Data Engineer (DE 0924)

At Skroutz, our mission is simple: we aim to amaze. From our humble beginnings back in 2005, we believe that happy customers equal happy merchants and it’s our job to understand and anticipate their needs and offer them an unparalleled, doubt-free experience. 

Our vision is clear: we aspire to become the Everyday App, the go-to destination where millions fulfill their online shopping needs. Whether you're looking for a new smartphone, restocking your pantry with essentials, seeking the perfect outfit for an upcoming event, or simply hunting for that collectible gaming console, Skroutz is your trusted partner for seamless shopping experiences.

And our ambitions extend far beyond Greece's borders. We're on a trajectory to become one of Europe's fastest-growing Marketplaces, with exciting expansions already underway in Cyprus and the Balkans. Our commitment to customer satisfaction remains paramount, guiding every decision we make.

To achieve our vision, we seek individuals who share our passion for e-commerce and technology. If you're driven by the desire to create extraordinary shopping moments for our users, as well as help sellers all around the world grow their businesses, then we want you on our team.

Join us at Skroutz and be part of a journey that's reshaping the way we shop online. Together, let's turn everyday moments into remarkable experiences.

Ready for the challenge?

#AimToAmaze

Our engineering values

• Know your Tech. Develop and master your craft, sharpen your tools. Be proud of your work.
• Release early & Iterate. Deliver prototypes and start gathering important feedback early on. Use that feedback to guide you. Don't be afraid to compromise, make sure to come back & tidy things up.
• Be a team player. Offer your help, listen and seek to understand. Step up & take initiative.
• Don't over anything. Don't over-engineer, over-analyze, over-regulate, you get it.
• Enjoy your work. Celebrate success.

How will you contribute to Skroutz vision

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data Warehousing team and help us develop the data infrastructure that is able to ingest and transform data at scale coming from many different sources.

Our team aims to facilitate collaborative and effective decision-making by enabling analytical and reporting processes and bridging the gap between technical and business teams.

As part of the team you will strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals using various leading-edge technologies and software design patterns such as:

• Amazon Redshift cloud Data Warehouse
• Debezium distributed platform for Change Data Capture
• Amazon RDS relational database in the cloud
• Apache Kafka distributed event streaming platform
• Karafka Ruby framework for Apache Kafka
• Amazon AppFlow for automated bi-directional data flows between SaaS applications and AWS services
• ... and many more technologies that we will decide together as a team

You will play a key role in developing and maintaining our cloud-based multi-terabyte Data Warehouse with many multi-billion-row tables.

If you have a strong technical background, familiarity with several programming languages, strong SQL knowledge, experience in solving tough problems that use large datasets and you want to play a key role in building Skroutz's data platform you are definitely a perfect fit for this position.

What you will be doing

• Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and other data consumers within the company to gather data and populate the data warehouse table structure, optimizing it for reporting
• Evaluate business needs and objectives
• You will use various methods to transform raw data into useful data systems
• Develop, maintain, and support ETL/ELT processes for loading data from multiple data sources into a Redshift data warehouse
• Own and maintain a large, multi-terabyte data warehouse, including performance tuning and data retention/purge processes
• Utilize APIs for access to 3rd party systems
• Explore ways to enhance data quality and reliability
• Design and support the business’s database and table schemas for new and existing data sources for the data warehouse

Requirements

Requirements

• Previous experience in Data Engineering or similar role
• Knowledge of at least one general-purpose programming language
• Expert-level SQL knowledge
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design
• Familiarity with Kimball dimensional and 3NF modeling standards
• Experience in working with a variety of data sources such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, S3 and MongoDB
• We will appreciate if you have

We will appreciate if you have

• Experience with AWS Redshift
• Experience working with other AWS data technologies such as S3, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Data Pipeline, EMR, RDS, and Kinesis
• Familiarity or experience working with big data solutions such as Apache Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Familiarity with Change Data Capture (CDC) set of software design patterns
• Experience with Ruby and/or Python and Linux shell scripting
• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as Tableau

Benefits

• A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming one of Europe’s fastest growing Marketplaces
• Thrive in an environment that champions ambitious goals, empowers autonomy, fosters mentoring, and unlocks exciting opportunities for both personal and business growth
• Competitive full-time salary
• Ongoing training and development
• Access to books, online courses, and relevant resources
• Top of the Line tools and equipment
• Private Medical Plan
• Hybrid Working
• Free gym membership at Golden Gym in Athens, plus OAKA cross training & running courses, Padel and online yoga
• For all New Skroutz Fathers we offer 30 working days paternity leave (1,5 months in total)
• Monthly childcare allowance for all Skroutz Parents
• Free Skroutz Plus subscription

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Skroutz is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

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