Associate/Software Engineer, Data Platform

Rakuten Viki; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Viki seeks a Data Engineer based in Singapore to translate data pipelines into reusable frameworks and improve existing applications. You'll perform root cause analysis on data systems and ensure adherence to best practices while coding.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, has experience in Data/Backend Engineering, and is proficient in SQL. Fresh graduates are welcome to apply, and experience with big data tools like Hadoop and Spark is preferred.

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of experience in Data/Backend/SRE/Platform Engineering.
• Good communication skills to explain technical concepts.
• A self-starter attitude with a desire to learn and improve.

Responsibilities

• Translate pipelines into scalable data frameworks for various processes.
• Perform root cause analysis on data systems for business insights.
• Maintain application workflows' correctness and performance.

Skills

Data/Backend/SRE/Platform Engineering

SQL knowledge

Experience with big data pipelines

Communication skills

Experience with Python or Scala

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related field

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Hive

Airflow

Job description

Role Summary

Based in Singapore, this role will report to the Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Translating the pipelines into reusable and scalable data pipelines and frameworks for ingestion, processing, storage and consumption
• Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data systems to answer specific business questions
• Improving and maintaining the existing application & workflows’ correctness, performance, SLAs and architecture’s integrity
• Upholding adherence to the right data engineering practices while building the data systems and pipelines, such as writing clean, efficient code, proper automation testing, CI / CD, logging, monitoring and alerting
• Participate in code reviews and ensuring high standards of code quality, in addition to ensuring that development guidelines are followed

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field
• 1-4 years of experience in Data/Backend/SRE/Platform Engineering
• Fresh graduates are also encouraged to apply and will be considered
• Good communication skills and are able to explain technical concepts, thoughts, ideas or issues to the other members of the team
• A self-starter and self-driven attitude with an appetite for continuous learning and improvement
• Good working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
• Experience building ‘big data’ data pipelines and data sets
• Working knowledge of the ‘big data’ stack such as
  • Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, etc. or equivalent
  • SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Orchestration or workflow management tools such as Airflow or equivalent
  • Any Cloud experience is good to have, but not mandatory
  • Stream-processing systems: Flink, Spark-Streaming, etc. or equivalent
  • Experience with one or more object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Scala or equivalent

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