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| Location: | London, ON |
| Date Posted: | Jan 22, 2020 |
Job Description
Senior Data Developer
A Little About Us:
Making fans - That’s what we’re all about! Since our humble beginnings in 2011, these two words have driven Big Viking Games to become the successful company it is today. With over 100 Vikings already on board, and studios in both Toronto, ON and London, ON, we are focused on making our mark by building awesome free-to-play mobile and social games. Big Viking Games has proudly amassed millions of loyal fans across its many popular titles with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. We believe that by investing in our employees and in new technologies, such as HTML5, we can continue our success for years to come. With that in mind, we are on the hunt for exceptional talent to join our growing team, and that’s where you come in!
The Nitty Gritty:
Big Viking Games is on the hunt for an experienced Senior Data Developer to join our team! This position is reporting to the Technical Director and is available in either our Toronto, ON or London, ON studio. This position will develop, implement and maintain data analytics systems, APIs and processes to provide actionable, reliable and timely data to our game teams through Report Developers.
The Duties:
- Build data infrastructure to enable data self-service by the production team
- Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
- Research opportunities for data acquisition and new uses for existing data
- Evaluate business tracking needs; existing procedures for tracking and reporting data
- Design a robust analytics solution
- Consult with game teams to provide self-serve A/B data experiments to improve game design and monetization mechanics
- Work with game teams to collect analytics requirements and instrument games
- Work closely with data modelers, business data analysts and BI developers to understand requirements, develop ETL processes, validate results and deliver to production
The Must Haves:
- Three-plus years of experience in data analytics, especially in big data environments
- 3 - 4+ years of professional experience with Java
- Professional experience with Python
- Application knowledge of Authentication such as OAuth
- Data query language knowledge
- Problem Solving Skills - experience working with product teams
- Experience with turning large amounts of raw data into actionable intelligence for business decisions
- Ability to conceive and test hypotheses based on incomplete data and creating structures that lend themselves to analysis
- MariaDB knowledge required for extracting data from games Databases
The Nice to Haves:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering is strongly preferred
- Experience with Telemetry (Kafka/Flink)
- Knowledge of distributed database systems such as Cassandra or MongoDB
- Knowledge of public cloud DaaS offerings such as AzureDB, Azure CosmosDB, AWS Aurora, or AWS DynamoDB
- Knowledge of private and public cloud infrastructure, containers, Linux, and Windows operating environments
- Experience developing infrastructure software to slice and dice data, using Hadoop or similar technologies
- Experience with Scala
- Linux and network knowledge
- ETL experience is an asset
- Knowledge of big data solutions
- Experience in the gaming industry is an asset!
The Loot:
- Competitive salary, Group Retirement Savings Plan matching, and participation in the Employee Stock Option Plan.
- Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, and vision), including generous time off policies.
- Stocked kitchen, unlimited snacks and beverages, along with breakfast and daily hot lunches. Vikings can't work on an empty stomach!
- Lots of other great perks such as frequent company paid outings, events and get-togethers.
Becoming a Viking:
Does the idea of working for a gaming company doing what you love everyday sound exciting? Great, we’d love to hear from you! Send us your resume and cover letter.
Big Viking Games is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process. If you require an accommodation, please email accommodations@bigvikinggames.com
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