Big data engineer Jobs in Waterloo, ON

Data Engineer

We are looking for a Data Engineer who can become a critical contributor to our product development & thought-leadership efforts. You will be part of a team that build new products that going to help online businesses reward their customers with roughly 12000 rewards programs.

About the Job

Responsibilities of the Data Engineer are :

Develop models to measure the health of merchants individual rewards programs

Determine important customer actions and aggregate customer data to track and how to best manage it

Find opportunities for improvement or development of features in products

Use large datasets of reward programs & customer behaviour to generate industry-leading reports and research publications

Work with Product Team and support their efforts in recommending new rewards programs and improvements to the largest clients in our business.

Youll be working with Rails Postgresql and Redis on the backend and the saviour that is on the front-end - all hosted on Heroku so we can focus on shipping a great product. We use Github Slack and CircleCI to communicate efficiently and ship code every day.

Requirements

About You

You love writing code crunching data and likes using a data oriented approach to solving problems in business. You love a challenge and arent afraid to tackle big messy projects. You enjoy collaborating with other developers and get excited about the experiences we give to thousands of people.

You have experience in :

Determining what data to gather to inform problem definition problem solving and opportunity discovery

Approaching open-ended situation sets of requirements and coming up with a plan of action

Working with large data sets and choosing the best tools to do so

Building models to simulate predict and evaluate simple & complex systems at scale

Exploring and segmenting customer behaviour data to uncover problems and opportunities (nice-to-have)

Benefits

The Team

Join a team of ambitious self-staters who likes think pragmatically yet efficiently about solving unique problems in the industry. Take part in a high growth environment where you will be pushed to improve upon the necessary to be able create more value.

Social

We create opportunities for fun there are plenty of interesting social events on the horizon.

Compensation Perks and Benefits

We offer competitive pay & health benefits while also providing you with a top notch equipment to make sure youre doing the best work youre capable of. We also have a monthly eCommerce credit as well as a transportation credit.

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. As an equal opportunity employer we welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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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