Junior Data Ingestion Engineer

Summary

Join EDITED's Product and Data team as a Junior Data Ingestion Engineer, contributing to the maintenance and improvement of our data ingestion platform. Collaborate with Data Operations, customers, and other team members to diagnose and resolve issues, build tools for data quality detection, and integrate them into our data processing pipeline. This role requires a quantitative technical mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and experience with data ingestion and processing. You will work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing tasks and balancing a varied workload. EDITED offers flexible working options, including hybrid work and flexible hours, to support a positive work-life balance. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for creative problem-solving and attention to detail.

Requirements

• A passion for creative problem solving and attention to detail – you love to dig into the root cause of an issue
• A proven ability to work within a fast-moving team and to prioritise and balance a varied workload
• Software development experience in a modern programming language like Python, Ruby, Javascript, Perl (Python preferred)
• Experience with REST Web Services, HTTP, DOM, CSS, XPath, RegEx and desire to build robust data-processing systems
• Comprehensive communicator in English, written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the data ingestion platform
• Liaise with the Data Operations team and customers
• Diagnose and fix issues with data ingestion scripts
• Build tooling to help detect data quality issues en masse
• Integrate data quality detection tools into the data processing pipeline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with web scraping – bonus points for Scrapy
• Understanding of HTTP, OOP principles
• Experience with data QA processes and/or web application testing (Selenium)
• Experience with Linux and using the command line
• Experience communicating with development teams, as well as explaining technical concepts to non-technical people, including clients
• A demonstrated ability to think logically and technically
• Experience with Agile Kanban methodology
• Experience with GIT version control

Benefits

• Utilise our flexible working policy to ensure you can work around your schedule – this means starting + finishing when it suits you best!
• Additional Health Insurance
• Gaming & relax areas
• MultiSport card
• Corporate discounts
• Employee referral program
• 25 days annual leave + public holidays (and an extra day for every year at EDITED )