Associate Data Engineer
Summary
Build and maintain data pipelines and backend services in Python/PySpark to power privacy-safe audience-targeting solutions for adtech.
Founded in Sunnyvale in 2015, we are a young, dynamic, forward‑thinking company working hard to develop the next‑gen, privacy‑safe, audience‑targeting solution. We tackle the challenges of a rapidly shifting digital landscape dominated by the big players head‑on with innovative partnerships.
What we offer
- Hybrid work arrangements with flexible working hour
- International working environment
- Discretionary bonus
- Wellbeing Allowance: health & wellness classes, gym subscription, workshops, work equipment, etc.
- Free Drinks & Snacks
- Social Events such as poker night, happy hour, birthday parties and more
What you will do
Listed below are the hard‑skills that would fit well in our current team setup:
- Curious about working with big data and pipeline architecture; basic understanding of relational database structures
- Comfortable explaining technical concepts in a concise manner to technical and non‑technical audiences
- Ability to implement backend services that will be running in AlikeAudience controlled environments or customer environments as managed or self‑managed services
- Understand the nature of distributed systems of modern architecture and implement systems that are resilient to service disruptions
- Review codebase and work on continuous improvements in terms of speed and efficiency
- Implement tests and deployments for mostly backend (and very few instances of frontend) systems which you have created
What you will need
In AlikeAudience, we care about you as a person more than your previous experience in a specialised role. We look for candidates based on who they are as a person, and their potential, not their previous achievements. Listed in the following is what we are looking for:
- Willing to put in the effort to learn new concepts and not being afraid of working in an unfamiliar environment
- Ability to write code in Python comfortably and efficiently; knowledge of PySpark will be considered favourably
- Open to working in a small team and ready to take on meaningful work early on in your career
- Good communication skills; ability to explain concepts in understandable English
- A good team player who understands that collaboration can lead to better results than doing everything by oneself
- Self‑motivated, responsible and able to handle multiple tasks concurrently