About Us
At KI labs we design and build state of the art software and data products and solutions for the major brands of Germany and Europe. We aim to push the status quo of technology in corporations, with special focus areas of software, data and culture. Inside, we are a team of software developers, designers, product managers and data scientists, who are passionate about building the products of future today. We believe in open-source and independent teams, follow Agile practices, lean startup method and aim to share this culture with our clients. We are mainly located in Munich and recently Lisbon.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of talented Data Engineers and Data Scientists in a diverse environment.
- Ensure success of your team members and foster their career growth.
- Ensure that the technology stacks, infrastructure, software architecture and development methods we use provide for an efficient project delivery and sustainable company growth.
- Use your extensive practical expertise to help teams design, build and scale efficient and elegant data products on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Enable and facilitate a data-driven culture for internal and external clients, and use advanced data pipelines to generate insights;
Skills and qualifications
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or related fields;
- Substantial practical experience in software and data engineering.
- You are an authentic leader, keen on leading by example rather than by direct top-down management;
- You are committed to operational excellence and to facilitating team communication and collaboration on a daily basis.
- You like to see the big picture and you have a deep understanding of the building blocks of large-scale data architectures and pipelines.
- You have passion for data, be it at crunching, transforming or visualising large data streams;
- You have working knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or Go
- You have working knowledge of modern big data tooling and frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, etc.), data storage systems, analytics tools, and ideally machine learning platforms.
Why work with us
- You will have an opportunity to be at the frontline of innovation together with our prominent clients, influencing the car you drive in five years, the services you have on your flight, and the way you pay for your morning coffee.
- Working closely with our leadership team, you will have a real chance to influence what our quickly growing company looks like in 3 years.
- You get a challenging working environment located in the center of Munich and Lisbon and an ambitious team of individuals with unique backgrounds and expertise.
- You get the chance to work on various interesting projects in short time frames; we do not do work on maintenance or linear projects.
- We have an open-door work culture where ideas and initiatives are encouraged.
- We offer a performance-based competitive salary.