Data Engineer Tech Lead (closed)

Mobilunity is a provider of dedicated development teams aiming to bring European corporate culture to the Ukrainian IT-labor market. Throughout all the years of our existence and until now, we’ve been working hand in hand with European companies as our primary partners. By our own example, we are proving that the dedicated team model works the best in all directions including employee’s interests as people have always been our main asset. Joining Mobilunity you won’t ever feel alone. 

On behalf of our Client from Japan we are looking for a Data Engineer Tech Lead.

About project:
Our client is a fast-growing fintech company based in Tokyo. The company offers its real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan. Our client started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for e-commerce customers in October 2014. The main product is an online payment platform which requires no pre-registration or credit card to use; via this service the customers can purchase products online using only a mobile phone number and email address and settle a single monthly bill for all their purchases, either at a convenience store, by bank transfer or auto debit. Customers can use credit funds during a month and then return the balance to zero without paying credit interests.

This service also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions. There are currently over 4 million accounts in use. This service got the largest investment to date in the Japanese financial tech industry, including PayPal Ventures investment.

 
Technical stack on the project:

• Back-end: Scala, Cats/Cats-effect
• Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka
• ElasticSearch
• Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudformation, ECS, Fargate
• Hexagonal architecture
• Web front-end: React, Redux, Webpack (SPA)
• Mobile: React Native

Key Role and Responsibilities
The Data Platform Engineer Tech Lead should be able to understand the business, technical requirements and implement solutions accordingly. (S)he should also have hands-on experience in application development, in-depth knowledge in programming languages and data storage technologies. The Tech Lead should also have experience leading a team of 3 or more people. Duties and responsibilities include:

• Supporting the well-being of deployed data services
• Enhancing the operation and monitoring facilities
• Implement scalable data pipeline from various Paidy platforms, data warehouse, or 3rd party services
• Following business or technical initiatives, implement data solutions accordingly
• Being domain expert in data semantic, providing advisory on business intelligence requests
• Managing reporting facilities; implementing and promoting self-service reporting tools
• Performing evaluation of technology, POC and feasibility analysis
• Support and manage a growing team of Data Engineers
• Technical documentation

Skills and Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related subject
• 7+ years of experience in software development
• Strong software development skills in OOP languages.
• Good knowledge of resource constraints analysis and performing tuning
• Good knowledge of data structures
• Strong knowledge and experience on various RDMS, NoSQL and big data platforms
• Technologies including kafka, akka, java, scala, elastic search, Cassandra, and Postgres
• Able to follow SDLC methodologies, deliver proper documentation
• Effective communication skills, able to communicate project status and problem effectively
• Practical experience with realtime/event paradigms
• Creative yet detail oriented, good at solving problems and deriving solutions
• Willing to work in a dynamic environment and pick up new technologies

In return we offer:

• The friendliest community of like-minded IT-people
• Open knowledge-sharing environment – exclusive access to a rich pool of colleagues willing to share their endless insights into the broadest variety of modern technologies
• Mobilunity Medical Insurance program designed to attend our teams’ needs
• Paid vacations and sick leaves, including 5 paid days per year that don’t require a sick note
• Fair salary and 100% taxes coverage – don’t worry about possible taxes raise – we will get you covered
• Perfect office location in the city-center (900m from Lukyanivska metro station with a green and spacious neighborhood) or remote mode engagement: you can choose a convenient one for you, with a possibility to fit together both
• No open-spaces setup – separate rooms for every team’s comfort and multiple lounge and gaming zones on all of the 3 floors
• English classes in 1-to-1 & group modes with elements of gamification
• Neverending fun: sports events, tournaments, music band, multiple affinity groups

Come on board, and let’s grow together!