Senior Data Developer, Opensignal
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Mobile analytics company
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Mobile analytics company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide the truth in mobile network experience.
Role
Who you are
- As a Data Developer, we would expect you to have previous experience in manipulating, processing, storing and extracting value from big data
- Advanced with big data tools, specifically Apache Spark
- Advanced with relational SQL databases. Prior experience with MSSQL, Postgres, AWS Athena (Presto)
- Advanced with SQL query authoring
- Experience with data pipeline / workflow tools i.e. Apache Airflow
- Experience with AWS cloud services like EC2, S3, managed Kubernetes, AWS ECS and Aurora
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python and Scala
- Experience in implementing complex clustering and classification models on large datasets to support new product development
- Experience in writing tests, especially in BDD style and working with Git
- Strong analytic skills in working with unstructured datasets
- Experience in root cause analysis of data when asked to answer specific business questions
- Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams
- Strong self-organizational skills
- Experience being part of a cross functional team, using agile methodologies
- Bachelor’s degree
What the job involves
- Own and improve our data pipeline. Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements, with engineering best practices in mind
- Champion building scalable and resilient data infrastructure, as well as tools to extract and transform data used by stakeholders and customers
- Be security conscious and sensitive to privacy concerns and legislation related to the data within the platform
- Have a continuous improvement mindset when it comes to both the platform and the process
- Work efficiently, automate manual processes where possible and take a test-driven approach to engineering
- Take a keen interest in improving the platform’s scalability while understanding the cost
- Be a good team player, with an agile approach and a can-do attitude
- Keep yourself current and make sure we follow best practices and engineering standards
- Be an advocate for the platform and its health. Take ownership of your work from conception through to support
- Be detail orientated and understand the importance of the credibility of our metrics. Document and communicate with stakeholders in a language understood by all
- Can work in a fast-paced environment with an ability to shift priorities and focus with changing requirements and market demands
- Able to coach and mentor Data Engineers in best practices
- Cross-collaborate with the wider team to drive and maintain high standards in our data pipeline builds
- Comfortable and effective at working in a remote capacity, collaborating with team members across different locations through digital channels
Our take
Opensignal aims to provide the truth in mobile network experience. It captures billions of individual measurements every day from over 100 million devices globally, enabling it to analyse real-world mobile network experience at the largest scale and frequency in the wireless industry.
Opensignal independently measures mobile user experience on every major network operator globally. Operators use its analytics and insights to make key business decisions to improve the experience they deliver. Analysts are able to judge the impact of investments and understand key trends in the market, and consumers use their reports to make informed choices about network providers.
To date, Opensignal has provided wireless market insights to customers such as McKinsey, Opera, Telefonica and ChinaMobile. Its reports have been covered by TIME Magazine, CNN and the BBC, while its research has also led to multiple papers published in scientific journals. Going forward, Opensignal is continuing to develop its services, using analytics to produce independent reports.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2018
$8m
SERIES B
Aug 2014
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $13.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options to share our growth
- Ability to work flexibly, including remote working
- Constant exposure to learning opportunities in your role and monthly OpenSessions (internal learning talks)
- Personal development budget for conferences, courses, materials and training
- Pension scheme, company-wide bonus, private healthcare and MacBook of your choice
- Regular socials and all-company events, from team lunches, to our monthly HQ socials and bi-annual away days
- HQ in Angel, London, filled with fresh fruit, coffee and an abundance of snacks and drinks, in an area buzzing with coffee shops, eateries, a local market and bars
- Our ‘Opensignalers’ – an ambitious, focused, international and friendly team
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Leadership
James Robinson
(VP for Research & Innovation)Previously Lead Android Developer at Staircase3 for 3 years and Operational Research Analyst at Tesco for 2 years.
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