Engineering · Barcelona, Spain
At Kantox we are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Data team to design, improve and enhance our current data architecture. Kantox is a growing organisation with growing data needs, therefore scalable, reliable and efficient data architecture and orchestration of data pipelines are fundamental for our business. 🚀
This is an exciting full-time job with great challenges, as you will help build and automate our streaming data architecture and help us grow our Data team. You will be joining a vibrant and passionate group of software engineers that hail from all parts of the world. 🌏
Kantox is a team sport. Our engineering culture is devoid of egos yet we take great pride in our work. We believe in constructively challenging each other pushing our knowledge, code, processes to the absolute limit.
Our processes are based around continual self improvement, continuous code integration and deployment.
You will work closely with other Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analytics team and Cloud Engineering teams focussing on the development and management of data products across various domains, delivering data for internal decision making as well as for the visibility of our clients in a scalable and reliable way.
As a Data Engineer, you'll be a key player in evolving and optimizing data systems to support our Data Lake/Data Mesh infrastructure and data processing needs and enable us to create high-performance, scalable data products across the company, as well as a correct governance of the data. You will leverage and enhance our existing data platform, which resides on AWS. Here, our tech stack includes Dagster to manage data assets, Deltalake as data format, Kafka/RabbitMQ as streaming platform, dbt/DuckDB for Transformation, and Terraform, Kubernetes and ArgoCD as the underlying infrastructure. We are building the future.
This is a great opportunity to join a fast growing company with a highly stimulating role with important growth opportunities, in a very exciting phase of the company's evolution.
2+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, you can demonstrate the ability to deliver efficient data solutions in a production environment.
Experience in building data systems with real-time data streams (preferably Kafka)
Experience in building data systems in batches with Apache Spark/PySpark.
Able to handle ingestion of data from different sources (relational databases, NoSQL databases, unstructured data, data streams..)
Strong experience with data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Proficiency in Python programming (knowledge of Scala or Rust is a plus).
Knowledge in ETL concepts within modern data applications (Dagster/Airflow/Prefect)
Knowledge of AWS Services like S3, Athena, Redshift, Glue.
Knowledge of Terraform, Kubernetes and ArgoCD (You don’t need to be a master, we have a Cloud team to help us)
Knowledge of Data quality tools (great-expectations/Soda/Data contracts)
Solid understanding of software engineering practices, including version control, CI/CD, testing and documentation.
Familiar with Data Lifecycle Management (Development, storage, access,...)
Familiar with agile work and collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence.
A team player, capable of effective communication across multiple teams and stakeholders, both internal and external.
Able to work in a dynamic environment.
True believer of continual improvement. Open-minded people are welcome.
Fluent in English.
Permission to work within the EU is a plus.
Kantox is a leading fintech company developing sophisticated Currency Management Automation software solutions that help companies to automate their foreign exchange processes and leverage currencies for growth.
We are a 180-person strong team, split between London and Barcelona. So far, we’ve raised over €30 million and became profitable in 2018. Thanks to our clients, we continue to grow at a fast pace. Clients in 75 countries have already exchanged more than USD $18 billion with us!
In October 2022, BNP Paribas signed an agreement for the acquisition of Kantox. Kantox will continue to operate as an independent company, now with the experience and market power of BNP Paribas behind it. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed in the coming months.
Kantox is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion both in our hiring practices and in our experiences as a Kantox employee.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage all applicants regardless of race, religion, or belief (if any), colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, age, marital and civil partnership status, or disability status.
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