What & How

• Complex big data systems for one of the leading global retailers
• Contributions to the open-source software communities
• On premise and cloud-based infrastructure (Hortonworks Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure)
• Professional and comprehensive monitoring, logging and alerting
• Evolutionary Agile approach to software delivery
• Great teamwork and knowledge sharing

What we expect

• Able and eager to lead by example
• Hands-on experience in designing and development of scalable, distributed, highly available solutions
• Interest in solving challenging data engineering problems using state-of-the-art techniques
• Grounded knowledge and understanding of data structures, algorithms and distributed computing
• Fluent with Scala and/or other JVM languages and willingness to pick up new ones (eg python, bash)
• Able to develop and maintain high-quality code
• Can communicate with the business using good English (both written and verbal)
• Experienced in using big data technology stacks (eg Hortonworks, Cloudera)
• Has a deep understanding of data-intensive distributed systems