Senior Data Engineer

Description What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.

If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

Responsibilities

• Writing defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems.
• Configuring and deploying Quantexa software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch, with our platform being hosted on both private and public virtual clouds, such as Google cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon.
• You’ll be a trusted source of knowledge for your clients. And you’ll articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience so they can make key decisions.
• Collaborate with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges. You proactively promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practice is followed.

Requirements

• Background in hands-on technical development, with at least three years of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent, and preferably at least four years of software industry experience.
• Proficiency in Scala, java, python, or a programming language associated with data engineering.
• Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker and a little bit of good old Bash scripting).
• A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.
• Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent).

Preferred Qualifications

• Some experience supporting or mentoring a graduate or junior engineer within a team to help them grow.
• The desire to grow with our business and your role – over time, you might get the opportunity to lead on projects.

Benefits

• Competitive salary 💰
• Company bonus
• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘‍♀️
• Annual leave, national holidays + birthday off! 🌴
• Ongoing personal development
• Company wide socials

About the Company Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company that helps organizations make more informed operational decisions through meaningful data. Quantexa’s platform uses the latest big tech and AI to power Contextual Decision Intelligence; a new approach that uncovers hidden risks and reveals new opportunities by providing a holistic, connected view of internal and external data, all in one place.