Data Engineer

We consistently top the charts as one of if not the most used Sports Betting website in the countries we operate in. With millions of weekly active users, we strive to be the best in industry for our users.
As a Data Engineer at Sporty, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth processing and handling of data for our machine learning and data science initiatives. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, building, testing, optimising, and maintaining data pipelines and architectures for various aspects of our rapidly growing business.
Who We Are
Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds  and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.
Responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain scalable batch ETL and near-real-time data pipelines and architectures for various parts of our business, on fast and versatile data sources with millions of changes per dayEnsure all data provided is of the highest quality, accuracy, and consistencyIdentify, design, and implement internal process improvements for optimising data delivery and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalabilityBuilds out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexityCommunicate with data scientist, MLOps engineers, product owners and BI analysts in order to understand business processes and system architecture for specific product features
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field3+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, BI or related domainExperience in successfully implementing data-centric applications, such as data warehouses, operational data stores, and data integration projectsExperience with large-scale production relational and NoSQL databasesExperience with data modellingGeneral understanding of data architectures and event-driven architecturesProficient in SQLFamiliarity with one scripting language, preferably PythonExperience with Apache Airflow & Apache SparkSolid understanding of cloud data services: AWS services such as S3, Athena, EC2, RedShift, EMR (Elastic MapReduce), EKS, RDS (Relational Database Services) and Lambda
Nice to have:
Understanding of ML ModelsUnderstanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies like Docker/KubernetesRelevant knowledge or experience in the gaming industry