Data Engineer

Job description / Role

We are supporting a growing Dubai based E-Payments start-up who is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join their team.

They are seeking to employ a creative and talented Data Engineer who loves data and is able to architect and develop their evolving data platform designed to support massive scale structured and unstructured real-time data. You will lead the distributed systems development and operations of their data platform and user facing APIs. Their programming stacks are a combination of pure functional languages (Erlang) and JVM-based languages (Java, Scala). Specifically, we are looking for an engineer to establish/support their distributed databases, container platform, cluster manager, distributed systems and datacenter operating system.

We can offer relocation assistance, a tax-free salary package and plenty of career development!

Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.
- 5+ years of professional experience focusing on building and managing data distributed systems infrastructure using open source software in a large-scale environment.
- Good understanding and experience of computer algorithms and preferably machine learning.
- Strong foundation in mathematics. Knowledge and experience
- Proficiency with agile development methodologies.
- Proficiency with linux/unix based systems.
- Proficiency with Big Data processing technologies (Hadoop, Spark)
- Proficiency with data warehouse solutions (Redshift)
- Proficiency with Git (Bitbucket, GitHub).
- Hands on experience with the latest technologies: Storm, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, HBase, ElasticSearch.
- Knowledge of: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Redis, RabbitMQ, Jenkins.
- Experience in a startup.

About the Company

Allegis Group retired the "Talent2" name and re-branded its specialist recruitment professionals brand to Aston Carter.

Aston Carter is a distinguished global provider of recruitment services to companies requiring highly specialised business professionals. We have an unrivalled commitment to delivering first class service to our clients and candidates across professional disciplines, including Information Technology, Finance, Sales, Risk, Credit, Compliance, Operations, Marketing, Audit, HR and Engineering. Although we are retiring theTalent2 brand, our continued alignment with your company's business objectives will remain unchanged. As part of Aston Carter, our global presence gives us access to additional high-level talent, solutions and industry trends to better grow with our customers.

With more than 60 offices across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, Aston Carter provides local, regional and global expertise to drive value and meet our customers' unique needs. Aston Carter is an operating company of Allegis Group, a global talent solutions provider and the world's largest privately owned recruitment firm.