About QED
QED (https://qed.ai) is a tech company focused on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including surveillance of HIV/malaria/TB, and nutrient analysis of crops and soils, working at national-scale in several African countries. Our funding comes from multiple philanthropic and governmental organizations, including the Global Fund, Gates Foundation, and the CDC.
Role Description
We are looking for a mid/senior Data Platform Engineer (backend) to join our team in Warsaw. This role requires a full-time commitment physically based in Warsaw, Poland, with a hybrid of remote and in-person work throughout the week. We expect at least 2-3 days per week in the office. The working hours are flexible.
What you can expect:
- Unusual, socially conscious projects
- Significant ownership
- A mix of product, internal platform, and client integration work
- Ability and encouragement to explore technologies other than your main expertise
- Optional travel to learn more about problems we're trying to solve
- Flexible working hours
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines using ETL and/or ELT approaches, with the ability to reason about trade-offs
- Understanding of data pipeline reliability concepts, including idempotency, backfills, and handling late or corrected data
- Ability to structure data systems into clear layers (e.g. raw, cleaned, curated) and reason about their different purposes and guarantees
- Experience deciding between batch, micro-batch, and streaming approaches based on latency, correctness, and operational complexity
- Strong background in software engineering, version control, writing readable code and tests, robust design, and basic data structures and algorithms
- Ability to conceive logical software architectures and express yourself clearly, both verbally and in writing
- Willingness to tackle a wide array of problems and technologies
- Willingness to participate in regular design sessions, code reviews, and working in teams
- Development primarily on UNIX-based or OSX-Darwin platforms
- Working proficiency (≥C1) in speaking, reading, and typing English (≥45 words per minute)
- Willingness and interest in working with people from other cultures
- Emotional resilience and social intelligence
- You have to care about the work that you do
- You have to be optimistic at least sometimes
Bonus Skills:
- Understanding of analytical data modeling concepts
- Experience with Python, Django, DBT, Dagster, Luigi or Clickhouse
- Experience with containerization (Docker), Terraform, Kubernetes or Nix
- Knowledge and experience with data warehousing, online analytical processing, metadata management, dimensional modeling, and relational database theory
- Experience with programming and/or math competitions
- Product-oriented mindset
- Willingness to go on an adventure
- Domain knowledge and/or interest in the sustainable development goals, particularly in public health, agriculture, and assisting developing countries
