Lead Software Engineer - Content Ingestion
We are currently prioritizing candidates based in Bulgaria. Qualified candidates located in the United Kingdom and Ireland are also encouraged to apply.Full-TimeLead
Salary28,000 - 34,000 EUR per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonElasticSearchKafkagRPCMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or event-driven architectures at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend programming language.
- Experience building and maintaining microservices that are reliable, observable, and scalable.
- 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.
- Expertise with relational or search databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
- Experience making technical tradeoffs in distributed systems related to performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve high-throughput data pipelines that ingest and transform large volumes of unstructured content into structured and enriched datasets.
- Drive technical direction and architectural decisions across ingestion systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- 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.
- Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Identify and lead high-impact technical initiatives, balancing speed of delivery with system stability.
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