This ad goes out to all those who want to find a purpose in what they’re doing and take accountability for their work.
At
Blinkist, we’ve created a meaningful product that is growing fast. Our
blinks – key insights from the world’s best nonfiction – inspire more
than 7 million people around the globe to keep learning new, exciting
things each and every day.
Why do we need you?
Our
data stack has always been a core column in our business success. As
Blinkist's data grows (along with the number of users, features, and
employees), the mission of setting up efficient, reliable and
frictionless data feeds to fuel our operations and decisions becomes
crucial.
That’s where you come in! As our
Senior Data Engineer, you will work in close collaboration with our
analytics and engineering teams building scalable data pipes, backend
systems, and tools using AWS services (mainly lambda, kinesis, and
redshift), python and javascript, handling millions of transactions per
day.
To get a sneak peek, read more about how your future colleagues
Tomek,
Anatoli, and
Alex feel about working at Blinkist.
As our Senior Data Engineer, you will:
- Be a core part of our analytics team and take ownership of managing and extending our data pipelines;
- Develop, implement, and maintain effective, consistent data collection and processing solutions that scale;
- Manage
the monitoring and optimization of our internal event pipeline that
supports analytics and machine learning, including real-time
personalized recommenders & advanced BI dashboards;
- Work
closely with our analysts to understand the business challenges and
discover opportunities to provide data in a more performant way;
- Constantly
explore and evaluate the implementation of new technologies to address
infrastructure scalability and performance challenges;
- Help
drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality and span
languages as needed, depending on the data processing framework in use.
To do this we believe you should have:
- IT-Engineering in your DNA: Diploma, M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, IT, Electrical Engineering or related fields;
- 4+ years experience in data engineering/BI engineering;
- Experience with distributed systems (the foundation of Blinkist);
- Experience with AWS Redshift;
- Knowledge of the tools that live within AWS ecosystem;
- High sense of accountability towards delivering performance and stability;
- Team mindset and eagerness to provide help when needed.
- [Bonus] Experience with ETL engines and data pipelines will be considered a plus
What’s in it for you?
At
Blinkist, we offer a fantastic workplace in the heart of
Berlin-Neukölln including all the benefits you’d expect – from a
personalized perk system to free private language lessons. Add free
lunch, a competitive salary, a personal development budget of 1,500€ per
year, flexible working hours, and a meaningful product on the rise, and
you have a first impression of why Blinkist is a great place to work.
We
got rid of classical management hierarchies and, instead, distributed
authority among all colleagues. We foster a unique company culture
championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct
communication, and mutual support. Not only do we want you to grow into
the role of Senior Data Engineer role, but we want this role to grow
with you.
If we’ve captured your interest and you want to help us
build the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply
now and let us know why you’re the perfect fit for the job!