Senior Data Engineer – Equity

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Senior Data Engineer enhancing backend systems and optimizing recommendation algorithms for a social media app. Contributing to the architecture and performance of the recommendation infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, optimize, and maintain tables and data structures to support recommendation and trending content data.
  • Work with structured data storage solutions, including PostgreSQL and JSONB, to manage recommendation and interaction data.
  • Implement and refine recommendation algorithms (e.g., collaborative filtering, content-based, and hybrid approaches) to enhance relevancy.
  • Use similarity search libraries like Annoy or Faiss to optimize recommendation speed and accuracy.
  • Continuously evaluate recommendation logic to better serve user preferences, ensuring real-time delivery.
  • Aggregate, analyze, and process user interaction data to support recommendations and trending content.
  • Design efficient queries and implement aggregation methods to capture relevant data and insights for recommendations.
  • Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data handling issues to ensure accurate recommendation delivery.
  • Optimize queries, processing workflows, and containerised services for high performance and scalability within AWS ECS.

Requirements:

  • Proven experience as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer, with a focus on recommendation systems.
  • Proficient in SQL and database management, especially with PostgreSQL and JSONB for structured data handling.
  • Solid understanding of recommendation algorithms (collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid approaches).
  • Experience with similarity search libraries such as Annoy or Faiss.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in building backend logic for data-intensive applications in a containerised environment.
  • Familiarity with AWS ECS for container management, including task scheduling and scaling.
  • Experience using AWS EventBridge to trigger workflows or automate tasks in response to application events.
  • Analytical skills for data aggregation, querying, and insights generation.
  • Strong debugging and optimisation skills for handling large-scale data processing in cloud-based environments.

Benefits:

  • This is an equity-only position, offering a unique opportunity to gain a stake in a rapidly growing company and contribute directly to its success.