Senior Data Engineer at Yoco

About the role

You’ll be a senior data engineer in the Data Engineering team, part of the broader Data and Analytics team at Yoco.

The Data Engineering team is responsible for building reusable cloud based frameworks, services and platforms, to simplify and scale (both time to market and volume) data processing. Data processing includes: data ingress, data egress, data transformation (filtering, aggregation and projection; including ML prediction) and data products; using batch based, real-time and hybrid processing models.

What you will be doing

• Design cloud based data processing frameworks and services and cloud based ML processing intensive frameworks
• Define services and standards, conventions and ways of work
• Develop high quality, maintainable and performant source code
• Collaborate cross-functionally with various stakeholders to ensure smooth interaction, and timely and relevant delivery
• Perform technical interviews, mentor team members and continually drive innovation within the team by nurturing a willingness to experiment and tackle complex problems together

Key requirements

• Good understanding of modern software engineering practices
• Good understanding of the modern data processing stack and experience implementing parts of it, cloud computing services (AWS/GCP), ML engineering practices and how to implement them
• Professional experience using Python for data processing
• Experience designing cloud based data processing frameworks and services or cloud based ML processing intensive framework
• Good communicator able to collaborate with various stakeholders throughout the organisation