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Lead Data Engineer
1 year ago
GSN Games (A Scopely Company) is looking for a Lead Data Engineer for our team in Bangalore !
About Scopely: (GSN Games, part of Scopely Since December 2021)
Founded in 2011, Scopely (www.scopely.com) is one of the fastest-growing private mobile games companies today, having tripled revenues from 2018 to 2020. The company has one of the most diverse mobile games portfolios in the industry with success across both casual and core games—from social player vs player (PVP) to mid-core role-playing games (RPG) to massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy— and is known for its ability to build loyal and engaged player communities with a dedication to long-term, player-first experiences. It is Home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
It’s proprietary technology platform Playgami supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and has global operations in Australia, Boston, Barcelona, Bengaluru, Boulder, Dublin, London, Kyiv, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, San Francisco, Tokyo, Washington D.C., with additional game studio partners in seven countries across four continents.
Scopely acquired GSN Games from Sony Pictures Entertainment in October 2021 and subsequently GSN Games' successful free-to-play mobile game titles: Tiki Solitaire Tripeaks, Bingo Bash and GSN Casino are an important part of Scopely’s portfolio.
About The Analytics & Data Science Team:
Our incredibly talented team provides the data, analytics, and algorithms necessary to make GSN Games (A Scopely Company) a fun and rich experience for players.
We are looking for an experienced engineer to learn and improve upon our codebase, interface with our Bangalore data customers as well as the Global Data team, and grow the competencies of more junior engineers.
What you will do:
- Design, implement, debug, document, test, and maintain code and systems for the ingestion, transformation, storage, analysis, and presentation of data from multiple games and millions of players
- Manage a small team of data engineers, including career development, performance reviews, and compensation recommendations
- Collaborate with game teams, product managers, and data analysts to craft the best solutions for our data-driven business, emphasizing self-service for analysts and managers
- Estimate engineering effort to contribute to sprint planning and keep our delivery on track
- Ensure data quality is delivered on a timely and consistent basis with active alerting and notifications for escalation
Requirements:
- Strong skills with analytical SQL queries, including analytic (window) SQL functions, performance tuning, and data warehouse design (BigQuery is a plus)
- Strong experience with Python
- A working knowledge of ETL technologies such as Airflow and dbt
- Proactiveness to handle live ops and debugging around data quality, and to improve existing systems
- Excellent communication skills, along with a willingness to collaborate with a distributed global team
- Experience interfacing with stakeholders and distilling requirements
- Experience or strong interest in recruiting, retaining, and mentoring other talented engineers
- 3-5 years experience as a Data Engineer
Good to Have:
- Experience with Java
- Experience with AWS products (ECS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Athena, S3)
- Experience with Google Cloud products (DataFlow, DataFusion)
- Familiarity with machine learning and data science technologies (in python or scikit-learn)
- Experience developing software against 3rd party APIs / RESTful web services and working with vendors to identify and correct issues and drive enhancements
- Previous experience with Looker or Tableau
- Experience in the gaming industry, or otherwise with large volumes of data
- Knowledge of or experience with Docker container deployment on Kubernetes or similar container technologies
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