Job Description
Job Description
We are currently looking Senior Systems engineer, to join us in the Cardiff office. You will need to have demonstrable experience in Python technologies.
WHO ARE WE?
Privately owned and independently minded, Creditsafe operates with the singular vision of powering business decisions. We do this by delivering valuable intelligence on customers, suppliers and potential buyers to corporates, public sector organisations and SMEs globally.
Our journey began in 1997 in Oslo, Norway in 1997, with a revolutionary dream to make business information accessible to all. Twenty-five years later, we’ve not only realised this dream, changed the market for the better, made data intelligence accessible to all businesses big and small but most importantly, opened new avenues of data intelligence for businesses with machine learning, AI and connected data.
From risk management through to opportunity identification, our industry-leading solutions, power decisions for companies by turning their data into actionable insights that help them become stronger, grow faster and thrive.
THE TEAM
This opportunity is to join a team of highly technically skilled engineers, who are redesigning Creditsafe data platform with high throughput and scalability as primary goal. The data delivery platform is being built upon AWS redshift and S3 cloud storage. The platform expected to manage over billion objects along with daily increment of more than 10 million objects while handling addition, deletion and correction of our data and indexes in auditable manner. Our data processing application is entirely based on Python and designed to efficiently transform incoming raw data volume into API consumable schema. Team is also building high available and low latency APIs to enable our clients with faster data delivery.
JOB PROFILE
Join us to take the above project of redesigning the Creditsafe platform into the cloud space. You will be expected to work with technologies such as Python, Linux, Airflow, AWS DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, lambda, API Gateway, Terraform, CI/CD.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- You will actively contribute to the codebase and participate in peer reviews.
- Design and build metadata driven, event based distributed data processing platform using technologies such as Python, Airflow, Redshift, DynamoDB, AWS Glue, S3.
- As an experienced Engineer, you will play a critical role in the design, development, and deployment of our business-critical system.
- You will be building and scaling Creditsafe APIs to securely support over 1000 transactions per seconds using serverless technologies.
- Execute practices such as continuous integration and test-driven development to enable the rapid delivery of working code.
- Understanding company & domain data to make recommendations to improve existing product.
The responsibilities detailed above are not exhaustive and you may be requested to take on additional responsibilities deemed as reasonable by their direct line manager.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrate ability to write clean & efficient code and knit it together with cloud environment for best performance.
- You must have a high level development experience within a commercial environment creating production grade APIs and data pipelines in python.
- You are looking to grow your skills through daily technical challenges and enjoy problem solving, whiteboarding in collaboration with team.
- You have excellent communication skills, and ability to explain your views clearly to the team and are open to understanding theirs.
- Have a proven track record to draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technology issues.
- Share your ideas collaboratively via wikis, discussions boards, etc and share any decisions made, for the benefit of others.
BENEFITS
- Competitive Salary.
- Company Laptop supplied.
- Bonus Scheme.
- 25 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays).
- Hybrid working model.
- Healthcare & Company Pension.
- Cycle to work and Wellbeing Programme.
- Global Company gatherings and events.
- E-learning and excellent career progression opportunities.
- Plus more that can be found on the benefits section on the Careers page, https://careers.creditsafe.com/gb.
Creditsafe is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity. Please contact Creditsafe if there is any support you need with your application.