Data engineer director

Connected-Stories is the first Creative Management Platform built to transform your video into data-driven actionable creatives to deliver personalized consumer experiences in real-time, at scale. The company’s mission is to bring together Advertisers, Creatives, Data and Media Professionals to create engaging, informative and relevant data-driven video advertising strategies for every stage of the consumer journey. Connected-Stories implements a patented model to produce video ads in real-time and at scale. The platform synchronizes videos and interactive widgets using multiple layers orchestrated by machine-learning algorithms.

The following is a description of an average member of our team:

• Quite young is just an indication that we like to invest in young talents regardless of the years of experience they have.
• Driven by great passion for technology: the ones who love their job perform better with less effort
• Knowledge cruncher, the world runs fast and you have to stay up to date, read a lot and learn from those who have already faced a problem before you is definitely the right path to take
• Passionate about everything around programming
• Beer lover, it helps to think better :)

Looking for a smart person who is strongly result oriented and able to achieve it analytically. This role requires a person who has strong knowledge of distributed systems and data processing optimizations.

• Create and improve ETL pipelines.
• Create and manage ML ops pipeline
• Design and implement ML training pipeline
• Design and implement data integrations with partners
• Manage and coordinate data engineer and data scientist team
• Report directly to CTO and CEO

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably GCP).
• Proficiency with Python.
• Experience building REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with distributed processing system frameworks.
• Good knowledge of shell scripting.
• Good knowledge of containerized applications.
• Proven experience with Business Intelligence tools.
• Excellent analytics skills.
• 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Being a team player.

• GCP Certifications.
• Experience with BigQuery.
• Experience with Apache Spark/Apache Beam.
• Experience with containers and microservices.

• Hardware
• Annual budget for training

Project management

Issue tracking: Atlassian JIRA

Team communication: Slack, Google meet

Methodology: Agile-Scrum

Development

Version Control Software: GIT

Platforms: Bitbucket

Backend

Framework: nodejs, express, sequelize

language: Python, Bash, Java

Architecture

Cloud services: GCP

Containerization: Docker, Cloud Run, ECS, Kubernetes Engine, VertexAI and more

Persistence: Redis, MySQL, BigQuery, Datastore

Data pipeline

Processing:  Dataflow, Dataproc, cloud functions, cloud run jobs

Storage: Cloud Storage, Big Query, Featurestore, Bigtable

Traits we value

• Knowledge of javascript, python and all modern tools around them is a must.
• Computer science or engineering degree
• Open source contributor
• Personal github repository
• Experience/certification on Google Cloud Platform.
• Academic papers published



Location: Remote (preferably europe/Rome)