Blinkist offers the best selection of nonfiction knowledge, all in an app that makes it easy to fit learning into your life. Through audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.
Blinkist was created in 2012 right in the heart of Berlin. We’ve been selected as one of the Top 25 Startups in Germany by LinkedIn, and are amongst Berlin’s top 3 employers based on Glassdoor and Kununu ratings.
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Team: Data Engineering
Location: Berlin
Contract: 40h per week
Working hours: Flexible working hours with home office opportunities
Apply by: March 27th, 2020
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Why we need you
Today our learning platform generates more than 5 million events per day based on user behavior and engagement with our product that we enrich, transform, and transport to analytics applications to drive data insights. We are now getting to the next level of data challenges as we introduce new products for future growth and new initiatives.
Responsibilities
- You design, build and support scalable, high performance data applications, services, repositories and governance related applications.
- You adopt data architecture standards and establish software architecture best practices for big data management.
- You optimize and transform our data analytics infrastructure.
- You manage the technical scope, architecture, design decisions and documentation before, during, and after delivery as part of one of our cross-functional mission teams.
- You work closely with data scientists, product analysts, backend engineers and product/channel managers to ideate and ship new features and experimental projects.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software-development with a focus on backend or data engineering
- Extensive work experience in distributed data processing, serverless architectures, automation of data pipelines and/or other Big Data architecture best practices
- Experience working with languages such as Go, Python, Javascript Node, Ruby or Java
- Experience with building real-time analytics solutions and streaming platforms using any of the AWS Infrastructure and services (Kinesis, EMR/Spark, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS or similar public cloud offering)
- Comfortable working with Cloud Native databases (Redshift, Aurora or similar)
- Advocate of agile practices for rapid development of quality software, such as Clean Code, Pair Programming, CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and automated deployment
- Strong critical thinking and a result-driven mindset – You constantly challenge the status quo and want to come up with innovative and elegant solutions to improve engineering delivery and output to stay ahead of the market.
- Willingness to work with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences
- [BONUS] Working understanding of container and orchestration services such as Docker, Fargate, ECS/EKS
What’s in it for you
At Blinkist, we’ve flipped the script and moved beyond rigid classic management hierarchies. Instead, we value distributed authority amongst our team. We created our own Blinkist Operating System that grows along with us and fosters a unique company culture valuing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication, transparency, and mutual support.
We offer a comfortable office in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln with perks like a yearly €1,600 personal development budget, free plant-based lunch, a gym membership, public transportation pass, and 30 days of vacation.
Does Blinkist sound like somewhere where you can make a lasting, positive impact? Apply now and let us know why you’re someone we need on our team.
At Blinkist, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it and support it. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Link: https://www.blinkist.com/de/jobs/