Data Engineer, Adthena
+ Stock Options
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Competitive intelligence platform for paid search advertising
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Competitive intelligence platform for paid search advertising
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise search marketing through “Unrivalled Competitive Clarity”.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for someone who loves writing code, solving hard problems, staying ahead of emerging tech, and driving engineering excellence
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- Commercial experience developing Spark Jobs using Scala
- Commercial experience using Java and Scala (Python nice to have)
- Experience in data processing using traditional and distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark, AWS - S3)
- Experience designing data models and data warehouses
- Hands-on experience applying Gen AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, or system design
- Strong understanding and application of data structures and algorithms in building efficient solutions
- Experience in SQL, NoSQL database management systems (PostgreSQL and Cassandra)
- Commercial experience using messaging technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Experience using orchestration software (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)
- Confident in building complex ETL workflows (Luigi, Airflow)
- Good knowledge of working with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)
- Good knowledge of using monitoring software (ELK stack)
- Motivated problem-solving skills, ability to bring ideas forward and adapt solutions to complex challenges
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Vasanth John, VP of Engineering
- Athena's data team is a market leader in developing complex ETL and machine learning solutions
- The Adthena data team is dealing with hundreds of millions of data points every day, generated from over two thousand data processes running through workflows, huge distributed computations in Spark, and streaming data coming in twenty-four hours a day at hundreds of times a second
- Our engineering culture is underpinned by sharing knowledge, coaching and growing together
- You will have the opportunity to explore/innovate new technologies, mentor engineers, and lead Technology initiatives
- You will enjoy this role if you love writing code, learning cutting-edge new technologies, solving problems and winning as a team
- As a Data Engineer, you’ll work across the entire stack and help shape the future architecture of our complex data systems
- You’ll collaborate closely with Web and Data Science teams to deliver user-centric solutions—while using modern tools, including Gen AI assistants, to accelerate development, improve quality, and amplify team velocity
- Understand distributed technologies and the best practices around them
- Build and maintain services/features/libraries that serve as definitive examples for new engineers
- Design and write effective, complex Spark jobs (data processes, aggregations, pipeline)
- Design and write complex asynchronous, highly parallel, low-latency APIs and processes
- Use Gen AI tools (e.g. code assistants, AI docs) to boost speed, quality, and team efficiency
- Work as part of an Agile team to maintain, improve, and monitor Adthena's data collection processes using Scala and Java
- Apply industry practices such as TDD and SOLID, and also Adthena's Engineering Practices
- Understand and be able to apply data structures and algorithms
- Understand Adthena's data architecture and use appropriate design patterns
- Design and implement databases for relational and non-relational storage technologies
- Support our Data Science team to help deliver their machine learning models into production environments
- Be empathetic towards team members and customers
- You’ll work closely with:
- Paul Felby: Chief Product & Tech Officer
- Vasanth John: VP of Engineering
- Ivan Nikolov: Lead Technical Architect
Application process
- Interviews: 3 stages
- Start Date: ASAP
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Adthena’s products help marketers target and reach consumers that matter the most to their business according to their business objectives.
Adthena works with more than 250 clients across 18 different business sectors, including finance, education, gaming, automotive and technology. Customers include household names like Autotrader, Air New Zealand, Atlassian, Citibank, Burberry, Toyota, and Volvo.
Its products are also used by marketing specialists like GroupM and channel-specific paid search experts like iProspect, which is a good sign that its product is high value add.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2019
$5m
EARLY VC
Mar 2019
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $23.3m
Company benefits
- Remote-Friendly
- Untracked annual leave
- Flexible working environment
- Receive stock options. Our employees do incredible work, so as we grow everyone shares the rewards
- Family care package (6 months fully paid maternity & 2 months paternity cover)
- Home Office Stipend
- Training & career development pathway
- Great culture- helping all employees to learn, grow and develop their skillset
- Join a company with an extremely fast growth trajectory. (We’ve now got three offices globally and we don’t plan to stop there!)
- WeWork office- Shoreditch location
- Free pair of trainers when you join (you choose what ones you want)
- Lots of social activities to join in; Regular off-sites, bake-offs, office table tennis tournaments and much more!
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Ian O’Rourke
(Board Member)Previously founded Treeview Estates, a 150 home retirement village outside of Sydney, and Oovie, a company that became Australia’s largest DVD kiosk operator before being acquired by Hoyts, the country’s top entertainment group.
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