Senior Data Engineer IV (Remote)

Agile Lab is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customisable 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 organisations 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 organisations with their data-driven transformation.

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

Salary: 60K - 70K

The opportunity

We are looking to recruit a Data Engineer IV to join our team. In this role you will be required to implement data intensive applications. To be successful as a Data Engineer, you should have excellent problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, and implements complex systems
• Challenges the 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 a problem
• Delivers complex systems, well-baked, and almost bug-free
• Proactively Identifies problems with requirements and project plan
• Go to an expert in one technological area
• Research and propose new technologies
• Detect possible performance bottlenecks
• Known for drama-free launches
• Can jump into an old project and fix it
• Consistently influence technical and business roadmap of services/products/projects
• Proactively identify and tackle tech debt
• Communicate with self-awareness
• When proposing something, at any level, is doing it in written form and providing the proper context
• Contributes to the career development of others

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 6+ previous experience
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop, Spark, and similar frameworks
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages, including Java and Scala
• Some knowledge of Data Mesh
• Expert in cloud-native technologies, IaC, and Docker tools
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent communication 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 our offices: Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania and Rende
• Real work life balance
• Training monthly budget (time and money)
• A structured career path with clear expectations and salary for each level
• Support of a buddy, as a guide in choosing the most suitable experiences for your ambitions
• Benefits and corporate welfare programs: company prizes and welcome pack with all the equipment you need to work
• Smart Working Plus experience: opportunity to work for 2 weeks abroad
• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you
• The opportunity to attend one conference per year
• Inclusive environment where you can be who you really are
• Stimulating environment oriented to growth, both professional and personal

How we work

• We don't like hierarchies: we work as a team
• We don't like bureaucracies, we prefer sense of responsibility
• We like data, certainly, so anything that is measurable
• We want to make a positive change in our industry
• Empathy, humility, collaboration, and willingness to challenge ourselves are the basis of our work