We have developed a research tool that meters online behavior on
computers, phones and tablets in a privacy conscious way. We are
currently active in over twenty countries, across 5 continents, and have
approximately 100,000 research participants active with our software
every day. These meters generate behavioral data that needs to be
processed before being delivered to our clients.
Several
transformations, aggregations and classifications are applied that
ultimately define the product. A key aspect in this process is quality
and reliability. We heavily use Amazon Web Services technologies to do
our data processing. Services like S3, SQS, EMR are augmented with our
libraries that tie everything together.
We are now looking for an experienced Technical Lead for our Data Team (data trecking and processing).
Challenges to work on:
-Scaling up our system and improving performance
-Leading the simplification of our data models and architecture
Responsibilities
-Tech envision: decide to add new features from the product roadmap, cost wise
-Lead the architecture solutions for our business needs
-Organize our platform and its components and define the development process
-Team management: 8-12 people
Some of the technologies you can find in our stack are:
-Ruby on Rails/ Go
- Hive/ Hadoop
-MySQL
-Redis
-Passenger
-Git
-Amazon Web Services
What we offer Our current team is a group
of passionate all-round engineers. The development method we use can be
described as pragmatic and efficient. We all hang out on Slack and have
daily face-to-face meetings. You will join our Barcelona office where
you will work together with the development team there and also interact
frequently with the team in Amsterdam.
At Wakoopa you will also find:
-Flexible working hours
-Competitive salary
-Yearly educational/conference budget
-Offices in two of the most beautiful European cities: Barcelona and Amsterdam
-Awesome experienced colleagues
-Health insurance option
-Other flexible retribution options
If you have the following skills and experience we want to meet you as soon as possible:
-Knowledge and strong experience in architecting and scaling systems
-Tech Lead/ CTO previous experience
-Experience with or willingness to learn Ruby on Rails
-Affinity with automated testing
-Strong Data Engineer knowledge
-Capacity and willingness to continue coding
Ideally, your backgound will also include:
-Experience in a Saas Company, preferably B2B
-Having worked with real-time data in advertising industry or media planning
