Data Engineer
About The Role
As a Data Engineer at Sporty, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth processing and handling of data for our machine learning and data science initiatives. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, building, testing, optimising, and maintaining data pipelines and architectures for various aspects of our rapidly growing business.
What You'll Be Doing
Design, develop and maintain scalable batch ETL and near-real-time data pipelines and architectures for various parts of our business, on fast and versatile data sources with millions of changes per dayEnsure all data provided is of the highest quality, accuracy, and consistencyIdentify, design, and implement internal process improvements for optimising data delivery and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalabilitBuilds out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexityCommunicate with data scientist, MLOps engineers, product owners and BI analysts in order to understand business processes and system architecture for specific product features
What You'll Bring
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field3+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, BI or related domainExperience in successfully implementing data-centric applications, such as data warehouses, operational data stores, and data integration projectsExperience with large-scale production relational and NoSQL databasesExperience with data modellingGeneral understanding of data architectures and event-driven architecturesProficient in SQLFamiliarity with one scripting language, preferably PythonExperience with Apache Airflow & Apache SparkSolid understanding of cloud data services: AWS services such as S3, Athena, EC2, RedShift, EMR (Elastic MapReduce), EKS, RDS (Relational Database Services) and Lambda
Even better if
Understanding of ML ModelsUnderstanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies like Docker/KubernetesRelevant knowledge or experience in the gaming industry
What's In It For You
Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainabilityA competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter28 days paid annual leaveOur core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of thisReferral bonuses & flash bonusesTop of the line equipmentAnnual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview Process
Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team Offline Take home assignmentRemote video interview with Team Members (90 Mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
We are committed to maintaining a fair, secure and authentic recruitment process. Applications submitted using false, misleading or fraudulent information, including impersonated or fake profiles, will not be considered. Where reasonably necessary to protect the integrity and security of our recruitment process, we may verify a candidate’s identity and/or the accuracy of information provided during the recruitment process. Any such checks will be carried out in a proportionate and appropriate manner and in accordance with applicable data protection and employment laws.