Job description
About EDITED
EDITED is the world’s leading AI-driven retail intelligence platform. We empower the world’s most successful brands and retailers with real-time decision making power.
By connecting internal business and external market data, EDITED infuses intelligence into every retail decision. We help retailers increase margins, generate more sales, and drive better business outcomes through AI-powered market and enterprise intelligence that fuels automation.
At EDITED, we foster a dynamic and inclusive culture where creativity thrives and collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Our environment is dynamic and supportive, encouraging team members to take initiative, innovate, and continuously grow. We value diversity, transparency, and a shared commitment to excellence, creating a workplace where everyone’s voice is heard and contributions are recognised.
We believe that achieving a positive work-life balance is key to driving innovation and success. Our flexible working options—including hybrid working, flexible hours and a work from anywhere policy—empower our team to perform at their best.
The Role
At EDITED, you’ll be part of our Product and Data team, working closely with other software developers and data scientists, retail specialists and designers to create data-driven solutions to our customers’ problems. We’ve got huge scope to innovate and we always welcome fresh perspectives. You’ll be able to make a big impact, and learn a huge amount during your time at EDITED.
We bring in the best candidates to meet our existing team and get to know them before making a hiring decision together.
As a Junior Data Ingestion Engineer, you’ll be involved in maintaining and improving our data ingestion platform. Your day might range from liaising with our Data Operations team or customers, to diagnosing and fixing issues with our data ingestion scripts, to building tooling to help detect data quality issues en masse and integrating them into our data processing pipeline.
You have a quantitative technical mindset and a love of detailed problem solving. You have a bachelor’s degree or greater preferably in Computer science, Information systems or Mathematics or have experience in a data QA/software test/junior web development role. Perhaps you are looking for a stepping stone to a backend engineering or data engineering role.
Requirements
Essential:
A passion for creative problem solving and attention to detail – you love to dig into the root cause of an issue.
A proven ability to work within a fast-moving team and to prioritise and balance a varied workload.
Software development experience in a modern programming language like Python, Ruby, Javascript, Perl (Python preferred).
Experience with REST Web Services, HTTP, DOM, CSS, XPath, RegEx and desire to build robust data-processing systems.
Comprehensive communicator in English, written and verbal.
Desirable:
Experience with web scraping – bonus points for Scrapy.
Understanding of HTTP, OOP principles.
Experience with data QA processes and/or web application testing (Selenium).
Experience with Linux and using the command line.
Experience communicating with development teams, as well as explaining technical concepts to non-technical people, including clients.
A demonstrated ability to think logically and technically.
Experience with any of the following a plus:
Agile Kanban methodology
GIT version control.
Perks & Benefits
You can utilise our flexible working policy to ensure you can work around your schedule – this means starting + finishing when it suits you best!
Additional Health Insurance
Gaming & relax areas
MultiSport card
Corporate discounts
Employee referral program
25 days annual leave + public holidays (and an extra day for every year at EDITED)
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
