At Animaj we’re building a cutting-edge data platform to support our analytics engines for channels sourcing, pricing and scaling. This platform, fed by data from Youtube APIs, provides our M&A team, growth team, and creators with capabilities to better identify business opportunities, to understand audiences and entertainment content trends, and to recommend optimizations for their channels/content.

Animaj is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to design the company’s data architecture and build its data platform (including data acquisition, data transformation and enrichment pipelines, datamart & APIs to expose the data).

You will report to the Head of Data, and collaborate closely with machine learning engineers as well as M&A and growth teams.

This is a great opportunity to join an entrepreneurial adventure at an early stage and to lay the foundations of Animaj’s ambitious tech vision.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Animaj’s data platform (ingestion, pipelines, datamart) from scratch with infrastructure costs in mind
• Build, test and maintain data extraction and transformation pipelines from several feeds (starting with Youtube APIs)
• Design and implement jobs scheduling/orchestration workflows and pipeline monitoring/alerting
• Deploy efficient data storage solutions in production
• Define our data model in collaboration with our machine learning engineers and other internal clients
• Influence technical choices on stack, design and implementation and contribute to the definition of Animaj’s technical vision

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and managing complex data pipelines
• Significant experience architecting data infrastructures from bottom up
• Demonstrated strong autonomy, proactiveness and technical leadership
• Software engineering best practices are a second nature for you
• You have a hacker mindset and are not afraid to deep dive into new and challenging problems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• English proficiency and experience working in a multinational environment

Our Process

• First Interview with our CEO
• Case study to prepare at home
• Focused Interview with our Head of Data
• Final Interview with one of the co-founders

Benefits

• Stock Options - We want all of our early employees to participate fully in Animaj’s success.
• Health Care - We provide totally subsidized/covered health care.
• Remote Policy - Dedicated to your work-life balance, we offer 2 days remote and 3 days per week at the office. Why ? Because we think that magic occurs when people work together, but we also believe that there are times when you need to be able to work uninterrupted.
• Work environment - A stimulating workplace that fosters creativity, autonomy and leadership.