About billups
We don’t trade in hype. At billups, we’re reimagining how brands show up in the real world, literally. Powered by patented technology, proprietary AI, and a global team of 400+, we’re reinventing Out-of-Home (OOH) media to help brands connect with people in physical spaces, with more precision, intelligence, and impact than ever before. We move fast, think boldly, and collaborate deeply. Fiercely independent, with a presence in 20+ countries, we back smart ideas with data, technology, and trust. Growth is on the table, professionally and personally. We invest in talent and celebrate our people, plain and simple. Curious? Let’s talk.
The Role:
The Senior/Lead Data Engineer will design, code, and support machine learning pipelines, data pipelines, and data stores for advertising applications, solve problems, collaborate with team members, and work to support manual and automated testing in an engineer-led continuous deployment environment by performing the following duties:
What You'll Do:
Demonstrate proper use of data structures, algorithms for traversing them, and optimizing their use.
Strive for clean, well-tested, and expressive Spark and python code.
Collaborate with product and design stakeholders.
Develop pipelines and data architecture using best practices in scalability and privacy preservation.
Write and maintain unit tests and code coverage reports; strive for continuous releases with less than 5% bugs.
Drive results from collaboration, prototyping, test-driven CI, and pull request reviews (ticket tracking, acceptance testing, etc.) by producing high-quality code and continuing to learn to improve the system.).
Who You Are:
5+ years of professional experience in data engineering for a Senior role
Contribute ideas, research, and knowledge to the team to increase skills for all.
Develop programmatic solutions to business problems, automate business processes.
Take ownership of functionality from development through deployment.
Be ready to learn new languages, tools, and systems quickly; communicate challenges; ask for help regularly.
Deploy quality code, write tests, and learn from mistakes to build a better system and improve your skills.
Actively participate or lead team meetings, mentor junior staff, pair-program, and learn on your own.
Work with product owners, analysts, designers, and other developers to estimate the size and scope of work.
Other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from four-year college or university with a degree in computer science, math, or related STEM field; 5 or more years related experience and/or training with Go, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python application development; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience building data pipelines with Apache Spark and deploying machine learning models.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering for a Senior role
- 7+ years of experience with demonstrated technical leadership for a Lead role
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related STEM field, or equivalent education and experience
- 5+ years of related application development experience or training with Go, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
- Experience building data pipelines with Apache Spark
- Experience deploying machine learning models
What We Do
billups is reinventing out-of-home planning and placement for the performance age. Blending art and science, billups leads the industry with patented scientific targeting, accurate out-of-home measurement and an AI-powered recommendation engine. billups supports advertisers, agencies and media owners through services and platform technology that make out-of-home as automated and attributable as the most effective digital ads. With people across the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia, billups is the largest privately held technology and managed services company in North America to inspire advertisers and agencies to build and measure intelligent campaigns by connecting brands to their audiences.
