Software Engineer

Salt is currently hiring a Software Engineer for our client in Amsterdam.

The role is a 12 month contract, paying 100 euros an hour.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Software Engineer, you are responsible for the development, performance, and scaling of our online marketing and advertising systems. Important aspects of the job include:

Building and maintaining systems for data ingestion, transformation, and integration with tools such as Apache Spark, BigQuery, and Snowflake

Ensuring system reliability and performance by using monitoring tools and creating custom health indicators as needed

Working independently, taking ownership, acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences

Collaborating closely with adjacent teams, such as data analysts, data and machine learning scientists, and other engineering teams, to deliver on business objectives

Driving continuous improvements in system architecture to increase scalability, maintainability, and reliability

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 4-5 years of experience in software development with server-side programming languages (Java, Perl, C++, Python, Golang or similar)
• Experience designing and developing data pipelines and workflows for processing large-scale data
• Prior experience with big data technologies like Apache Spark, BigQuery, and Snowflake
• Familiarity with orchestration tools like Apache Airflow
• Solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Microservices
• Experience with distributed systems which are highly scalable and available
• Excellent communication; written and spoken and experience working with non-technical stakeholders
• High level of ownership - own your systems end-to-end
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly data-related services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub)
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Harness is a plus
• Python or Perl experience would be beneficial