Big Data Engineer – careem Full Time

About the role:

As a Big Data Engineer at Careem, you’ll be part of a team that builds solutions and tools to enable, organize and process large amounts of data. You will be working with batch and real-time technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Spark streaming, Kafka, Cloud computing, and storage to help Careem becoming a data-driven company.

Some of the problems the team is working on are: building a tool to enable business areas to create real-time metrics, automating jobs and pipelines and delivering fast and reliable software.

Requirements:

Essential:

• 3+ years hands-on experience in Object-Oriented programming and data structures algorithms
• Proficient in languages such as Java, Scala or Python
• 2+ years of experience working with big data technologies like Spark and/or Kafka
• Ability to break down larger problems into smaller ones
• Ability to craft object-oriented models and design data structures
• Understanding of distributed processing tools such as Hadoop/Map Reduce

Desirable:

• Experience with real-time streaming technologies like Kafka streaming/Spark Streaming/Flink
• Working knowledge of containerization (Docker), and supporting technologies
• Experience with orchestration and build tools such as Airflow, SBT, and Maven
• Exposure to AWS data services and technologies (EC2, S3, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Data Pipeline, DynamoDB)
• Knowledge of Relational Databases
• Understanding of the Elastic Search

…Oh, and also, we’re looking for someone who can take ownership, who is of service and who shoots to the moon and beyond. Is this you? We’re looking forward to seeing your application! 🚀

What do we offer you?

Working in an international environment with colleagues from 70+ nationalities, a flat hierarchy, flexible working hours, unlimited (paid!) holidays and, the latest technologies and full ownership!