Senior Data Engineer

Role Title: Senior Data EngineerReports to: Tech Lead Data EngineeringLocation: Hybrid working environment (Remote and Paddington, London)Role Type: Permanent, Full-timeHow do we say our name, well it sounds like 'view'. It's also a lot shorter than saying 'Viewed Impressions for Out Of Home'.VIOOH is a fast-growing startup that is defining the future of out-of-home advertising.We are a dynamic team building a global platform which automates the buying and selling of outdoor advertising, enables programmatic trading and delivers dynamic, data-driven content to screens in locations and moments to better resonate with and influence consumers.We’ve recently redesigned our people strategy to create a future-proof, hybrid and flexible workplace approach. Employees can work in the office (Paddington, London) and from home, empowering all VIOOHers to thrive regardless of location and ensuring we can attract diverse talent to support our global expansion.Role OverVIOOHWe are looking for an experienced senior software engineer to join our growing Data engineer team.Data is at the core of our company and this is an opportunity for you to work on shaping and building our data platform. This year we have key capabilities which will be released such as data intensive services and real time dashboards based on our data lake and our data gateway, in addition to complex infrastructure upgrades.You will be involved in the design and construction of new data capabilities from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to influence key architectural decisions at early stages.As well as building the data platform, you will work with data scientists to guide them through productionizing data science workflows.In this role, you will spend 70% of your time designing and writing software, 20% managing infrastructure, and 10% on ad hoc and support tasks.VIOOH encourages you to use 10% of your time per week to invest in your growth, both personal and professional. A financial budget is also provided for any courses, books, etc that you may need.What you'll be working onDesigning APIs around data-intensive services. Some of our services see loads of 5,000 RPS.Streaming pipelines and services to power near real-time reporting involving streaming joins.Building a high throughput service to push events to third parties.Managing key infrastructure such as Kafka, Aurora, DynamoDB, and owning the Data infrastructure. We see around 3 Billion kafka messages per day.Key infrastructure migration and upgrades.Write software using Java / Python / Scala.What we want from youYou should have most of these -Ability to design services with knowledge of distributed systems.Experience building REST APIs.Good knowledge of streaming technologies, preferably Kafka, both as a user of the service and its inner workings.Experience managing AWS or GCP.Experience in building or integrating Monitoring Tools (Datadog / Kibana / Grafana / Prometheus).Experience using Terraform / Docker / Kubernetes.Write software using either Java / Scala / Python.The following are nice to have, but not required -Apache Spark jobs and pipelines.Experience with any functional programming language.Database design concepts.Writing and analysing SQL queries.Application overVIOOHOur recruitment team will work hard to give you a positive experience throughout the process, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews through to your onboarding.VIOOH is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.