.
  • A thinker - you have an inquisitive mindset and the desire and ability to turn business requirements into working software.
  • An owner - you’ll take pride and ownership in the quality of the work you and the team produce.

You need:

  • Proven previous experience in a development and data engineering role preferably in tech, consulting, or finance.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with SQL (we use Postgres).
  • Strong programming skills (Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Clojure; we love them all).
  • Familiarity with AWS stack including EMR, Lambda & EC2.
  • Proficiency using large data sets and relational and dimensional modeling.
  • Expertise in a Unix environment.
  • Experience with messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ/JMS/etc.).
  • Exposure to big data/NoSQL systems and the issues that arise from working with large data sets.
  • A self-starter attitude with an enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, start-up environment.

Brownie points for:

  • Engineering/CS or Finance degree.
  • Experience in virtualized environments (Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Docker, etc.).
  • Skills working with structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Microservice architecture development experience.

The Funding Circle DE data team are part of a global team tasked with building and maintaining the data platform that supports analytics and reporting for FC.  Our stakeholders are from every area of the business - from teams tracking performance, through BI specialists to data scientists.  We have identified data as one of our key strategic assets and so this role is one in which you can make a visible impact on the business.

 

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