Position: Data Engineer
Company: 8allocate
Category: Data Engineer
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**8allocate** is a global provider of end-to-end custom software development solutions to companies all over the globe, from North America to the EU to Israel to Australia.

Headquartered in Estonia, we run offshore Research and Developments
centers in Kyiv and Lviv. Our team is 50% remote and distributed. We specialize in flexible interaction exclusively with international clients (we cover industries from commercial aviation to fintech) thanks to a multinational support group of experts and management.

Currently, we are looking for a **Data Engineer**.

**Project:** Our client is not only created gComm – the first-ever purchasing platform that lets gamers buy physical products directly inside mobile games – but also pioneered a brand new market category: Gaming Commerce. 

As a Gen-Z-focused B2B2C company embraces social commerce and anticipates the evolution of mobile games into a new form of social media, with gComm facilitating an effortless shopping experience coupled with uninterrupted gameplay. gComm’s 3-fold advantage gives DTC brands direct access to their Gen-Z gamer audience, allows game publishers to increase retention rates and monetize content in brand new ways, and lets gamers enjoy an elevated gaming experience.

**What responsibilities and tasks will wait for you?**
You will be responsible for designing and developing our data pipeline architecture which collects, processes, streams, and analyzes very large amounts of data. Building the infrastructure will require optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources. As part of making the data easily accessible, you will build analytics tools that will utilize the data platform to provide actionable insights and BI.

**What skills/qualities are required:**
— At least 2 years of experience working as a Data engineer.
— Knowledge and experience of SQL, experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
— A positive, “can do” attitude who isn’t afraid to lead the Data management efforts of a Startup.
— Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
— Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
— BA/B.Sc in Computer Science (or equivalent), or a veteran of a technological army unit.
— Excellent English skills.
— Strong project management and organizational skills.
— Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis etc.
— Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
— Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
— Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

**Why choose us?**
— “Family and Friends”. We are no longer a start-up, but still, have a family atmosphere in our supportive and spirited team, who are all working together on the same goal.
— “Just break down all barriers and find a better way”. Every day you’ll meet with interesting and challenging (international) projects that are covering industries from commercial aviation to fintech (different technologies, different products).
— “Hungry for learning”. You will get a lot of chances for career advancement and the development of new skills, opportunities for mentorship, or learning from more experienced colleagues.

**Benefits from 8allocate:**
— You’ll work in a supportive and spirited team of professionals.
— Corporate events, holidays, and team buildings for your joy.
— Training and development: we have a huge library (about 500 books!) and a budget for your professional development.
— English classes.
— Сoverage of sports activities.
— People-oriented management without bureaucracy.
— Paid vacation and sick leaves.
— Relocation program: if you are from another city and want to move to Kyiv, we will be happy to help you!