Senior Software Engineer, Content Ingestion
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We are currently prioritizing candidates based in Bulgaria. Qualified candidates located in the United Kingdom and Ireland are also encouraged to apply.Full-TimeSenior
Salary28,000 - 34,000 EUR per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5–8 years
- Required Skills
- PythonElasticSearchKafkaMySQLgRPCPostgresDistributed Systems
Requirements
- ~5–8 years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures
- Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend programming language
- Experience building and maintaining reliable, observable, and scalable services or microservices
- Experience working with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, or similar systems
- Experience with APIs and service communication patterns such as gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Experience working with large-scale data systems or high-throughput SaaS platforms
- Familiarity with relational or search databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch
- Ability to make thoughtful technical tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, and maintainability
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines that ingest and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured and enriched datasets
- Contribute to the design and evolution of ingestion systems, improving scalability, reliability, and maintainability over time
- Improve data quality, correctness, and enrichment workflows to support downstream systems such as Search and Data Science
- Build and operate distributed, event-driven systems and streaming pipelines with strong observability and fault tolerance
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Search, and Platform teams to deliver high-quality data that powers customer-facing features
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end, balancing speed of delivery with system reliability and long-term maintainability
- Support and mentor teammates through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
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