data engineer (data platform team) freelance

The vente-privee group has consolidated its various European brands, together made up of 6000 employees, under one unified conglomerate: Veepee. This coalescence marks a new chapter in its European history. With Privalia, vente-exclusive, Designer & Friends, Zlotewyprzedaze, Eboutic and vente-privee, Veepee achieved a 3.7 billion Euro turnover as of 2018. Present in 14 countries now, Veepee is taking a leading role in the European digital commerce landscape. Our 6000 employees have chosen a job at Veepee to spice up their daily lives! Our teams implement new technologies to fuel our strategies, offering our customers the best possible experience. Are you eager to learn? Veepee offers you a variety of trades to develop your career, enabling you to renew your skills constantly. Tech, logistics, sales, marketing, sales production: join us on an exciting, digital-centered journey. We are looking for a DATA ENGINEER FREELANCER (within the Data Platform Team) at VPTECH, which is fully cloud-native and distributed between Paris, Barcelona and Brussels. Your mission will be to support the whole organisation in scaling our data warehouse by building microservices, data transformation pipelines and tooling around it. RESPONSABILITIES : * Develop and deploy high-load API’s on Kubernetes with strong SLA requirements and high business value * Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability etc. * Build ingestion pipelines to our Google BigQuery based data warehouse * Keep improving your technical knowledge and expertise by attending conferences, contributing to open-source projects (Apache Beam, Apache Airflow), organising and attending meetups. YOUR PROFILE : * At least 3 to 5 years experience in software engineering, preferably in the data field * Strong knowledge of Java & Python * Familiarity with Protobuf & gRPC * Experience with data processing technologies like Apache Beam, Kafka, etc. * Used to work in a cloud environment, preferably GCP * Familiarity with the concepts of a microservice architecture and infrastructure as code * Prior experience with deploying containers on a platform like Kubernetes and its ecosystem (Istio, Grafana, Prometheus, etc) is a big plus * Proficiency with GitKnowledge of database technologies/concepts: relational (MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, ...) and non-relational (Bigtable/HBase, ElasticSearch, …) * A strong team-player, willing to share knowledge with other team members and help out where needed * You have strong verbal and written English language skills. WHAT WE OFFER : * A DYNAMIC and CREATIVE working environment * Fun and open INTERNATIONAL TEAMS * STATE OF THE ART technologies and tools * Participation in Veepee MEETUPS and EVENTS * REMOTE FRIENDLY opportunities. Belonging to Veepee, is one of the biggest tech communities in Europe with more than 800 IT collaborators. From WARSAW to BARCELONA, through LYON, NANTES, TEL AVIV, BRUSSELS, NICE, AMSTERDAM, and PARIS, all our projects are developed in a functional environment with a wide skills variety where you’ll be sure to find your place, no matter the technology you want to work with. If you love to try things why don’t you jump on this new adventure?