Summary

Posted: Mar 5, 2021

Role Number:200228789

Looking for talented, passionate and results-oriented individuals to join our team to build data foundations and tools to craft the...Summary

Summary

Posted: Mar 5, 2021

Role Number:200228789

Looking for talented, passionate and results-oriented individuals to join our team to build data foundations and tools to craft the future of commerce and Apple Pay. You will design and implement scalable, extensible and highly-available platform to ingest large variety of data tapping into various sources, that will enable actionable insights & strategy for payment products. Our culture is about getting things done iteratively and rapidly, with open feedback and debate along the way; we believe analytics is a team sport, but we strive for independent decision-making and taking smart risks. Our team collaborates deeply with partners across product and design, engineering, and business teams: our mission is to drive innovation by providing the business and data scientist partners the outstanding systems to make decisions that improve the customer experience of using our services. This will include using large and complex data sources, helping derive measurable insights, delivering dynamic and intuitive decision tools, and bringing our data to life via amazing visualizations.

Collaborating with the head of Wallet Payments & Commerce BI team, this person will collaborate with various business and engineering teams to identify requirements that will drive the creation of a unified data management platform. We are seeking an outstanding person to play a lead role in helping the business users make decisions using data and visualizations. You will partner with key stakeholders across the engineering, analytics & business teams as you design and build a unified data management platform.

The ideal candidate is a self-motived team player, skilled in a broad set of programming techniques with the ability to adapt and learn quickly, provide results with limited direction, and choose the best possible data processing solution.

Key Qualifications

• 10+ years professional experience in designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable backend systems and web services focused on performance, scalability and reliability cutting across on-premises and cloud environments
• Expertise in developing backend systems
• In-depth understanding of Core JAVA, Concurrency, Multithreading, Java Collections Framework, reflection, Java IO & NIO and lambdas
• Work with relational and/or NoSQL database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, etc.
• Expertise in Python, Unix Shell scripting and Dependency driven job schedulers
• Strong fundamentals in data structures & algorithms, concurrency, object persistence, file systems
• Knowledge of containerization of applications using Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment pipelines is a plus
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to lead projects: participating in requirements gathering, implementation, and deployment
• Proven track record in architecting, crafting, developing and operating complex and scalable backend applications, reusable components or functionalities in server platforms.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills - collaborate effectively with peer engineering teams and cross-function partners,
• Familiar with micro-services architecture and server side technologies, such as RESTful API design.
• Familiarity with front end frameworks like React, Vue or Angular is a plus

Translate business requirements by business team into data and engineering specifications

Work with engineering and business partners to define and implement the data engagement relationships required with partners

Develop Python and Shell Scripts for data ingestion from external data sources for business insights

Build template systems to automate and manage metadata for analytics

Analyze complex data sets, identify and formulate correlational rules between heterogenous data sources for effective analytics and reporting

Build highly performing, low latency secure RESTful micro-services

Process, clean and validate the integrity of data used for analysis

Ingest data from third party data sources via API and data connectors

Build alerting systems to monitor data sanity

Comfortable and effective working in an Agile development methodology

Work with partners and strategize on long term business plans

Develop new and innovative applications as well as debug and refactor existing code

Mentor a team of hardworking engineers

Education & Experience

Minimum of bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology or EE, or relevant industry experience is preferred

Additional Requirements