Data Engineer

Branch Overview

Imagine a world where every person has improved access to financial services. People could start new businesses, pay for their children’s education, cover their emergency medical bills – the possibilities to improve life are endless. 

Branch is a global technology company revolutionizing financial access for millions of underserved banking customers today across Africa and India. By leveraging the rapid adoption of smartphones, machine learning and other technology, Branch is pioneering new ways to improve access and value for those overlooked by banks. From instant loans to market-leading investment yields, Branch offers a variety of products that help our customers be financially empowered.

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the co-founders of Kiva.org and one of the earliest product leaders of PayPal. Branch has raised over $100 million from leading Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Visa. 

With over 32 million downloads, Branch is one of the most popular finance apps in the world.

Job Overview

Branch launched in India in early 2019 and has seen rapid adoption and growth. In 2020 we started building out a full Engineering team in India to accelerate our success here. This team is working closely with our engineering team (based in the United States, Nigeria, and Kenya) to strengthen the capabilities of our existing product and build out new product lines for the company.

You will work closely with our Product and Data Science teams to design and maintain multiple technologies, including our API backend, credit scoring and underwriting systems, payments integrations, and operations tools. We face numerous interesting technical challenges ranging from maintaining complex financial systems to accessing and processing creative data sources for our algorithmic credit model. 

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. As an engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making: We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative, and customer-focused setting.

Responsibilities

• Make significant contributions to Branch’s data platform including data models, transformations, warehousing, and BI systems by bringing in best practices.
• Build customer facing and internal products and APIs with industry best practices around security and performance in mind.
• Influence and shape the company’s technical and product roadmap by providing timely and accurate inputs and owning various outcomes.
• Collaborate with peers in other functional areas (Machine Learning, DevOps, etc.) to identify potential growth areas and systems needed.
• Guide and mentor other younger engineers around you.
• Scale our systems to ever-growing levels of traffic and handle complexity.

Qualifications

• You have strong experience (8+ years) of designing, coding, and shipping data and backend software for web-based or mobile products.
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with various business stakeholders and company leadership on critical functional decisions and technical roadmap.
• You have strong knowledge of software development fundamentals, including relevant background in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage and processing, and agile development methodologies.
• Have experience designing maintainable and scalable data architecture for ETL and BI purposes.
• You are able to utlize your knowledge and expertise to code and ship quality products in a timely manner.
• You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to arrive at the best solution for a given problem.
• You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise.
• You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions. 
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world.

Benefits of Joining

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully-paid Group Medical Insurance and Personal Accidental Insurance
• Unlimited paid time off including personal leave, bereavement leave, sick leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity leave and 3 months paternity leave
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• $500 Annual professional development budget 
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
• Team meals and social events- Virtual and In-person

Branch International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not and will not discriminate in employment on any basis prohibited by applicable law. We’re looking for more than just qualifications -- so if you’re unsure that you meet the criteria, please do not hesitate to apply!

Job Description

Mandatory Requirements 

• Experience in AWS Glue

• Experience in Apache Parquet 

• Proficient in AWS S3 and data lake 

• Knowledge of Snowflake

• Understanding of file-based ingestion best practices.

• Scripting language - Python & pyspark

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and manage cloud resources in AWS 

• Data ingestion from different data sources which exposes data using different technologies, such as: RDBMS, flat files, Streams, and Time series data based on various proprietary systems. Implement data ingestion and processing with the help of Big Data technologies 

• Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Spark and Cloud Services. You will need to understand your part of business logic and implement it using the language supported by the base data platform 

• Develop automated data quality check to make sure right data enters the platform and verifying the results of the calculations 

• Develop an infrastructure to collect, transform, combine and publish/distribute customer data.

• Define process improvement opportunities to optimize data collection, insights and displays.

• Ensure data and results are accessible, scalable, efficient, accurate, complete and flexible 

• Identify and interpret trends and patterns from complex data sets 

• Construct a framework utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to present consolidated analytical and actionable results to relevant stakeholders. 

• Key participant in regular Scrum ceremonies with the agile teams  

• Proficient at developing queries, writing reports and presenting findings 

• Mentor junior members and bring best industry practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7+ years’ experience as data engineer in consumer finance or equivalent industry (consumer loans, collections, servicing, optional product, and insurance sales) 

• Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline

• Advanced knowledge one of language: Java, Scala, Python, C# 

• Production experience with: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Oozie / Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker / Kubernetes, Snowflake  

• Proficient with

• Data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python)

• Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum)

• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy)

• Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools. 

• Organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and meet established deadlines. 

• Good written and oral communication skills and ability to present results to non-technical audiences 

• Knowledge of business intelligence and analytical tools, technologies and techniques.

Familiarity and experience in the following is a plus: 

• AWS certification

• Spark Streaming 

• Kafka Streaming / Kafka Connect 

• ELK Stack 

• Cassandra / MongoDB 

• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence other related tools

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

What we are looking for:

● 3+ years’ experience developing Data & Analytic solutions

● Experience building data lake solutions leveraging one or more of the following AWS, EMR, S3, Hive& Spark

● Experience with relational SQL

● Experience with scripting languages such as Shell, Python

● Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related dev process

● Experience with workflow scheduling tools such as Airflow

● In-depth knowledge of scalable cloud

● Has a passion for data solutions

● Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms

● Strong understanding of solution and technical design

● Has a strong problem-solving and analytical mindset

● Experience working with Agile Teams.

● Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders

● Able to quickly pick up new programming languages, technologies, and frameworks

● Bachelor’s Degree in computer science

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

• 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineering role on cloud environment

• Must have good experience in Scala/PySpark (preferably on data-bricks environment)

• Extensive experience with Transact-SQL.
• Experience in Data-bricks/Spark.

