Data Engineer

Quantexa Limited; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company bonus

12% Superannuation

20 days annual leave

Private Healthcare

Regular salary benchmarking

Work from Home Equipment

Work from Anywhere policy

Employee referrals

Team social events

Learning & development access

Job summary

Quantexa Limited is hiring a data engineer to join our delivery team in Melbourne. You will integrate and build end-to-end data pipelines using our technology, handling large-scale data for domains like banking, insurance, and government.

You will solve complex data problems, transform and cleanse data, and work with modern tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and cloud platforms. A collaborative, problem-solving mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 18 months in a data engineering role or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Scala, Java or Python for data engineering tasks.
• Experience building production data processing pipelines and batch systems.
• Knowledge of testing libraries and differentiating unit vs. integration tests.
• Familiarity with Git, Gradle, Nexus and automation/DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Write defensive, fault-tolerant code for production data processing systems.
• Configure and deploy software using Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch on cloud platforms.
• Explain technical concepts to non-technical clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with solution architects and R&D engineers to promote standards for big data.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

Big data

DevOps

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Elasticsearch

Docker

Jenkins

Git

Gradle

Nexus

Job description

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.

If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

The opportunity.

Our Quantexa Delivery team is all about contextualizing data. As a data engineer, you bring it all together. Working within a fast-paced team, you'll implement Quantexa’s innovative technology for an ever-expanding list of domains including banking, insurance, government, healthcare. From building an end-to-end data pipeline that uses our award-winning software, to configuring our decision-making platform to detect key insights, there’s always a new challenge around the corner.

You’ll need to be a problem solver. The challenges we tackle are big, but they're also incredibly rewarding. Your contributions in managing, transforming, and cleansing high volume data help our clients solve business problems in areas including fraud, financial crime, data management, risk and customer intelligence.

What you’ll be doing.

• Writing defensive, fault tolerant and efficient code for production level data processing systems.

• Configuring and deploying Quantexa software using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Scala, Elasticsearch, with our platform being hosted on both private and public virtual clouds, such as Google cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon.

• You’ll be a trusted source of knowledge for your clients. And you’ll articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience so they can make key decisions.

• Collaborate with both our solution architects and our R&D engineers to champion solutions and standards for complex big data challenges. You proactively promote knowledge sharing and ensure best practice is followed.

What you’ll bring.

• You’ll have a background in hands‑on technical development, with at least 18 months’ of industry experience in a data engineering role or equivalent, and preferably some software industry experience.

• Proficiency in Scala, java, python, or a programming language associated with data engineering. Our primary language is Scala, but don’t worry if that’s not currently your strongest language. We believe that strong engineering principles are universal and transferable.

• As an expert in building and deploying production level data processing batch systems, you’ll share an appreciation of what makes a high quality, operationally stable system and how to streamline all areas of development, release, and operations to achieve this.

• Experience with a variety of modern development tooling (e.g. Git, Gradle, Nexus) and technologies supporting automation and DevOps (e.g. Jenkins, Docker and a little bit of good old Bash scripting). You’ll be familiar with developing within a version‑controlled process that regularly makes use of these tools and technologies.

• A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience of working in rapidly changing client environments.

• Knowledge of testing libraries of common programming languages (such as ScalaTest or equivalent). Importantly, you’ll know the difference between varying test types (unit test, integration test) and can cite specific examples of what they have written themselves.

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

• Competitive salary

• Company bonus

• 12% Superannuation

• 20 days annual leave, plus national holidays + your birthday off!

• Private Healthcare with Medibank, including dental, orthodontics & optics cover

• Regularly benchmarked salary rates

• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave

• Well‑being days

• Volunteer Day off

• Work from Home Equipment

• Novated Leasing

• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep

• Continuous Training and Development, including access to Udemy Business

• Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12‑month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy

• Employee Referral Program

• Team Social Budget & Company‑wide Socials

Our mission.

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start‑up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It’s all about you.

We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected – because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q. We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know – we’re happy to assist.

No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.