Senior Data Engineer, SecurityScorecard

• 5+ years of experience working in the Data Engineering space, and with building and maintaining big data pipelines
• 5+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product)
• Proficient in Spark (Scala preferred)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services
• Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase
• Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability
• Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management
• Strong attention to documentation and maintaining standards across projects
• Ability to present and defend technical decisions with confidence
• Skilled at estimating project complexity based on early documentation and discussions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives on building commercial products and plays a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications
• You will lead projects from start to finish, collaborating with Product Managers, and UX Designers to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure ongoing success post-deployment
• You’ll focus on simplicity while contributing technical insights to enhance the system's performance, stability, and user experience
• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance
• Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software
• Work closely with a global team, including engineers, product managers, and UX designers, to build a stable, high-performance platform
• Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime
• Translate requirements, estimate effort, and address or escalate blockers as needed
• Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing
• Own end-to-end projects, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers)
• Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors