Data Engineer | Toronto or Remote

by Rick Stomphorst

Imagine playing a major role in developing a new SaaS offering? We’re searching for a Data Engineer to create the next generation of Intelligent Web Scrapers to seek out very specific financial data from thousands of data sources, then use Machine Learning & NLP techniques to standardize the data.

This is a key net-new hire for the organization. We need someone to take on these challenges:

• Develop, test and launch automated web scrapers and bots to capture and extract specific financial data from a variety of online publicly available sources

• Design the application to search the Internet for the expected thousands of new, and continually emerging, sources of specific financial data not yet included within our data catalogues

• Using AI and ML techniques, create a comprehensive data catalogue of this financial data

Perks

Why we’re a cool company

• Full benefits package

• We use team collaboration tools to collaborate

• Casual, yet professional environment

• For local candidates, largely work-from-home during the pandemic. Partial WFH afterwards.

• Receptive to candidates across Canada

• Flex time

Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see

All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before

• 5-years+ of experience in software development roles with open source technologies in a SaaS environment

• Backend: Python / Django – 5 years min.

• Frontend: Bootstrap, Sass, CSS, HTML, VueJS

• Experience building Restful APIs

• Experience building and the techniques of web scrapers

• Experience with Apache Beam pipelines, Apache Airflow, and Google Dataflow

• ETL experience and productionizing ETL Pipelines. Managed ETL Service – AWS Glue a definite advantage

• 3-years experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Knowledge of Productionizing ML models

• Experience with NLP

• SQL/PostgreSQL and data model design (logical & physical data models)

• Experience manipulating very large data sets (5Tb and 5T records)

• Experience with Cloud platforms: AWS, Digital Ocean, or GCP required. Experience with Serverless and Virtual Machines

• Effective communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

About us

We are 20 year old growing Canadian FinTech company provided consulting services to businesses obtaining government funding.

Coupled with our services, we have developed a unique supporting suite of applications providing us with an unrivaled competitive advantage. Our application provides our clients with visibility into the very complex and hidden $140B data feed of open funding opportunities.

This is a Permanent opportunity.

N E X T S T E P S

If this sounds like you and you’re looking to build your career, then we want to hear from you. Please email your resume to , Subject: Data Engineer

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