Senior Data Engineer
POSITIONS
3/27/2025
🎯 Mission
Your main goals will be to:
Design and implement new architecture for big data ingestion, process and storage
Build data pipelines to automate the ETL processes of all the sources we combine
Collaborate with Data Scientists, Software Engineers to define flexible and scalable solutions
Contribute to the infrastructure configuration with our beloved DevOps
To deliver this, you will join our talented French and Spanish team which has extensive experience in Big Data environments. You’ll have the opportunity to play with a very large amount of daily updated geolocation data in France and Europe, and develop your skills and challenge new technologies that could bring more value to our technical stack.
🫵 Profile
At least 3 years of XP as a Data Engineer in a tech environment
MS degree in Computer Science or related fields
💪 Hard skills
Proficiency with a wide range of different databases. At MyTraffic different pieces of data are consumed from PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Athena… so you will never get bored!
Strong software development fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.)
Experience working with a Cloud based environment (extra-kudos for AWS and GCP) and designing robust and scalable data architectures with orchestrators (Airflow), data pipelines and ETL processes (Spark) for multiple data sources, ensuring data quality and integrity.
🧠 Soft skills
Excellent problem-solving skills crafting simple and elegant solutions
Ability to challenge existing tools and processes, and proactively suggest improvements
Curious and rigorous: You like learning new things, and you are not afraid of going out of your comfort zone if needed. You are interested in what the rest of the team is working on and like participating in discussions and suggesting new ideas.
Organized and methodical: you like starting your projects by defining a plan of steps to reach, having your Jira board up always to date and with well described tasks, and you like clean, self-explained and reusable code.
English speaker with good oral and writing skills: you feel comfortable explaining complex technical concepts in simple ways to Product Managers or Data Scientists, at the same time that you are able to discuss and confront ideas in a technical style with engineers
Nice to have
Experience working with spatial data or GIS systems
Familiar to algorithms using geolocation data (timestamp, latitude, longitude)
Published open source code
If you’re the type of person that is constantly reading about new trends to see what’s going on out there and how you can incorporate new technologies into your current project when there are good reasons for it, then we want to hear from you.
Last but not least, don’t worry If you don’t meet all the criteria. At MyTraffic, we believe in continuous learning. If this role interests you, please apply and explain your motivations. We’d love to hear from you!
🚀 How would you land at MyTraffic?
This is what we expect from you...
In your first week
(You get a very warm welcome!)
You have set up your new computer so you can be fully productive.
You have met everybody in your team.
You have attended the MyTraffic Academia where you’ve been introduced to everything you need to know about what we do, why we do it, how we do it and how we solve a big pain in the industry!
And… you have opened your first Pull Request!
In your first month
You already have an overview of the infrastructure of MyTraffic.
You got familiar with the different databases and types of pipelines.
You have concluded your first initiative successfully!
After 6 months
You feel independent in your work and do not need supervision.
You feel empowered to suggest ideas and improvements, and confident to execute them.
You are able to develop all your talent and elevate the whole team!
✅ Process
30 min talk with Adèle, our Talent Acquisition,
30 min with your future Manager
Technical case at home and then exchange with 2 team members
45 min Values Ambassador with 2 employees of Mytraffic,
An interview with Simon Boissinot, our VP Data