Animoca Brands is hiring a
Data Engineer

Summary

The job is for a senior engineer to create and maintain optimal data pipelines at Animoca Brands, a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification. The role involves data pipeline design, data modeling, smart contract evaluation, process improvement, data extraction, transformation, and loading, analytics tool building, and working with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• You possess a strong technical background that includes 2+ years of experience working in a senior engineering position with data infrastructure/distributed systems
• Good understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is preferred
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipelines to streamline the digestion and organization of crypto-related data
• Transform, clean and maintain the data so other business units could easily access and analyze the data
• Design, build and maintain real-time data pipelines that process blockchain transactions from dozens of different blockchain networks
• Develop data models that translate complex, esoteric blockchain data into standardized formats that are analytics-ready
• Design automated systems that evaluate and parse the results of smart contract calls
• Work alongside the Data Science team to curate and prototype new data-sets to tackle emerging problems
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems

Benefits

• Dynamic and Multi-cultural work environment (15 nationalities and counting!)
• Token and NFT incentive schemes provided by Animoca Brands
• Flat company structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly
• Casual work attire
• Opportunity to get involved in working with various subsidiary brands
• Benefits (Medical / Life / Transportation Allowances)