Job Description
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
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Participate heavily in architecture, design and implementation of large-scale distributed crawlers that extract semantically meaningful data from the Classic-Web and Social-Web
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Data munging with emphasis on the ability to deal with imperfections in data.
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Develop, refine and scale data management and analytics procedures, systems, workflows, best practices and other issues.
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Development of data-driven products.
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Visualise and communicate data clearly for use both internally and externally.
Skills:
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Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
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3+ years experience in developing large scale distributed software systems and data science.
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Web crawling and scraping skills with or without a framework.
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Experience with scraping social media, using social media APIs.
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Experience in data cleansing, curation, parsing, integration, semantic mapping, and editing.
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Proficiency in high-level languages such as Java, Scala, R or Python.
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Experience with HTML/Javascript/XPath/JSON and other web technologies.
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Strong knowledge of Linux / UNIX systems.
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Experience working with headless browsers and testing frameworks for website automation.
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An entrepreneurial spirit as well as the passion for solving difficult challenges through innovation and creativity, with a strong focus on results.
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Conscientious and well organised.
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Eager to produce results and drive forward progress while managing deadlines.
BENEFITS
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Early equity in a startup that is revolutionising commercial real estate lending.
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A competitive package of base pay and stock options.
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Generous health, dental and vision coverage for employees and family members, along with the pre-tax commuter programme.
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Unlimited vacation policy.
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Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the disruption of an industry and to shape the building of a company and culture.
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Chance for your direct input to be realised and put into action.
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Freedom to stretch the boundaries of your past work experience, learn skills outside of your immediate job description and grow your career.
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Autonomy, flexibility and a flat corporate structure.
