Senior Software Developer, Data Technology

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Requirements:

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 5-8 years of experience in developing and maintaining software or an equivalent level of education or work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale; ideally experienced with languages like Python, Scala, Java, Go, and shell script
• Passionate interest in data engineering and infrastructure; ingestion, storage and compute in relational, NoSQL, and serverless architectures
• Experience with various types of data stores, query engines and frameworks, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, S3, Redshift/Spectrum, Presto/Athena, Spark
• Experience working with message queues such as Kafka and Kinesis
• Experience developing data pipelines and integrations for high volume, velocity and variety of data
• Experience with data warehousing and data modeling best practices

Responsibilities:

• Work within a cross-functional team (including analysts, product managers, and other developers) to deliver data products and services to our internal stakeholders
• Conduct directed research and technical analysis of new candidate technologies that fill a development team’s business or technical need
• Provide technical advice, act as a role model for your teammates, flawlessly execute complicated plans, and navigate many levels of the organization
• Contribute enhancements to development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, reliability and performance
• Implement our technical roadmap as we scale our services and build new data products
• Participate in code reviews, attend regular team meetings, and apply software development best practices
• Take ownership of your work, and work autonomously when necessary
• Recognize opportunities to improve efficiency in our data systems and processes, increase data quality, and enable consistent and reliable results
• Participate in the design and implementation of our next generation data platform to empower Hootsuite with data
• Participate in the development of the technical hiring process and interview scripts with an aim of attracting and hiring the best developers