Data Engineer | Domain Data (GenAI)
Remote Portugal, Portugal
OLX – Data Science and Analytics /
Full-time /
Remote
WELCOME TO OLX
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Become a part of an agile team of data specialists taking care of massive amounts of data and groundbreaking technologies. Your work will be driving and empowering efficient and successful decentralized domain data ownership and data consumption within a GenAI specific team. This team is looking to explore the more far out, disruptive GenAI applications. When required, you will collaborate with a sister team responsible for the development of our GenAI Platform that looks to enable a widespread adoption of GenAI around the company.
While being part of a central team of Data Engineers across Lisbon, Berlin, and Poznan, you will be embedded in the cross-functional GenAI team. You will work closely with product managers, software engineers, product analysts, data scientists, and regional business partners to identify and design new data projects and guide them through successful delivery and validation from end to end.
What you will be doing:
- Enable efficient consumption of domain data as a product by delivering and promoting strategically designed actionable datasets and data models
- Build, maintain, and improve rock-solid data pipelines using a broad range of technologies like AWS Redshift, Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), Spark, Airflow, and Kinesis streaming
- Support teams without data engineers with building decentralized data solutions and product integrations, for example around DynamoDB.
- Follow and promote Data Mesh principles around decentralized data ownership and ‘data as a product’
- Act as a data ambassador promoting the value of data and our data platform among engineering teams and enabling cooperation
- Continuously look for opportunities to integrate data into our end products
- Cooperate with product teams to streamline source data so that data is cleaner earlier in the process
- Enforce privacy and security standards (privacy by design)
- Increase data literacy of the engineering organization by hosting training and mentoring other engineers (both less experienced data engineers and software engineers)
Who we are looking for:
- +2 year experience building complex data pipelines and working with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think creatively; highly driven and self-motivated
- Good SQL language regardless of the underlying data technology. Writes efficient, easy-to-read, and crisp SQL code.
- Relevant experience with designing for scale and data growth in terms of storage and performance
- Potential to build rock-solid Python applications - writes understandable and maintainable code
- Relevant experience with cloud data technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure Cloud), such as Redshift, Athena, Spark
- Knowledge and curiosity about other big data technologies and tools
- Relevant experience working with Data Science teams, GenAI experience is a plus
- Relevant experience with analytics and defining metrics
- Relevant experience with measuring data quality
- Good communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal proficiency in English
What we offer:
- Permanent contract
- Competitive salary + annual bonus up to 15% of your annual gross salary
- Work with and impact all OLX websites
- Free access to Udemy courses
- Health insurance and life insurance
- 100% remote work in Portugal (and the possibility of working from our office in Lisbon)
Why join OLX?
At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.
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