Senior Software Engineer
About You.
Are you an experienced Software Engineer with strong database knowledge, who wants to design and build Data pipelines within a scaling-up digital entertainment app that’s at the forefront of the new "online" way of socialising? Do you have excellent Java script skills, in particular the Node JS framework?
Are you looking to work somewhere you're part of a team who take pride in working together?
Does working within a team who are straightforward, constantly challenging themselves and always learning with a genuine love for what they’re creating appeal?
We’re looking for someone who is energetic and proactive who is fascinated by modern data stacks and enjoys digging into the schemas and file formats.
About Us.
The World’s Online Festival (or WOLF for short) is a fast-growing community-oriented platform dedicated to bringing the magic of real-world festivals to the online world – uniting people across the globe in discovery, entertainment and belonging. WOLF is a space for freedom and creativity in your online life—whether that’s participating in live shows, chatting, or discovering talent – all wrapped up in a fun community.
The Role
We’re looking for a data engineer to help us create data pipelines and shape the data for our fascinating and unique chat and entertainment app for iOS, Android and the web – WOLF, The World’s Online Festival.
The ideal candidate will have a background in software engineering, experience in an analytics field, working with multiple data sets to help generate data-driven decisions.
Ideally you would be familiar with the modern data stack, data warehouse solutions and the world of mobile and web apps.
This position is based full time in our offices in Cramlington and can be partly remote.
Responsibilities
● Implement new technology to leverage data across the business
● Partner with BI team, marketing/community teams, and finance team to solve problems, and design data processes
● Design, manage, and support the data infrastructure, alongside implementing principles and processes to ensure that the platform remains highly automated, self-servicing and able to scale as we continue to grow.
You’ll work across the following four key areas:
1. ETL/ELT
● Connecting various data sources to our data warehouse solution in Google BigQuery
● Developing and implementing procedures for secure and effective data management.
● Implementing data definitions, data mappings and providing support across ongoing
integration activities
2. Data warehousing
● Creating data transformation pipelines and generating reports tables for analytics
● Writing SQL unit tests for data transformation scripts
● Running regular quality checks on data
3. Business intelligence
● Working with our BI team to deliver data engineering support for existing BI reports
● Working collaboratively with software engineering teams to understand and define
application and platform data requirements.
4. Data infrastructure
● Managing our data ingestion pipelines with infrastructure as code
● Managing data transformation pipelines with SQL and Git
● Providing recommendations on data architecture and process improvements on an
ongoing basis
The successful candidate will need to be highly technical, follow a hands-on approach, and have extensive experience managing and analysing data.
Requirements
● Experience with the Cloud, ideally AWS with a desire to learn Google Cloud
● Previous experience of working with products that have regular releases through automated CI / CD processes
● An Agile background with experience in the use of tools such as Jira, Confluence etc
● Solid experience working with ELT/ETL tools
● Have an in-depth understanding of database structures and principles.
● Experience troubleshooting application and data platform related incidents through to resolution
● Experience working with and developing continuous integration (CI) and continuous
development (CD) environments
Required Technical Knowledge
● Good working knowledge of AWS services (ECS, EC2, Kinesis, etc.)
● Familiar with serverless, event-driven technology such as AWS Lambda
● Hands-on experience working with databases, i.e. AWS MySQL, DynamoDB.
● Experience working with Snowflake or BigQuery data warehouse.
● Experience with Node.JS.
● Experience of scripting languages such as Python is highly desirable.
● Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure as a Code (AWS Cloudformation, Terraform).
● The ability and appetite to learn and use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools.
About WOLF
WOLF’s mission is to bring the magic of real-world festivals to the online world – uniting people across the globe in discovery, entertainment, and belonging.
We bring together a lively and interactive community of producers, show hosts, radio presenters, singers, poets, comedians, musicians, DJs, and fans. We have stunning stages across thousands of different groups hosting live and interactive audio shows and festival events, as well as after-show gatherings and socialising. Entertainment is how we stand out, built on a foundation of friendship, community, and supporting emerging talent.
Festivals are a place where everyone can be their true self and it’s no different here at the World’s Online Festival. At WOLF, everyone is appreciated equally for being themselves. It’s even built into our Brand Values! We’re creating a work environment that is truly representative of our diverse society, where every colleague feels respected and is able to give their best when at work. And when we have happy employees, we can then deliver the best experience to our users.
Benefits
● Working alongside a brilliant team – with a culture of excellence and innovation.
● 20 days annual leave.
● Flexible/hybrid working (dependent on the role).
● Early finish Fridays.
● Employee dental insurance.
● Employee life assurance, with discounted rates for family members.
WOLF is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination where it may exist. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each colleague to feel respected and able to give their best when at work.
