Interview: Phone and F2F
Description:Primary Goals for the role (per the CTO): 1) Provide technical and project leadership for the Data Engineering team.
2) Primary project will be to help the Data team work towards the Data Warehouse replatform
3) Will also have responsibilities on supporting Data Engineering team with some of their daily maintenance/improvements of the existing Data Warehouse platform.
4) Team leadership & Mentorship for the Big Data team
Technical Requirements & Non-Technical (per the hiring Manager):Tech: Skills ot lead and impact the current platform in Hadoop, Scala, Spark, Hive, SQL (maybe some Python)The other requirements are not technical, but are equally important:- Experience pairing with other engineers from varied backgrounds- Customer Service focus- Valuing growth of others and mentoring Job Description: Sr. Big Data Engineer - 1 year contractWe're looking for great software developers to help us connect people with the legal help they need.Avvo is looking for passionate, lead developer to work on our Data Warehouse. You will work with a smart, driven team to transform Big Data into applications and services that help delight, connect, and inspire users. In this role, you have the opportunity to solve complex problems with the latest open source technologies.About You:- Minimum 8+ years experience with a proven experience building, debugging and optimizing complex distributed systems or backend services.
- Craftsmanship in distributed or data flow programming using Scala, Java and Python preferred.
- Intermediate SQL knowledge.
- Hunger for latest open source platform is a must.
- Collaborative, quick to learn and a drive for results with the balance between quality and quantity.
Ideally, you'd have:- Understand and deliver results with reliability, scale and performance optimizations.
- Demonstrated history working with open source projects.
- Established history with Big Data technologies. Production engineering with SQL, data warehouse design, and BI tools (such as Tableau).
About Avvo:Right now, you have an opportunity to join the team while it's still on the small side, and grow your career faster than you would at almost any other company. You'll be able to help shape our Data Engineering organization and define our culture.Avvo is a dog-friendly office! In addition to our awesome culture, we offer an amazing benefits package (we pay 100% of our employee premium costs and 50% of their dependents - plus 100% of your medical deductible), free legal advice, an ORCA card, up to three weeks of vacation your first year - and more!Avvo is centrally located in downtown Seattle just a few blocks away from the Westlake Center. We are a key member of Seattle's tech community and are backed by top venture capital firms, including Benchmark Capital, TCV, and others.