Staff/Senior Data Engineer and Chapter Lead

Job Description

• Generous vacation (unlimited - yes you heard that correctly!)
• Health benefits plan (a plan to make sure that you and your family are happy and healthy)
• Flexible work schedule. We understand that you and your family may have a busy schedule. We can accommodate that!
• Work from anywhere - the beach, a cabin in the woods, anywhere you have an internet connection and can be productive.
• Equipment to be productive. You’ll get a tech equipment allowance to make sure you are happy and efficient!
• Continuous learning opportunities and support for professional development. We want you to grow with us, and we will do anything we can to help!

Position:

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior or Staff-level Data-focused Engineer who will provide their Data-related expertise to our entire team (in a role that we call a “Chapter Lead”). You will be helping build software that is currently used in 40+ countries (primarily across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean) to give connectivity to people with limited technology. You will be part of a team that is building, scaling, and maintaining Viamo's products including our large-scale web application and communication platform that processes 4 million+ interactions a day and positively impacts millions of lives. In our years ahead, we are aiming to scale our platform strategy to go beyond sharing information: connecting 100 million active users to vital services and many of the benefits of the digital economy.

• You will also get involved in helping out with technical designs, giving assistance to Engineers on deliverables, conducting code reviews and, when necessary, contributing code yourself. Since our Data Chapter is fairly small at the moment,
• you will do more Individual Contributor work at the outset of your role, decreasing over time as the Data team grows.
• Your efforts will ensure that our applications create a delightful user experience for our users and are and are highly scalable, available, resilient and perform well on all devices.

We are looking for an Engineer who has been focusing on Data-related development (relational and object-store databases, analytics, etc.) for 10+ years and, ideally, has formal training in Computer Science or Software Engineering. Although we are looking for someone with general Data-related expertise, because of the nature of this role as a Chapter Lead, we have a strong preference for experience with our key Data tech stack components. We aim to power-up our developers with modern efficient frameworks, which currently include:

• MySQL
• BigQuery
• Google Data Studio
• PHP / Laravel
• REST and GraphQL APIs

(The list above are the key Data-related technologies; other technologies in our stack include AWS, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, BitBucket, Github, Vue.js, Typescript, ESLint, Webpack, etc.)

Strong written and verbal communication skills are a prerequisite, as we are a very team-oriented company working remotely with colleagues across the world, so clear communication is central to our success. We appreciate people who balance thinking long-term and pursuing technical excellence, and are focused on delivering value to users. We are experienced Agile / Scrum practitioners and we operate in multi-disciplinary product crews towards shared success.

If you are an independent, self-starting and quality-minded developer with top-notch communication and analytical skills, we would like to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities

As Data Chapter Lead, your days will be varied. Your general responsibilities will include:

• Providing guidance and consultation to individual Engineers on Data-related design, development or debugging as needed.
• Providing advice to an entire Product Crew (our name for our Scrum teams) when there is a specific Data-related challenge that requires your deep expertise. This could be for half an hour or for several Sprints, depending on the complexity of the challenge.
• Co-evolve architectural and technical standards - with your experience, we would expect you to guide the team to be better by creating standards and best practices in Data-related development.
• Researching new tools and techniques - we want you to be constantly on the lookout for how we can improve, which includes process changes, as well as the introduction of new tools and approaches.
• Training - it will be your responsibility to determine and fulfill the training needs of the Chapter.
• Hiring - as one of our most experienced Data Engineers, we would expect your involvement in the hiring of Data Engineers, as well as helping refine the process of selecting those Engineers.
• Engineering Backlog - since you will have visibility to all the Data-related work across our Crews, you will be the curator of the Data Engineering Backlog.
• Collaborating with other teams and disciplines within Viamo (e.g., Design/UX, Product Management, Country teams and external partners).

Benefits:

• Generous vacation (unlimited - yes you heard that correctly!)
• Health benefits plan (a plan to make sure that you and your family are happy and healthy)
• Flexible work schedule. We understand that you and your family may have a busy schedule. We can accommodate that!
• Work from anywhere - the beach, a cabin in the woods, anywhere you have an internet connection and can be productive.
• Equipment to be productive. You’ll get a tech equipment allowance to make sure you are happy and efficient!
• Continuous learning opportunities and support for professional development. We want you to grow with us, and we will do anything we can to help!