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Breezy HR
united kingdom
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Octaive is an equal opportunities employer. We actively welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and do not discriminate against employees or applicants because of their race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.


Hey. We're Octaive.


We're an award winning Creative Technology business helping Advertisers look past outdated ‘click' metrics and start creating real ‘Attention'.

Why?
Typical ads don't respect the user and they don't give brands the full picture. Fact. We change that.


How?We empower consumers to control the ad themselves, meaning they get a truly relevant experience without encroaching on their personal data. Simple. But effective.


Leading brands such as VW, PayPal and Vodafone use our technology to create privacy-first, conversational experiences that drive active attention. After all, there's no point saying something if no-one's listening.


Octaive's platform is well established, with major agencies using it to give brands conversational display and video creative that makes an impact.


Simply put, we deliver great digital experiences – and we've been recognised for it. We recently nabbed a place in the TechRound-100 and the prestigious Startups 100.


It's an exciting time to be part of an innovative, forward-thinking startup…but that's enough about us.


Team Octaive is growing and we're looking for an ambitious Data Engineer to join our fast-moving, dynamic business.


What you'll do


  • Working remotely (within the UK) with occasional travel to our HQ in London
  • Design, architect, implement, and support key datasets and data warehouses for both static and real time data.
  • Engineer analytics dashboards and tooling for data retrieval.
  • Perform analysis to assess and enhance quality and meaning of data.
  • Leverage automated tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources.
  • Working with other stakeholders including management and engineering to devise and develop insight and reporting use cases for our customers.
  • Help identify process improvements, system modifications and devise data governance strategies.  


What you'll have


  • You are a self starter, with a passion for highly scalable data analytics systems. 
  • Experienced building AWS Cloud based data systems using:
    • AWS  Athena/PrestoDB
    • Lambda, S3, Kinesis, Glue
    • SQL
    • NodeJS
    • CubeJS
    • Relational Database Systems
  • Working with other developers, it is useful to have experience in technologies including:
    • ReactJS
    • Data visualization and analytics software such as Tableau
    • Git/version control
    • Other big data technologies such as hive, hadoop, spark
  • Hands on experience building data warehousing including ETL pipelines.
  • Experience processing data from multiple heterogeneous sources.
  • Ability to design complex data architectures for performant analytics.


What Octaive offer


  • Competitive salary.
  • Share option scheme.
  • Flexible working environment (hours, remote work).
  • Healthy snacks, cake on Wednesdays and Friday Drinks trolly!
  • Work with a fun, diverse, sociable team.
  • Join a company backed by highly respected industry leaders.
  • High-growth business with fast career progression.



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