Senior Staff Engineer I

Agile Lab is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customisable solutions that establish performance-driven processes, sustainable architectures and automated platforms based on data governance best practices.

Having delivered over 100 successful Elite Data Engineering initiatives, we have used this experience to create Witboost: a modular, technology-agnostic platform that enables modern organisations to discover, value and produce their data in both traditional environments and fully compliant Data Mesh architectures.

With a highly skilled team of over 130 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organisations with their data-driven transformation.

Take a look at our handbook to discover our core values and processes.

We are looking to hire a talented Staff Engineer to develop and manage our Big Data solutions. In this role, you will be required to design and implement Big Data tools and frameworks, data-intensive applications, and cloud platforms.
To ensure success as a Big Data Engineer, you should have in-depth knowledge of distributed computing technologies and top problem-solving skills.

Salary: 62.5K - 72.5K + up to 8K bonus

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, designs, and implements complex systems
• Challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve
• Mentors junior engineers via pairing, design, and code review
• Builds software solutions by adhering to our quality standards about SDLC
• Makes active efforts to stay up-to-date with technologies
• Leads the technical design of complex systems
• Understands and optimizes system performances
• Takes the initiative to fix issues before they become a problem
• Delivers complex systems, well-baked, and almost bug-free
• Proactively Identifies problems with requirements and project plan
• Go to expert in one technological area
• Research and propose new technologies
• Detect possible performance bottlenecks
• Known for drama-free launches
• Can jump into an old project and fix it
• Consistently influence technical and business roadmap of services/products/projects
• Proactively identify and tackle tech debt
• Communicate with self-awareness
• When is proposing something, at any level, is doing it in written form and providing the propoer context
• Contributes to the career development of others
• Sought out for technical guidance and seen as a resource by others
• A record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Able to discuss at the same level with tech-vendor engineering teams 
• Capable of debugging the hairiest problems that the team encounters
• Jumps into most of problems ( tech & biz ) and resolves them
• Remove roadblocks for multiple projects/products
• Able to act with full autonomy based on a strategy and not on a work plan
• Has made a huge positive impact on the entire company's technical/business trajectory.
• Identifies improvement tech areas for the organization
• Care about the efficiency of the company, introducing new practices , processes and standards
• Listens and guides debates to help reach a consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicates and backs that decision.
• Sets short to medium-term strategic technical or operative direction, able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them.
• Clearly communicates its technical vision and help teams and stakeholders to follow it
• Proactively identifies lacks of clarity in the overall strategy and communicates them properly.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 7+  years of experience in the field
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop, Spark, and similar frameworks
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages including Java and Scala
• Expert in cloud-native technologies, IaC, and Docker tools
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactivity
• Business and functional understanding
• Team Player
• Ability to solve complex networking, data, and software issues
• Leadership capabilities

We offer:

• Full Remote or hybrid working in our offices: Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania and Rende;

• Real work life balance;

• Training monthly budget (time and money);

• A structured career path with clear expectations and salary for each level;

• Support of a buddy, as a guide in choosing the most suitable experiences for your ambitions;

• Benefits and corporate welfare programs: company prizes and welcome pack with all the equipment you need to   work;

• Smart Working Plus experience: opportunity to work for 2 weeks abroad

• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you;

• The opportunity to attend one conference per year;

• Inclusive environment where you can be who you really are;

• Stimulating environment oriented to growth, both professional and personal.

How we work:

• We don't like hierarchies: we work as a team;

• We don't like bureaucracies, we prefer sense of responsibility;

• We like data, certainly, so anything that is measurable;

• We want to make a positive change in our industry;

• Empathy, humility, collaboration, and willingness to challenge ourselves are the basis of our work.