Senior SW Engineer (Python), Core Data Platform

at  NTIATIVE IT Recruitment

A rare opportunity has come up for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with Python to join an amazing Core Platform Team, in fast-growing, global investment company which recently opened its new office in Warsaw – the first in Poland!
The platform simplifies the day-to-day activities of analysts, researchers, and data engineers by supporting core data quality metrics and evaluation systems, allowing users to concentrate solely on working with data. The system exists at the epicentre of a cloud-native ecosystem heavily leveraging Kubernetes, Kafka, Timeseries databases, Apache Airflow, and several cloud data warehouse technologies – and is trying to cater to all internal teams.
The ideal candidate has both deep experience as a backend software engineer and experience building upon the open-source and cloud data platform ecosystem. This team supports dozens of other teams managing thousands of datasets, so a client-obsessed mindset is critical; you don’t just build the best tech but go above and beyond in helping users to get the most out of the systems you are building. Your work will directly influence all users in the company by ensuring that data is a first-class citizen.
So if you’re seeking new professional challenges, opportunities for growth and want to build something new on the Polish market, this proposal may be just right for you!

• devising and developing solutions that capitalize on cloud-based data and distributed computing technologies to create the next-gen data platform
• brainstorm, design, write, test and manage production-grade backend application APIs, data event streaming services, and analytical aggregation pipelines
• contributing thought-leadership through the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering, through architecture, prototyping, development rollout, and support
• partnering with end-users and collaborating with team members to clarify and expand upon requirements, as well as providing first-class support and guidance on best practices
• employing creativity and lateral thinking to engineer high-performance solutions for observing, measuring, and alerting on data platform issues
• working within a globally distributed yet tightly knit engineering team, actively contributing to feature brainstorming, technical design discussions, code reviews, and overall team engagement
• producing software that is comprehensible, thoroughly commented, rigorously tested, and meticulously documented
• participate in on-call rotations to support our products and investors, embodying our “own what we build” philosophy