Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer
Sofia/hybrid
Around 3600-5400+ EUR net/month + annual bonus 1.4 net salaries + benefits (including family insurance)

Nordic Recruitment & Consulting offers efficient IT and Cyber Security recruitment and business consulting in Bulgaria - and beyond.

Having long experience in recruitment we value above all those things that make us successful because of our clients, candidates and partners success: trustworthiness, good communication, Can do-attitude, finding solutions, being flexible; being available. We also have genuine passion for what we do.

The client company is a leading American fintech and financial services firm specializing in actionable commercial real estate research, data, news, and advisory services.

Responsibilities:
• Architect and build database schema, data ingestion models, ETLs, and testing to uphold data integrity and availability
• Develop, maintain, and optimize current data architecture and pipelines, while maintaining documentation
• Provide leadership and mentorship to junior team members through training, pair programming, and code reviews
• Collaborate with product, research, operations, and front-end teams to build innovative solutions to achieve business goals
• Perform analysis on large aggregated (e.g. demographic, geographic, GIS / spatial) datasets
• Able to overlap with US West coast 3 – 4 hours to handle hand-over discussions, triage issues, etc.

Qualifications:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or comparable experience
• Excellent programming skills with minimum 5 years of experience in Python (e.g. Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Flask, FastAPI, etc.)
• Extensive database skills with minimum 5 years of experience in either MySQL, SQL, or PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with Git is required; previous experience with the Atlassian product family (Confluence and Jira) is a plus
• Must enjoy collaborative problem solving, have excellent communication skills, and demonstrate attention to detail
• Prepared to work independently in a fast-paced, agile environment with the ability to multitask
• Track record of keeping up with new cloud technologies, languages, standards, and practices
• Prior knowledge of finance, real estate data, mathematics, or GIS / spatial data is a plus
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a remote team

Knowledge & Skills
• Excellent Python Programming knowledge
• Excellent scripting skills and an extensive knowledge of SQL with ability to write advanced queries to manipulate datasets
• Knowledge of and passion for database design, optimization techniques, and warehousing
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
• Ability to quickly learn, internalize complex pipelines, and efficiently troubleshoot bugs
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and CI / CD, and interest in front end technologies is a plus
• Prior experience developing scalable APIs (REST and GraphQL) is a plus

Working time: Monday to Wednesday 11-20h and Thursday and Friday 9-18h. People with small children allowed to leave to take them from kindergarten. 2 home office days per week. In the future there will be only one evening shift per week.

Interview process: 1. HR interview 2. Technical test or live programming session (you can choose) 3. Offer