Sr. Software Engineer - Data

Position Summary:

Are you a wizard with Data? At Pax8, we are looking to the future and how data will help get us there. You will join our growing Data Science team who are committed to the creation and expansion of clean accessible data to our internal Pax8 partners.

As a Software Engineer - Data, you will work amongst a collaborative team working with data from inception to modeling.This team works with ETL processes in order to pull data from across various data sources and consolidate it into our newly created and centralized Redshift data warehouse. The data you will work with and be creating a central point of truth for will aid several different Pax8 teams stretching across the organization that will be aimed at improving our customers' experience within our marketplace.

For you to successfully perform in this role, you will need to be equipped with experience to run with data, end-to-end, including everything from inception to modeling. Strong Python and SQL skills will be needed to navigate and deliver on the architectural areas and testing. You'll work with a vast amount of data, one crucial area will be within real-time streaming data harnessed by the use of Kafka. Having a solutions mindset will also be a key element to your contribution to our team approach to projects.

Meet the team and hear what they have to say about our Product & Engineering group: Meet the Team

Essential Responsibilities:

• Builds pipelines to ingest new data sources
• Transforms data to support varied use cases
• Includes testing in all aspects of the development process
• Mentors junior and mid-level Engineers
• Optimizes existing data pipelines and improves existing code quality
• Makes updates and improvements to deployment processes
• Participates in project planning and architecture discussions
• Analyzes potential problems and finds solutions to pressing data issues
• Participates in on-call rotation

Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

• At least Four (4) years of relevant data engineering experience
• Advanced experience with Python
• Expert experience with SQL
• Intermediate experience with a JVM language
• Exposure to other software development languages
• Advanced experience with Apache Spark or other distributed processing engines
• Advanced experience with Apache Kafka or other stream processing frameworks
• Intermediate experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, or other similar infrastructure tooling
• Advanced experience with cloud data tools such as S3, Glue, and Athena
• Intermediate experience with building CI/CD pipelines
• Effective problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Ability to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances
• Effective technical leadership abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with innovative application design and implementation
• Ability to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems

Required Education & Certifications:

• B.A./B.S. in related field or equivalent work experience

• M.S./M.A. in related field or equivalent work experience

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