Data Platform Engineer

ABOUT HELCIM

Helcim was founded with a mission at heart : to be the worlds most loved payment system. We believe that by offering small businesses in North America a decidedly human payment solution where it is easier to sign up and use while being transparent and affordable we can empower them to grow and prosper. Simply put helping small businesses thrive is at the very core of our business model and we think thats a great way to do business.

From the very start we knew that we wanted to be different from every payment processor out there. We want the merchants we serve to feel supported and see us as a trusted partner rather than simply just another cost of doing business. We are relentless in our pursuit to provide a radically transparent and honest payments solution that flat out saves business owners money all while treating them like human beings.

THE ROLE

Helcim is searching for a Data Platform Developer to be responsible for building and maintaining our data platform that powers Helcim in its mission to become the worlds most loved payments company.

As a member of a diverse and collaborative team you will be joining Helcims data centre of excellence creating the infrastructure that enables Helcim to generate deep insights into our work. This will involve expanding upon our existing AI tooling continuously improving our platform architecture as well as ongoing real-time modeling monitoring of our data (across structured and semi-unstructured data). Youll be working in a highly colla borative environment across multiple functions to design & develop scalable data assets & products.

Here are the things youll own day to day :

• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines across structured & semi-unstructured data to serve our machine learning models AI systems and business intelligence needs.
• Expand upon our existing AI tooling to implement solutions for data analytics & data management needs.
• Help define our data governance needs and build out automations and AI tools to ensure our data platform matches them.
• Continuously improve our existing self-hosted data platform infrastructure while ensuring optimal performance.
• Enhance Helcims data centre of excellence by equipping teams with the necessary data and tools. Fostering broader interaction and contribution to the data platform by providing training conducting code reviews and co-designing solutions with other Helcim members.

A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Youre an experienced data professional who thrives on solving complex real-world business problems. You have a track record of building reliable & resilient solutions that enable business-impacting decisions.

Qualifications & Experience :

Key Competencies :

Bonus points if you have :

Being builders : We build things ourselves and we build them well. We use technology and our creativity to overcome challenges that would seem beyond the capability of a company our size. We improve what is already there invent our way out of problems and we never stop dreaming of better.

Choosing the harder path : We believe that the right decisions are usually the harder ones so we embrace the challenge and endure when others quit. We choose what is difficult because it is more rewarding in the long-term and makes us resilient so that we not only survive but thrive.

Creating trust : We earn trust by striving to be our best selves every day and by lifting those around us. We recognize that trust is hard to earn easy to lose and is tested continuously over time so we make trust our way of life.

Contributing to a company of many : We are stronger because of our collective passion diversity and fellowship. We believe only great teams can accomplish great things and we ask the very best of each other. Together we create our own future.

WORKING AT HELCIM

Joining Helcim means joining a fast-growing company where we have found coming together makes us a strong company. We have a drive to achieve big things which creates amazing opportunities for everyone willing to work hard and contribute to that growth - opportunities for faster career growth for more learning more impact and accelerated experience - all while surrounding yourself with incredible people working on interesting problems and delivering great results.

Here are some of the reasons we attract such great people :

The Way of the Helcim : At Helcim we build a team of engaged caring and intelligent return we provide an environment where you can be excited to come to work each day and tackle these challenges with an amazing team. Learn more about Helcims unique culture and environment in our culture book

The Way of the Helcim .

Health and dental benefits : Through our Group Benefits youll get access to dental benefits extended healthcare benefits for drugs vision paramedical coverage (e.g. massage therapists dieticians mental health professionals) counseling health service navigation life insurance critical illness and disability insurance and more. All of these benefits come into effect on Day 1 of employment!

Dedicated Health Spending Account (HSA) : An additional budget available for you to spend on health-related expenses (e.g. eyeglasses therapy).

Maternity and Parental Leave : To help launch our team members into this phase of family life we have some additional benefits in place including salary top for the birthing parents and a bonding break for non-birthing parents.

Stock Options : Stock options enable our team to purchase Helcim shares at a future date at a specified price. Every team member not just people leaders and executives receive equity (aka ownership in the company).

Vacation Time : All team members get paid vacation time and a company break in December so they can recharge when they need it.

Flexible work location : Work and life happens at different times and places. This is why our team enjoys the flexibility of hybrid work and flexibility around hours of work so we can all do our best work. Our hybrid work schedule offers flexibility to work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Furthermore our core hours give team members flexibility to manage other parts of their lives.

Training : Helcim will cover 50% of the applicable training costs of up to $500 per year.

LOGISTICS

Job type : Full-time

Hiring manager : Sam Elliott

Location : Hybrid In Office Mondays Wednesdays Fridays

Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada and be located in Calgary for this position.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Hadoop,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Apache Pig,NoSQL,Big Data,Data Warehouse,Kafka,Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1