Senior Data Engineer

About hireworks

hireworks is building a community of top talent in Bulgaria and unlocking unparalleled access to positions at leading U.S. based companies. As your employer of record, hireworks will ensure you have a seamless interview, onboarding and employee experience - providing ongoing support and resources along the way.hireworks was established in 2023 as a Bulgarian entity and is forging corp to corp relationships with U.S. based organizations looking to grow their teams with best in class talent out of Bulgaria. Working with hireworks means unlocking access to a network of local peers and mentors and career opportunities through our client network.

About our Client

A sophisticated relationship-mapping platform is redefining high-stakes advocacy by enabling organizations to influence the worlds most elusive leaders through their own trusted networks. Rather than relying on traditional broad-reach advertising, this technology utilizes massive public datasets to visualize the complex web of social and professional connections surrounding key stakeholders, such as C-suite executives, policymakers, and investors. By identifying the specific colleagues, advisors, and personal contacts who actually shape a leader's perspective, the platform allows Fortune 500 companies and global agencies to deliver strategic content directly to a decision-makers inner circle. This approach ensures that a brand's most critical messages bypass traditional gatekeepers and surface naturally within the private ecosystems where the most important business and policy decisions are actually made.

About the Position

As a Data Engineer in Research & Insights, you will be instrumental in developing our client's Decision Maker Insights product, whose objective is to showcase to customers the efficacy of our platform in achieving their desired outcomes. You will join a distributed team of skilled software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value. Daily responsibilitiesinclude building automated data ingestion and ETLs pipelines, aggregations, designing database schemas and performance optimization.

About You

• You are a software developer who specializes in data modeling, ETL pipelines, distributed computing and databases.
• You work with data warehouses, data lakes and all flavors of databases and know how to orchestrate/automate jobs processing large batch data.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals and software development skills in a server-side language (Python, Java, Scala, etc...)
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• You have designed relational schemas and worked with no-sql databases.
• You are intimate with data storage formats (JSON, Parquet, Avro, etc...)
• Experience tuning/indexing databases including column-based systems
• Experience working with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, etc.
• You provision your own cloud resources
• You have architected data infrastructure and ETL pipelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Your language of choice is Python and your cloud computing environment of choice is AWS
• Experience leveraging PySpark

Benefits

hireworks is cultivating a growing community of top talent across Bulgaria. In addition to unlocking access to positions at top tier U.S. based companies, we offer a variety of benefits to enhance your experience:

• Competitive Pay – compensation that reflects your experience and accomplishments.
• Remote Flexibility – work from anywhere in Bulgaria, with the option to use our Sofia co-working space.
• Paid Time Off – ample vacation days to rest and recharge.
• Public Holidays – all Bulgarian federal holidays are fully paid days off.
• Contract Flexibility – choose between a standard Bulgarian labor contract or a B2B set-up, depending on your preference.
• Supplemental Health Insurance – additional coverage available for team members on a standard labor contract.

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