Data Engineer for data platform

Schibsted is a growing and diverse family of over 50 brands whose mission is to empower people in their daily lives, and each brand contributes to it in its own way. Amongst our brands you can find leading Nordic marketplaces like Finn and Blocket, world-class media houses like VG and Aftonbladet (we are the largest media group in Scandinavia) and other rapidly developing digital companies like Prisjakt, Lendo and many others.

Data Foundations is a central department within Schibsted that is responsible for the data platform and is working on data-fueled products with an emphasis on volume, velocity and privacy. We are building products at scale, serving the whole of Schibsted and its brands.

Our team within Data Foundations is responsible for making data accessible in Schibsted in a simple, robust, timely and privacy compliant way to enable data driven business decisions. We help data consumers manage access to their behavioral datasets and dispatch events to 3rd party data services to unlock the value of their data with minimum latency. This team manages data for millions of users across the Nordic countries!

The Management and Distribution (MaD) team has a strong soul: we aim to be of service to our stakeholders and teammates, persevere and cooperate when facing challenges, are curious to figure out how stuff works (especially when it doesn’t), and most importantly put our team first by helping each other.



Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a Data Engineer who has completed a few features together with their team, and is also respectfully proactive in taking ownership of, and investigating the “why’s”, of things. You would be working on functionality for a product that is at the core of Schibsted and used in the majority of brands like Finn, Blocket, VG or Aftonbladet – setting the direction together with the brands and the product manager. For example:

Engineering and implementing highly scalable systems and data pipelines for the Schibsted data management platform, both for real-time and batch processing – always working in pairs
Ensuring compliance with data governance, security policies and privacy laws for storage of, and access to, personal data
Monitoring and optimisation of data pipelines

If you also enjoy working in a team where teammates express their thought process around tasks clearly, share and receive constructive feedback on their work to both increase the quality of their work but also grow professionally, then you might be our new teammate!

Must haves

- Knowledge of, or some experience with developing services and applications on, cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Currently we have most of our services running on the JVM with the main programming languages being Scala and Python in the team – being familiar with and able to code using a JVM language (Kotlin/Java/Scala) is needed.
- A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Informatics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, any quantitative field or relevant work experience

Nice to haves

- Knowledge of, or some hands on experience with, some of the state of the art big data technologies, such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Storm, and Cassandra.
- Interest in having an impact in our organization by keeping cross-team dependencies and relationships in mind when engineering solutions.
- Familiarity with DevOps, concurrent/multithreaded programming, or distributed systems are all advantageous.

What is our technology stack?

- AWS for storage and other infrastructure (S3, Kinesis, EC2, EMR, Cloudformation, …)
- Scala for most of our services, and a little Python and Java too
- Kafka for stream processing and Spark for batch processing

As a part of Schibsted, you will also have the opportunity to share knowledge and learn from other data engineers across the organization. We encourage a diverse, collaborative and creative work environment, where you will develop and push for state-of-the-art solutions in big data processing as well as building reliable and highly scalable services.

A little peek at what we offer

- Internal career growth opportunities
- Flexibility of working from home
- Excellent work equipment of choice at home and at the office
- Central office locations
- Opportunity for development of competencies, conferences and various knowledge sharing events such as hackathons, innovation days, etc.
- Mentoring, since we have many senior engineers in the team and the department
- 2 lab days every month to explore new technologies and development ideas connected to our work
- Opportunity to take on various learning courses and classes through our Schibsted Learning Lab and LinkedIn Learning
- Pension scheme
- Schibsted share saving and matching plans
- Wellness programs (e.g. running, yoga, classes with a coach...etc.)

Our Interview process

- Recruiter screening (30 min): An initial call with a talent acquisition partner. We’ll tell you a bit about us, answer any questions you may have, learn about your background and what you’re looking to do.
- Home assessment and code review (60 min): a take home exercise with followup discussion where you meet two of our engineers. We will provide preparation material and context beforehand.
- Values interview (30 min): meeting the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the team for a short discussion. We will provide preparation material and context beforehand.
- Offer extended! If you are interested in talking to more potential coworkers or have additional questions, we will also arrange any additional chats for you.



Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a strong Nordic position, and more than 5,000 employees. Millions of people interact with our companies every day through our leading online marketplaces, world-class media houses. We also help new promising businesses grow. Our joint mission of empowering people in their daily lives is rooted in the values of our media heritage and a legacy of bold change. At our best, we are a fearless force for change in a society built on trust and transparency.

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