Job description

Bankrate is a technology company committed to producing the most reliable, personalizable and highest quality content and data to serve the financial needs of consumers. We rely on a talented team of expert technologists who help Bankrate learn from a wide variety of data, both internal and external, as well as structured, semi structured and unstructured sources of data.

Bankrate seeks a passionate Data Engineer to join its top notch Data Engineering team to help build out a world class data platform to enable reporting, data sciences, and analytics to meet its challenges.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage data pipelines using methods such as stream processing.
• Author data services using a variety of programming languages.
• Work with a wide variety of data related technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka/Kinesis platforms, Spark, Snowflake, and others.
• Work in an Agile environment
• Ensure data quality and help in achieving data governance
• Communicate results and impact to business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other teams to tailor data products accordingly.

Technical Qualifications:

• At least 2-3 years of data engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, preferably AWS.
• Experience with an object oriented programming language. Python, Golang, Node, or Scala are preferred.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas in data to relevant stakeholders.
• Experience with SQL
• NoSQL architecture background is a plus.

Non-Technical

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• A passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data.
• Proven record of solving challenging problems in academia and/or industry.
• Eagerness to collaborate with both technical and non-technical colleagues across various organizations.