Data Engineer

Praelexis is a Machine Learning startup based in Technopark, Stellenbosch. Our goal is to extract practical value from massive datasets. Consequently, we apply advanced machine learning algorithms to a variety of real-world industrial problems on a large scale. The position will initially involve consulting at one of our enterprise financial services customers.

We’re currently looking for a skilled person with the following core skills:

• 3 to 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Expert knowledge of the software development life cycle(SDLC).
• Expert Python programming skills.
• Experience in designing, implementing and deploying ETL/data pipelines with Airflow/Luigi/PySpark etc.
• Experience in designing, implementing and deploying highly scalable RESTful APIs in production using frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI etc.
• Familiar with DevOps, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis, Pipelines etc.
• Experience working in a cloud environment with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm etc.)
• Experience with data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Databricks
• Experience in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS etc.
• Strong experience with SQL and/or NoSQL database.

Basic Qualifications:

• BScHons in Computer Science,
• BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering (4yr), or
• Other relevant experience and qualifications.

Additionally, any of the following attributes would count in the applicant’s favour:

• Experience in productionising machine learning models and workflows.
• Experience building data solutions using AWS cloud services: S3, EC2, EMR, Glue, Lambda etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation etc.
• Experience with development process such as agile and scrum