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Qodea

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Enterprise • SaaS • B2B

Qodea is a leading cloud technology partner specializing in Google Cloud solutions. With over 15 years of experience and more than 300 experts, Qodea helps businesses unlock the full potential of Google's cloud technology to drive digital transformation and achieve real-world success. As Europe's largest dedicated Google Cloud partner, Qodea supports major brands in harnessing cloud technology, ensuring seamless transitions, and maximizing business value. The company offers comprehensive services in infrastructure modernisation, data activation, AI integration, and security, tailoring solutions to meet UK and EU regulatory requirements.

201 - 500 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Implement and enhance sophisticated, high-throughput batch and streaming data pipelines using Scala and GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam). • Contribute to the architectural design and technical roadmap for modernizing our data ingestion and processing pipelines. • Develop and implement performance optimizations, such as migrating services to use Cloud Functions for exporting data from BigQuery to Pub/Sub more efficiently. • Collaborate with Staff Engineers to expand the functionality of our data export systems for external partners. This includes pulling data from BigQuery, creating formatted feed files, and exporting them to various external stores (e.g., FTP, GCS, S3). • Support and contribute to the expansion of existing data integrations, including adding new fields to schemas and ensuring that data is propagated correctly through the entire pipeline. • Actively contribute to the refactoring and modernization of legacy Scala codebases, applying best practices in functional programming, testing, and observability. • Collaborate closely with teams using Node.js APIs (for data ingestion) and Python (for data transformations), maintaining clear data contracts and robust integration patterns. • Act as a strong technical communicator, contributing to technical approaches, breaking down complex problems, and engaging in rapid, iterative development cycles by asking questions quickly rather than working in isolation.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline. • Extensive experience of software engineering. with a strong background in building and operating large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems in production. • Deep expertise in Scala and its functional programming paradigms. • Demonstrable, hands-on experience with GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam). Experience with other major streaming/batch frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Akka Streams) is also highly valuable. • Strong proficiency in the GCP ecosystem, including critical services like BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions. • Solid understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, schema design, and data lifecycle management. • Experience building and maintaining data export feeds to external systems (e.g., SFTP, GCS, S3). • Proven ability to take ownership of complex technical features and deliver them from design to production. • Excellent communication skills, with experience working in polyglot environments (interfacing with Node.js, Python, etc.) and a proactive, inquisitive approach to problem-solving. • Ability to be available for key synchronous meetings and standups between 4:00- 6:00 PM UK time. • Nice to Have • Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes). • Working knowledge of Node.js or Python for data-related tasks. • Experience with other data stores (e.g., NoSQL, time-series databases) or data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).

🏖️ Benefits

• We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what they do and the standard of work they produce. • Collaborate with our two hubs in Portugal: Lisbon and Porto. • A strong company culture that includes weekly meetings, company updates, team socials, and celebrations. • In-house DE&I council and mental health first-aiders. • 25 days’ annual leave, Juneteenth, your birthday off, and a paid office closure between Christmas and New Year's. • Health insurance. • 15 days of paid sickness and wellness days. • A generous learning and development budget and an annual leadership development programme. • At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all.