Data Engineer

Develop and improve platform services and data pipelines for Foursquare.

• •Foursquare is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team in Belgrade on a hybrid schedule.
• •Key Responsibilities Influence key decisions on architecture and implementation of scalable, automated data processing workflows Build big data processing pipelines using Spark and Airflow Focus on performance, throughput, and latency, and drive these throughout our architecture Enhance test automation, conduct code reviews, and take end-to-end ownership of deployments to production Implement data observability and monitoring to ensure high data quality and pipeline reliability Participate in on-call rotation duties Requirements BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience 1-3 years of experience in software development, working with production-level code Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages we use: Python, Java or Scala Excellent communication skills, including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights Self-driven and feel comfortable learning without much hand-holding Experience with relational or document-oriented database systems, such as Postgres and MongoDB and experience writing SQL queries Experience with cloud infrastructure services, such as AWS(S3, EMR, EC2, Glue, Athena, SQS, SNS, Lambda) or GCP Experience with data processing technologies and tools, such as Spark, Hadoop(HDFS, Hive, MapReduce), Athena, Airflow, Luigi, Kafka Strong algorithms and data structures knowledge Comfort with Unix/Linux and the command line Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development cycles and streamline routine coding tasks