Big Data/Spark Engineer

EngineeringZürich, Zurich, SwitzerlandFull time

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Description

Unit8 is looking for a Big Data/Spark Engineer to join our team. You will use Spark (pyspark) and a full set of other Big Data tools to understand the data and drive the development of ETL pipelines in the financial sector in Zurich.

Our perfect candidate has already a background in working with financial data and data modelling or is willing to pick up financial domain knowledge. He/she is capable of translating complex technical and business requirements into readable, maintainable and efficient Spark pipelines that fit in the bigger picture of complete data platform.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot data pipelines that are relied on for both production and analytics applications using modern tools like Spark/Cloudera.


• Use your skills in Big Data and basic Data Science to harness the heterogenous financial data and enable other teams to use it


• Use software best practices in continuous integration and delivery, supervise code and data evolution (code reviews, versioning)


• Drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality.


• Closely collaborate with other software engineers, data scientists and business owners, learning from them but also driving the discussions to analyze the nature of current problems in order to propose, implement and test proper solutions


• Work in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.

Who You Are

• You know how to work with high volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Hadoop


• You know how to write distributed services in Python/jvm based languages


• You are happy to work with more junior developers - code reviewing, mentoring


• You are happy to work with business stakeholders - requirement gathering, prioritization


• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.


• You appreciate agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation


• You understand the value of teamwork.

Benefits

What We Offer

• Competitive salary


• Sharing our profit - we offer equity


• Yearly bonus depending on performance of the company


• Work with state-of-the-art technology on projects with impact


• Challenging work close to a customer inside an experienced 10x engineering team


• Tailor-made mentorship program


• Dedicated budget for training


• 10% of the time for self-development

Who We Are

Unit8 is a Swiss-based startup focused on solving problems of big industries like chemical, pharma, automotive and finance. Our team comprised of world-class experts in ML and Software Engineering who previously worked for Sillicon Valley companies like Google, Amazon, Palantir or Microsoft. We work with some of the biggest companies in the world to solve the problems that directly affect their business. Apart from that, Unit8 dedicates a part of resources and time on things that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and engineering for good cases.

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