Senior Software Engineer (Data)

Bright Purple

City of Edinburgh

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Data)
Edinburgh (Hybrid)
c.£70,000

One of the world's leading climate-change scale-ups - founded in Scotland by world-class figures across the industry - have exclusively engaged Bright Purple to hire a new Senior Data Engineer as a hands-on lead overseeing the design and development of internal platforms and data solutions.

They are a culture-first business with great care taken to ensure they maintain and grow a diverse, supported, and safe workspace, with real flexibility given to the team to ensure work and life can be balanced properly.

Ideally you are a software or data engineer passionate about the environment and motivated by the idea of working for one of the fast-growing techs in the sector. You'll be richly rewarded by collaboration with exceptional colleagues (multiple PhDs) on cutting edge, mission-driven tech-for-good. This opportunity could truly be the dream job for you.

Their ground-breaking, machine-learning mapping software has been used to support data-driven, climate-focused projects across the global, covering incredible areas of land and processing satellite data from some of the most important and critically endangered ecosystems on earth.

This environments favours problem-solving and a flexible approach to tooling and tech.

You would be joining a passion & intelligent team working with technologies like:

cloud computing - i.e Amazon Web Services (AWS),Azure,and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

python – (NumPY, SciPY, Pandas, Tensor Flow, Scikit Learn, etc.)

designing and developing robust ETL data pipelines

terraform

machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)

The ideal candidate will have the following experience:

c. 3+years of commercial experience in data, machine learning or software development

previous experience with Python and its related libraries

experience building cloud-hosted data pipelines

knowledge of modern cloud and dev-ops tools

linux/unix

In return, you will get the chance to make a genuine difference to the fight against climate change, and enjoy a flexible, hybrid approach to work with benefits that cover: 33 days holiday a year; your birthday off every year; company pension contribution; and much more!

Do you or someone you know have the skills, qualities and passion we’re looking for? If so, don’t delay, and get in touch today with your latest CV for immediate consideration.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry