Data Engineer

Instabox is a growing tech startup that wants to change the logistics industry. We deliver your parcel to one of our smart lockers, seven days a week, as it should be. You pick it up with a pin code, without ever having to spend a second waiting in line.

We break new ground on a daily basis and our users keep getting amazed by our fast and convenient express deliveries. Since we are developing our own technology we can control everything from architecture to technology choices.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join an existing team currently consisting of two Data Scientists. Your primary mission will be to work with them to solve difficult problems to allow us to better utilize our locker- and logistics capacity. Additionally, we have a great deal of data in our systems that should be surfaced to our BI tools, and it will be up to you to work with the stakeholders to enable that.

You will:

- Set the standard for our data streaming, processing, and storage systems and integrate with our existing MongoDB, Postgres and Kafka based platform.
- Work on the data collection pipeline across the entire stack, from client-side event logging to ETL. Systems you'll touch may include data warehousing using MPP databases (e.g. RedShift), workflow systems (e.g. Airflow or Luigi), streaming data processors (e.g. Kafka), and distributed data processing systems (e.g. Spark or Hadoop).
- Work closely with the rest of engineering, as well as other stakeholders from our sales, marketing, and product teams, to understand the data needs of the business and produce systems that enable better product and growth decision-making.
- Help the team to migrate their existing solutions to the data processing pipeline you will set up.
- Advocate data engineering practices to key stakeholders.
- Lead complex projects and provide mentorship to colleagues.


Who are we looking for?

- 3 plus years of relevant experience
- Experience setting up data lakes and/or data warehousing
- Demonstrated ability to develop for streaming platforms (Apache Kafka, Apache Spark or equivalent; additional ones are a plus)
- Experience in operating relational databases
- Some experience with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB is a plus
- Prior experience with Python, Golang, Node.js is a plus


As Instabox is a fast-moving company, you should like to learn new things and not be afraid of exploring new areas. Working for a startup company, you should be comfortable in a flexible and fast-paced organization.

We offer you

Working at Instabox means that you are involved in developing something completely new that changes e-commerce. If you want an opportunity to influence and develop a company in an early stage while becoming an expert on what you think is fun - then Instabox is a company for you!

You will work closely with our Developers who are all passionate about building our products. Our Tech Department is located at Medborgarplatsen where you will sit together with other driven Developers. This is a full-time position and you will have flexible working hours. We are interviewing continuously with the aim to fill the position as soon as possible. If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Talent Acquisition Manager Amanda Rietz, amanda@instabox.se. If you have a Github account - feel free to attach the link to your profile in your application!