Software Engineer, Data Engineer

At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network.

And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.

The problem we are trying to solve :
Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty.

Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers.

Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

It’s official:
Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK!

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Insights Back-End team to help build out data pipeline, data store and API layer of Bazaarvoice data that will power our various client-facing dashboards, raw data reporting, product performance reporting.

The ideal candidate has built and operated systems that aggregate and share data sets to support new product offerings and is well experienced in evaluating the right technologies to build those data sets. Success in the role is underpinned by a strong understanding of the business cases of the product portfolio and building relevant data sets, API layer and access methodologies that support the portfolio goals.

• Own, design, implement and support of major components of the unified back end data.
• Define how data should be aggregated and made available to other consuming applications while maintaining high availability and performance.
• Implementation of the mechanism, systems, and software to make it happen.
• Use your strong grasp of the technology stack to guide where we go next.
• Drive engineering best practices and help mentor talent.

• 7+ years of experience building and supporting scalable, distributed systems using open-source tools.
• Proven hands-on experience with Object Oriented programming languages and with at least 1 scripting language (ex. Java/C++/etc. and Python/Ruby/etc.).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with writing complex SQL queries (any dialect but Postgre
  
  SQL is a plus).
• Experience with some sort of API framework (ex. Spring Boot).
• Experience with big data infrastructures such as Hbase, RDBMS, Redshift.
• Experience with optimizing database performance by using various techniques such as indexing, caching.
• Experience with public cloud hosting provider (AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, Azure or similar).
• Experience using modern build tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Git Hub, etc.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services a strong plus - Cloud Formation, EMR, S3, EC2, Athena etc.
• Experience with scheduling services such as Airflow, Oozie.
• Experience with Data ETL and data modeling
• Experience with building large-scale systems with extensive knowledge in data warehousing solutions.
• Developing prototypes and proof-of-concept systems.
• Strong analytical, technical, and communication (oral and written) skills.
• Someone committed to excellence. That means building collaborative relations up, down and across the organization; staying positive when tackling tough challenges that often requires cross-team contribution.
• Prior technical leadership and/or mentorship experience.

Customer is key:
We see our own success through our customers’ outcomes.

We approach every situation with a customer first mindset.

Transparency & Integrity Builds Trust:
We…