Coop - Software Engineer: Data CoopX
Amby, Norway
Job Description
We have big plans for the future and need YOU on our team!
We see data as essential to our success as a business and are determined to reinvent our data landscape to make data access in our organization easy, safe, and reliable so that we can leverage this important asset in delivering better value to our co-owners and customers faster. We plan to achieve our vision by adopting a data mesh architecture and a domain-oriented organizational structure where we autonomous value stream teams deliver data as a product to other teams and use this data to build compelling products.
In this endeavor, we need motivated people to work with value stream teams to make data a 1st class citizen. In this process, help us discover and build new and useful platform capabilities that can accelerate the process of building data products, and data analytics. Do you recognize yourself? Keep reading!
A day in the life of a Software Engineer Data at CoopX may look somewhat like this:
- Help us build our data and analytics platform highlighting critical patterns for performing data analytics and creating data products and creating platform capabilities that can help teams perform these activities better and faster.
- Work with data scientists to round their engineering skills.
- Understanding of distributed data architectures and patterns.
- Help us transform Coop into an engineering organization by contributing to guidelines and ways of working.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a person who is passionate about data and technology, and has some of the following:
- Knowledge and experience writing data pipelines, implementing data-driven services and data integration patterns.
- Understanding of various database technologies such as relational, document, graph, time series, or key-value databases.
- Experience creating ML training and prediction pipelines.
- Experience with data modelling.
- Understanding of distributed data architectures and patterns.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, cloud solutions (we use Google Cloud and Azure), container-based workflows, or distributed systems is all regarded as positive.
- A DevSecOps mindset.
- The ability to take initiative and responsibility in your line of work, yet maintain focus on how we can achieve greater speed through focus and keeping an eye on our high-level goals and ambitions.
Don’t have some of these? Not a problem! We are committed to the growth of our employees as they are the key to our success. As long as you have the will and drive to learn what you need to know and a proactive and open approach to learning, we will help you master any relevant skill, technology, or tool.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience within data engineering using relevant and new technologies and tools
- Higher education (BSc, MSc, or equivalent) within relevant fields of study or additional relevant experience is a plus
- Good communication skills in English (Norwegian is also a plus)
We can offer you:
- The chance to take part in build and shaping one of the most exciting commitments the retail and consumer goods industry has seen in a long time
- Work with modern, open-source technologies and some of the most interesting data foundations in the industry to solve complex and important business problems that benefit all of Coop’s customers and 1,9 million co-owners
- You’ll be a part of an ambitious and diverse team with a startup mindset, no hierarchy, but at the same time backing from a large organization
- A high degree of autonomy where it’s up to you and your team to define technologies and tools to solve the problem ahead
- Excellent opportunities for personal and professional development (e.g. conferences, training, upskilling, etc.)
- Fresh office spaces in central Oslo at Rebel and at our HQ in Grorud with a high degree of freedom and flexibility on working hours and location
- Gear and equipment (Mac/Windows/Linux) to be provided when you begin your adventure with us
- Competitive compensation package in addition to good pension and insurance schemes
- Other benefits like mobile phone and internet coverage, company cabins, and discounts in all Coop stores
Our Technology Stack:
We have a diverse technology stack, some of the more prominent and permanent parts of it are:
- Python and Go
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- PorstgreSQL, Google BigQuery
- GitHub
- gRPC and Protobuf
- GCP and Azure
Coop is Norway’s second-largest consumer retail operator, counting over 1250 stores and 28 000 employees across the country. Being an operator in a rapidly c