Data Engineer

Hard Rock Digital
London
5 months ago
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What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?


What’s the position?

We are looking for a data engineer to join our quickly growing product and technology teams. This position will report into our reporting team which will build data automation applications to ensure accurate and timely reports. Beyond reporting, this position has potential to grow to touch all aspects of the real money gaming operation, from customer service to data science applications.

As a data engineer, you will:

  • Be a strong technical person on our team who helps drive innovation
  • Be responsible for producing and maintaining critical data deliverables / pipelines
  • Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code
  • Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables

Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work. We are looking for individuals passionate about data in general, data technologies, and the use of these technologies to automate business processes.


What are we looking for?

We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. We believe the perfect candidate isn’t interested in just what we’re building right now, but wants to understand where we’re going and how it impacts the downstream consumer or customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: to optimize all aspects of online gaming and providing the best overall customer experience.


The ideal candidate will have:

  • Degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience (3+ years)
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills (both written and verbal)
  • Proven track record at using technology to automate data processes
  • Strong SQL skills, including Jinja templating / DBT
  • Experience with Snowflake and Airflow (Astronomer)
  • Experience with Java
  • Experience with Python including exposure to data science packages (NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn)
  • Experience manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets (Spark)
  • An understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable applications

Exposure to and interest in the following technologies:

  • AWS Serverless and serverless-supported languages
  • SQL and/or NoSQL experience (ex, MySql, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Snowflake)
  • Streaming technologies (Amazon Kinesis, Kafka)
  • Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)

Comfort working within an agile development cycle and exposure to:

  • Linux development
  • Git and versioning software
  • Build systems (Maven, SBT, Gradle, etc) and common build patterns
  • Experience automating data flows and reporting in a regulated environment a plus


What’s in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation and stive to be the best by providing:

  • Competitive pay
  • Flexible vacation allowance
  • Flexible work from home or office hours
  • Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
  • Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team


Roster of Uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer)

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