Software Engineer - Backend Engineer

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Collaborating with teams of creative, fun, and driven colleagues
Company-provided home office equipment
Comprehensive benefits program (Health, Welfare, Retirement and Paid time off)
Other perks and wellness benefits like discount programs, and gym/studio access.
Paid Parental Leave and coaching, baby welcome gift, and family care/illness days
Back-up childcare/elder care, childcare discounts, and subsidized virtual tutoring
Tuition assistance and weekly hot skill development opportunities
Experiential, high-impact learning series events
Access to mental health resources and mindfulness programs
Access to join Capgemini Employee Resource Groups around communities of interest
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion. Get The Future You Want | Disclaimer
Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact. Please be aware that Capgemini may capture your image (video or screenshot) during the interview process and that image may be used for verification, including during the hiring and onboarding process. Applicants for employment in Canada must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in Canada by Capgemini. Job description: As Backend Engineer, you will work on one of the world's largest social media platform which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily. You will chip in as part of R&D self-organized team working in an ambitious, innovative environment for our client. Investigate, build, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using groundbreaking technologies, including building/improving Bigdata processing platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users. Key responsibilities:
Acquires tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, approves them with all team members.
Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
Evaluating existing data systems.
Developing standard methodologies for data coding to ensure consistency within the system.
Updating and optimizing local and metadata models.
Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products
Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data optimally and efficiently using cloud technology
Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
Reports about area readiness/quality, and raise red flags in crisis situations which are beyond responsibilities.
Responsible for resolving crisis situations within responsibilities.
Initiates and conducts code reviews, builds code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
Suggests technical and functional improvements to contribute to the product.
Constantly improves professional level.
Collaborates with other teams.
Required Skills
University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Related Sciences or similar
Solid Python coding skill with 5+Years of experience as backend engineer.
Experience in both SQL databases and NoSQL databases
Experience with data processing frameworks like Apache Airflow and Apache Spark(as a plus)
Ability to organize and document solutions.
A passion for streamlining systems and processes to make the difficult trivial.
Strong OOP skills
Effective communication (oral & written), collaboration, and communication skills.
Result oriented approach.
Would be a plus:
Experience with AWS (S3)
Experience with Docker, K8s, Git. Job Programmer/Analyst
Schedule Full-time
Primary Location CA-BC-Vancouver
Organization ERD PPL CAN