Senior Data Engineer

About the job

Ready to tackle data engineering challenges at a scale where billions of events are just another day at work?

And what if the systems you build could help shape the experience of millions of players?

If this sounds like your kind of thing, keep reading!

THE DIFFERENCE YOU’LL MAKE:

• As a Senior Data Engineer, you will architect and implement data pipelines and structure petabytes of data essential for making data-informed business decisions across different teams in Nordeus
• In this role, you'll collaborate with top experts, work with rich datasets, and leverage cutting-edge technology, while seeing the direct impact of your work on products and players alike

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Build large-scale data pipelines that process billions of events every day with data processing frameworks like Airflow, Kafka, BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform
• Design and develop our self-service Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence platform tools that enables our game teams to utilize data to bring the best experience to our players
• Design and develop ML pipelines to help our data scientists efficiently develop new ML models using our game data Use best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Design and implement a robust and scalable data lake leveraging proven methodologies for optimal performance Design data models for efficient data storage and rapid retrieval
• Manage the secure and efficient sourcing of external data from a diverse partner network
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality
• Optimize existing pipelines and maintain all game-agnostic related data pipelines

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

• You will work with other data engineers and different teams across Nordeus including Data Scientists, Business Analysts, Performance Marketing and Product teams

WE ARE A MATCH, IF YOU:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Have minimum 6 years of experience with:
• Python or other modern programming languages
• SQL and relational databases experience
• Custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• Have minimum 4 years of experience with:
• Workflow orchestrators such as Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Astronomer, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, or similar
• Data Warehouse Modeling
• Have experience working with a cloud or on-premises Big Data platform such as Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Azure Data Warehouse, SnowFlake, Databricks, Teradata, Hive, Presto or similar
• Have experience working with stream processing platforms such as Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Events Hub, RabbitMQ and similar

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience with public cloud providers GCP/ AWS/ Azure
• Experience querying petabyte-sized datasets using BigQuery, Trino, Hive, Impala, etc.
• Experience designing and implementing real-time pipelines
• Experience with data quality and validations
• Experience with SQL performance tuning
• Experience with anomaly/outlier detection

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE:

• The team behind the game: transparency and trust from day one, paired with a strong sense of teamwork- that's the essence of who we are. It's not just what you do - it’s how you do it and who you do it with. With 280+ teammates from around the world, we’re on a mission to bring the joy of winning to millions.
• We make your life at Nordeus hassle-free: enjoy Nordeus provided breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages, a fully-equipped gym, organized sports activities (yoga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, basketball, football), an ergonomic workstation, top-notch tech equipment (including laptop, mobile phone and bill coverage, and other tech), a kids’ playroom, a music corner, board and video games + latest consoles.
• Perks? We’ve got plenty: premium private medical insurance for you and your family, flexible working hours, take-what-you-need vacation policy, offsites abroad for the whole company, fully-paid maternity and paternity leave, employee stock purchase plan, access to L&D platforms and opportunities and many more.
• Make your mark on games played by millions: with over 300M registered users, Top Eleven is the world’s most successful football management game. Golf Rival, with more than 60M registered users, is the #2 mobile golf game, aiming to claim the top spot. With one more game in the works, we are continuing our efforts to create powerful mobile sports gaming experiences built to last.
• Meaningful career experience: work with experienced game makers and mentors who will support you from day one, helping you map a career path that's true to you.
• Impact beyond the screen: It is not just about us. We are part of something bigger than a job. We create a better future for generations to come through the efforts of the Nordeus Foundation.

GOOD TO KNOW:

• This is a hybrid, on-site position based in Belgrade.
• Our 3+2 hybrid model remains the standard - Monday to Wednesday in the office, Thursday and Friday are optional remote days. While we prefer working together from the office, we also understand that having some alone time or working from home (or some other location) can be beneficial. It’s about what works, not what’s prescribed.