Remote Data Engineer (Python)

Description:

• Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps clients realize their product roadmaps, focusing on product design and engineering.
• The engineering teams work across various domains including telecom billing, ad tech, securities-based lending, and travel tech analytics.
• The company emphasizes innovation by anticipating future client needs, analyzing emerging technologies, and developing new products and services.
• The Data Engineer will focus on architecture, pipeline design, and development, contributing to the design and building of data platforms and analytics applications.
• Responsibilities include designing, building, and producing data-intensive applications and pipelines, adapting existing pipelines, extracting and cleaning data from external sources, diagnosing production issues, modifying SQL database schemas, collaborating with the DevOps team, and improving data engineering standards and processes.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably in Python, with Java as a nice-to-have.
• Experience with data analysis and a strong interest in Data Engineering and DevOps topics is required.
• Candidates should enjoy wrangling data and have experience designing and building data pipelines for reporting and analytics applications.
• Familiarity with tools such as Pandas, Snowflake, AWS (including AWS Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda), relational databases, SQL, AWS Wrangler libraries, and CloudWatch is necessary.
• Experience working with the Linux command line and on teams that have shipped and operated critical software systems is essential.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken, are required.

Benefits:

• The company offers a remote-first approach with options to work from offices in Dublin, Poznan, or Bratislava, or on a fully remote or hybrid basis, promoting a healthy work-life balance.
• Every employee receives a training budget and paid training days each year to upskill, covering courses, training, books, or conferences.
• Sonalake has a flat organizational structure that emphasizes open and honest communication, with no siloes or hierarchies.
• The company focuses on innovation by running projects to evaluate new frameworks, creating internal tools, contributing to the open-source community, and researching new applications for existing products.
• An indefinite period employment contract is provided, reflecting the company's commitment to being people-oriented and fostering a coaching culture.