Head of Engineering

TekPrivacy’s mission is to solve the existing tension between data protection and data utility with ethical values that ensure a humanist vision of technology. Innovation and disruptive technology in data monetization and privacy preservation is key to the future of the European data economy. TekPrivacy is the first building trust with a comprehensive data privacy management and a privacy preserving data monetization platform. By doing so, TekPrivacy is enabling trust in the data subjects, the businesses and is also unlocking the value of the EU data economy. 

What You'll Do

As Head of Engineer you’ll be tasked with leading and managing a team of Engineers to build, maintain, and iterate on frameworks and tools that do the following:

• Craft a strong technical and operational strategy and the roadmap for evolving TkePrivacy Data Monetization Platform as a whole.
• Lead by example on technical matters and drive appropriate decisions at technical level.
• Mentor, coach and grow team members, also into leadership positions if the opportunity arises.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Good understanding of Software Engineering practices, as well as Data Engineering and System Engineering principles. Bonus points for previous Platform Engineering experience, especially if Data/DevOps related.
• Extensive knowledge in few of the following:
  • DevOps pipelines and development ecosystems
  • Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad)
  • The Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Yarn, Kerberos)
  • Distributed compute frameworks (Spark, Dask, Ray)
  • Workflow tooling
  • Data Engineering ecosystems and tooling.

Key Skills Needed

• Prior experience building a team oriented around data products or infrastructure, and coaching it to success
• Prior hands-on experience leading the development of data products from scratch
• Prior hands-on experience with Java, Python, DBT, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, AWS, Elastic Map Reduce, Spark

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Flexible work hours and remote work options
• Dynamic and innovative work environment

Contact: lfa@tekprivacy.com