WHY WE NEED YOU:

Are you interested in developing a large-scale data platform that guides the direction of products enjoyed by millions of players daily?

We seek a Senior Data Engineer who will architect and implement data pipelines and models essential for making data-informed decisions across Nordeus. In this role, you'll collaborate with top experts, work with rich datasets, and leverage cutting-edge technology, while seeing the direct impact of your work on products and players alike.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design and build a self-service analytics platform, giving game teams the power of data to improve player experience
• Partner with game teams, data scientists, ML experts and marketing experts to understand data needs
• Design, build and deploy our event ingestion pipeline that ingests billions of events every day
• Implement scalable and fault-tolerant data pipelines for moving and transforming data
• Create an MLOps framework that enables our data scientists to efficiently and independently build and deploy new ML models
• Design and implement a robust and scalable data lake leveraging proven methodologies for optimal performance
• Design data models for efficient data storage and rapid retrieval
• Manage the secure and efficient sourcing of external data from a diverse partner network
• Drive optimisation, testing and tooling to improve data quality
• Optimise existing pipelines and maintain all game-agnostic related data pipelines.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience with Python or other modern programming languages
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and relational databases experience
• 5+ years of experience with custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance
• 2+ years of experience with workflow orchestrators (i.e. Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Astronomer, Google Cloud Composer, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, or similar)
• 2+ years of experience with Data Modeling
• Experience working with a cloud or on-premises Big Data platform (i.e. Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Azure Data Warehouse, SnowFlake, Teradata, or similar)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with excellent communication skills

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience with public cloud providers GCP/ AWS/ Azure
• Experience querying petabyte-sized datasets using BigQuery, Trino, Hive, Impala, etc.
• Experience with multiple coding languages
• Experience designing and implementing real-time pipelines
• Experience with data quality and validations
• Experience with SQL performance tuning
• Experience with anomaly/outlier detection
• Experience with Airflow

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE:

• The competitive compensation package, perks and benefits: unlimited vacation days, flexible working hours, premium private medical insurance for you and your family, offsites abroad for the whole company, fully-paid maternity leave, employee stock purchase plan, access to L&D platforms and opportunities and many more.
• State-of-the-art workspace: Nordeus provided breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages, a fully-equipped gym, organized sports activities (yoga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, basketball, football, boot camp), an ergonomic workstation, top-notch tech equipment (including laptop, mobile phone and bill coverage, and other tech), a kids’ playroom, a music corner, board and video games + latest consoles. We make sure your life at Nordeus is hassle-free.
• High level of creative freedom: trust, respect, teamwork are the essence of who we are. We inspire and support each other to bring the joy of winning to the lives of millions.
• Playing your part in the future of our games: with over 300M registered users, Top Eleven is the world’s most successful football management game. Golf Rival, with more than 60M registered users, is the #2 mobile golf game aiming to claim the top spot. With one more game in the works, we are continuing our efforts to create powerful gaming experiences built to last.
• Working with experienced game makers: you will be a part of a multicultural team of over 280 employees from different countries.
• Making an impact: we are putting Serbia on the global map of gaming and working closely with the local community to develop the gaming ecosystem.