• Strong experience in Dataware house projects
• Expertise in database development projects with ETL processes.
• Manage and maintain data engineering pipelines

• Develop batch processing, streaming and integration solutions
• Experienced in building and operationalizing large-scale enterprise data solutions and applications

• Using one or more of Azure data and analytics services in combination with custom solutions
• Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL DW (Synapse), and SQL Database products or equivalent products from other cloud services providers

• In-depth understanding of data management (e. g. permissions, security, and monitoring).
• Cloud repositories for e.g. Azure GitHub, Git
• Experience in an agile environment (Prefer Azure DevOps).

Good to have

• Manage source data access security
• Automate Azure Data Factory pipelines
• Continuous Integration/Continuous deployment (CICD) pipelines, Source Repositories
• Experience in implementing and maintaining CICD pipelines
• Power BI understanding, Delta Lake house architecture
• Knowledge of software development best practices.
• Excellent analytical and organization skills.
• Effective working in a team as well as working independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Expertise in database development projects and ETL processes.

Company Description

At Bungee Tech, we help retailers and brands meet customers everywhere and, on every occasion, they are in. We believe that accurate, high-quality data matched with compelling market insights empowers retailers and brands to keep their customers at the center of all innovation and value they are delivering. 

We provide a clear and complete omnichannel picture of their competitive landscape to retailers and brands. We collect billions of data points every day and multiple times in a day from publicly available sources. Using high-quality extraction, we uncover detailed information on products or services, which we automatically match, and then proactively track for price, promotion, and availability. Plus, anything we do not match helps to identify a new assortment opportunity.

Empowered with this unrivalled intelligence, we unlock compelling analytics and insights that once blended with verified partner data from trusted sources such as Nielsen, paints a complete, consolidated picture of the competitive landscape.

We are looking for a Big Data Engineer who will work on the collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them.

You will also be responsible for integrating them with the architecture used in the company.

We're working on the future. If you are seeking an environment where you can drive innovation, If you want to apply state-of-the-art software technologies to solve real world problems, If you want the satisfaction of providing visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast paced environment, this is your opportunity.

Responsibilities

As an experienced member of the team, in this role, you will:

• Contribute to evolving the technical direction of analytical Systems and play a critical role their design and development

• You will research, design and code, troubleshoot and support. What you create is also what you own.

• Develop the next generation of automation tools for monitoring and measuring data quality, with associated user interfaces.

• Be able to broaden your technical skills and work in an environment that thrives on creativity, efficient execution, and product innovation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an analytical area such as Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or similar.
• 5+ years relevant professional experience in Data Engineering and Business Intelligence
• 5+ years in with Advanced SQL (analytical functions), ETL, Data Warehousing.
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing concepts, including data warehouse technical architectures, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools and environments, data structures, data modeling and performance tuning.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• Excellent coding skills in Java, Python, C++, or equivalent object-oriented programming language
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases and basic SQL
• Proficiency with at least one of these scripting languages: Perl / Python / Ruby / shell script

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with building data pipelines from application databases.
• Experience with AWS services - S3, Redshift, Spectrum, EMR, Glue, Athena, ELK etc.
• Experience working with Data Lakes.
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space
• Sharp problem solving skills and ability to resolve ambiguous requirements
• Experience on working with Big Data
• Knowledge and experience on working with Hive and the Hadoop ecosystem
• Knowledge of Spark
• Experience working with Data Science teams

JD for IOT DE:

The role requires experience in Azure core technologies – IoT Hub/ Event Hub, Stream Analytics, IoT Central, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure HDInsight / Databricks, SQL data warehouse.

You Have:

• Minimum 2 years of software development experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience in IoT/streaming data pipelines solution development
• Bachelor's and/or Master’s degree in computer science
• Strong Consulting skills in data management including data governance, data quality, security, data integration, processing, and provisioning
• Delivered data management projects with real-time/near real-time data insights delivery on Azure Cloud
• Translated complex analytical requirements into the technical design including data models, ETLs, and Dashboards / Reports
• Experience deploying dashboards and self-service analytics solutions on both relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with different computing paradigms in databases such as In-Memory, Distributed, Massively Parallel Processing
• Successfully delivered large scale IOT data management initiatives covering Plan, Design, Build and Deploy phases leveraging different delivery methodologies including Agile
• Experience in handling telemetry data with Spark Streaming, Kafka, Flink, Scala, Pyspark, Spark SQL.
• Hands-on experience on containers and Dockers
• Exposure to streaming protocols like MQTT and AMQP
• Knowledge of OT network protocols like OPC UA, CAN Bus, and similar protocols
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration, static code analysis, and test-driven development
• Experience in delivering projects in a highly collaborative delivery model with teams at onsite and offshore
• Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Delivered change management initiatives focused on driving data platforms adoption across the enterprise
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
   

Roles & Responsibilities
 

You Will:

• Translate functional requirements into technical design
• Interact with clients and internal stakeholders to understand the data and platform requirements in detail and determine core Azure services needed to fulfill the technical design
• Design, Develop and Deliver data integration interfaces in ADF and Azure Databricks
• Design, Develop and Deliver data provisioning interfaces to fulfill consumption needs
• Deliver data models on Azure platform, it could be on Azure Cosmos, SQL DW / Synapse, or SQL
• Advise clients on ML Engineering and deploying ML Ops at Scale on AKS
• Automate core activities to minimize the delivery lead times and improve the overall quality
• Optimize platform cost by selecting the right platform services and architecting the solution in a cost-effective manner
• Deploy Azure DevOps and CI CD processes
• Deploy logging and monitoring across the different integration points for critical alerts