Senior Data Engineer Medellin, Colombia, Remote

GraphQL Federation, Data Engineering, TypeScript/Node.js, AWS/Distributed Systems, SQL/NoSQL Databases, Mongo DB

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About the Client

Our customer is a leading global media and sports organization operating large-scale digital sports products across web, mobile and streaming platforms.

You’ll help build the next generation of a large-scale sports data platform, developing a highly scalable, cloud-based GraphQL API layer used across multiple digital products.

The platform ingests and processes data from hundreds of sources, with the team migrating existing data models toward a federated GraphQL architecture. Key focus areas

• Building and optimizing GraphQL APIs and federated subgraphs
• Designing scalable data services and data models
• Integrating data from multiple sources and databases
• Improving performance, reliability and observability
• Working with distributed, cloud-based systems at high transaction volumes

Your Team

You’ll work in a cross-functional engineering environment with senior engineers, architects, product teams and business stakeholders, contributing to technical design as well as hands-on development.

What's in it for you

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

Responsibilities

• Design and develop GraphQL subgraphs and backend services.
• Build scalable data services using Domain-Driven Design and TDD.
• Help evolve the platform toward GraphQL Federation.
• Improve monitoring, distributed tracing and observability.
• Write tests and deploy continuously through CI/CD.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and Scrum ceremonies.
• Work with product teams to turn requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

You have

• 5 years of experience in data engineering and data system development
• Handson experience in designing implementing and maintaining GraphQL schemas optimizing query performance and ensuring seamless data retrieval and manipulation for enhanced user experiences
• Experience with relational NoSQL and keyvalue data stores such as MySQL
• DynamoDB MongoDB Redis
• Handson experience working in a distributed cloudbased environment with high transaction volumes using a variety of connected services
• Proficiency with modern build strategies continuous integration unit testing and automated integration tests GitHub issue tracking tools like Jira and CICD related disciplines like GitOps
• Ability to design solutions provide estimates and evaluate risk and technical feasibility
• BS Computer Science Engineering a related technical degree or equivalent
• professional experience

Would be great, if you have

• AWS Certifications
• Experience at an online company in digital media or content creation
• Excellent team player and communicator capable of creating positive relationships across engineering product and architecture
• Energetic selfstarter who can work in a complex collaborative environment that rewards innovation initiative curiosity and mentoring
• Knowledge of sports