Senior Staff Engineer I (Remote)

Agile Lab is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customizable solutions that establish performance-driven processes, sustainable architectures, and automated platforms based on data governance best practices.

Having delivered over 100 successful Elite Data Engineering initiatives, we have used this experience to create Witboost: a modular, technology-agnostic platform that enables modern organizations to discover, value, and produce their data in both traditional environments and fully compliant Data Mesh architectures.

With a highly skilled team of over 130 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organizations with their data-driven transformation.

Take a look at our handbook to discover our core values and processes.

We are looking to hire a talented Staff Engineer to develop and manage our Big Data solutions. In this role, you will be required to design and implement Big Data tools and frameworks, data-intensive applications, and cloud platforms.
To ensure success as a Big Data Engineer, you should have in-depth knowledge of distributed computing technologies and top problem-solving skills.

Salary: 62.5K - 72.5K + up to 8K bonus

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, and implements complex systems
• Challenges team processes, looking for ways to improve
• Mentors junior engineers via pairing, design, and code review
• Builds software solutions by adhering to our quality standards about SDLC
• Makes active efforts to stay up-to-date with technologies
• Leads the technical design of complex systems
• Understands and optimizes system performances
• Takes the initiative to fix issues before they become problems
• Delivers complex systems, well-baked, and almost bug-free
• Proactively identifies problems with requirements and project plans
• Becomes an expert in one technological area
• Researches and proposes new technologies
• Detects possible performance bottlenecks
• Known for drama-free launches
• Can jump into old projects and fix them
• Influences the technical and business roadmap of services/products/projects
• Proactively identifies and tackles tech debt
• Communicates with self-awareness
• Proposes solutions in written form with proper context
• Contributes to the career development of others
• Is sought out for technical guidance and is seen as a resource by others
• Creates sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability of major business-critical systems
• Can discuss at the same level with tech-vendor engineering teams
• Debugs complex problems encountered by the team
• Resolves tech and business problems effectively
• Removes roadblocks for multiple projects/products
• Acts with full autonomy based on strategy
• Has made a significant positive impact on the company's technical/business trajectory
• Identifies technological improvement areas for the organization
• Focuses on efficiency, introducing new practices, processes, and standards
• Listens, guides debates, and helps reach consensus; communicates decisions clearly
• Sets short to medium-term strategic technical or operational directions, looking 6-12 months ahead
• Clearly communicates technical vision and helps teams and stakeholders follow it
• Proactively identifies and communicates lack of clarity in overall strategy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 7+ years of experience in the field
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop, Spark, and similar frameworks
• Proficiency in Java and Scala
• Expertise in cloud-native technologies, IaC, and Docker tools
• Excellent project management skills
• Proactivity
• Business and functional understanding
• Team player
• Ability to solve complex networking, data, and software issues
• Leadership capabilities

We offer

• Full remote or hybrid working in Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania, and Rende
• Work-life balance
• Monthly training budget
• Structured career path with clear expectations and salary levels
• Support of a buddy for guidance
• Benefits and corporate welfare programs
• Opportunity to work abroad for 2 weeks
• Referral bonus
• Attend one conference per year
• Growth-oriented environment

How we work

• No hierarchies; we work as a team
• No bureaucracy; responsibility is valued
• Aim to positively change our industry
• Values of empathy, humility, collaboration, and self-challenge