Big Data Engineer

A growing Fintech client based in San Francisco are seeking a data-driven engineer to join their rapidly expanding team.

With recent investment of $15 million & a growing team of 25, this is a chance to join pre-Series B,

As a data engineer, you will work to recognise patterns and productize your solutions and techniques for integration into our products and our processes. You will have a high degree of authority and autonomy, be capable of managing multiple high-priority tasks promptly, and collaborate across the business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate heavily in architecture, design and implementation of large-scale distributed crawlers that extract semantically meaningful data from the Classic-Web and Social-Web

• Data munging with emphasis on the ability to deal with imperfections in data.

• Develop, refine and scale data management and analytics procedures, systems, workflows, best practices and other issues.

• Development of data-driven products.

• Visualise and communicate data clearly for use both internally and externally.

Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.

• 3+ years experience in developing large scale distributed software systems and data science.

• Web crawling and scraping skills with or without a framework.

• Experience with scraping social media, using social media APIs.

• Experience in data cleansing, curation, parsing, integration, semantic mapping, and editing.

• Proficiency in high-level languages such as Java, Scala, R or Python.

• Experience with HTML/Javascript/XPath/JSON and other web technologies.

• Strong knowledge of Linux / UNIX systems.

• Experience working with headless browsers and testing frameworks for website automation.

• An entrepreneurial spirit as well as the passion for solving difficult challenges through innovation and creativity, with a strong focus on results.

• Conscientious and well organised.

• Eager to produce results and drive forward progress while managing deadlines.

BENEFITS

• Early equity in a startup that is revolutionising commercial real estate lending.

• A competitive package of base pay and stock options.

• Generous health, dental and vision coverage for employees and family members, along with the pre-tax commuter programme.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the disruption of an industry and to shape the building of a company and culture.

• Chance for your direct input to be realised and put into action.

• Freedom to stretch the boundaries of your past work experience, learn skills outside of your immediate job description and grow your career.

• Autonomy, flexibility and a flat corporate structure.