Senior Data Engineer for IMVU (remote) (offline)

Requirements:

— 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering/Software Engineering/Database Development
— Strong understanding of business, customer, product, and clickstream analytics, recommendations and personalization, A/B testing
— Database proficiency: experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
— Understanding of ETL and data curation
— Hands-on experience working with large data sets
— Proficiency with Scala and Java (and JVM ecosystem in general)
— Strong understanding and experience:
— MapReduce systems: Hive, Hadoop
— Spark, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming
— Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Connect / Kafka Streams)
— Workflow/job scheduling systems (Apache Airflow)
— Distributed query execution engines (e.g., Presto)
— Service-based architectures and containerization
— AWS (EMR, S3)
— CI/CD
— Upper-Intermediate English level

Preferable:
— Database/Data Warehousing background

Responsibilities:

— Work with the Data Engineering team to refactor, redesign, and improve the data platform
— Support architectural initiatives to improve reliability, resiliency, stability, and data quality
— Participate in the development of new projects
— Build ETL pipelines using Kafka/Spark/Hive
— Monitor the health of our system and optimize for performance and cost savings
— Support daily ETL jobs monitoring and participate in correcting any issues that arise
— Develop unit and integration tests

About the Project/Product:

IMVU is an online metaverse and social network. IMVU had over four million active users in 2014. The current number of active players is 6M+, and the site has a virtual goods catalog of more than 40 million items.
We are creating the next generation of VR social networks, based on a distributed, service-mesh-type architecture with underlying Java, MongoDB, GODOT engine, and other technologies, deployed via Kubernetes onto AWS and Google infrastructure.
We have a team in California and in Kyiv, Ukraine.

About Proxet

Proxet is a custom web, mobile and software development company offering customized and tailored technology solutions to a wide range of clients. With over 10 years of experience in building complex solutions for enterprise-level businesses, SMBs, and startups, Proxet has delivered over 100 projects in Healthcare, Marketing, Financial Services, Retail, Real Estate, Aerospace & Automotive verticals. As a custom software development company, Proxet also provides thought leadership and advisory services to fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 companies.

About us:
10+ years in software development
4 offices globally
150% company growth within 2 years
200+ engineers & experts
90% of our projects incorporate ML/AI
30+ early-stage & VC-backed startups
Enterprise clients with over $1B+ in revenue

What we do:
— Neural networks
— Computer Vision & Image Recognition
— Natural Language Processing
— Chat Bots
— Data Mining
— Voice Technology
— Big and Small Data Processing
— Building semantic analysis
— iOS and Android development
— Main languages: Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, Scala, JavaScript

Company website:
https://nation.proxet.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/proxet/