Objective of the Role: We are seeking a junior developer with a desire to do data engineering in the backend to join our Engineering team as a full-time permanent employee.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write Python scripts which fetch data from upstream sources, including from APIs, CSV and JSON file downloads, and HTML and Javascript scrapes.
• Maintain existing Python scripts, which sometimes break due to changes at the source.
• In due course, develop our data pipeline and other back-end systems and processes.
• Ensure your code is nicely structured and well-commented, and therefore more easily maintainable.
• Collaborate every day as part of a supportive development team e.g. pro-actively review your colleagues’ pull requests.

Skills, Qualifications and Profile:

• Demonstrable competency in Python.
• Demonstrable competency in coding within a version control system. We use git and GitHub.
• A fair relational database understanding. We use PostgreSQL.
• Enough SQL knowledge to know how to write a filter query and an aggregation query without reference.
• Able to confidently programmatically obtain structured data from a REST API.
• Able to confidently programmatically obtain less-structured data from a web page.
• Clear and logical written communications (just like code but with people, which is crucial for a remote role).
• You should be self-motivated and keen to learn.
• Tertiary education or apprenticeship in a STEM-related field.