Our data pipelines dig deep into online news, blogs, social media, TV radio and traditional print from nearly all countries on the planet. We deal with the toughest data and software engineering challenges such as distributed data processing, firehosed data streams and fault-tolerant databases on top of usual ETL and data integration aspects.

Your Responsibilities

This position is in the Data & AI team and is part of the Technology department, reporting straight to the CTO. You’ll work with other specialists, each an expert in a facet of either data engineering and/or AI. You’ll also regularly touch base with backend developers to align the data pipelines with the product. Occasionally you’ll collaborate with our account managers to build data integrations with external data partners.

Your tasks include

• Participate in the business requirements elucidation phase with technical feasibility assessments regarding big data
• Hands-on development of distributed batch pipelines of media data with publishers
• Hands-on development of concurrent & distributed streaming pipelines, such as Hypefactor’s in-house web crawling cluster and enterprise data access to high-volume media data from social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook
• Conduct reliability assessments of data-pipelines
• Build data quality monitoring systems
• DevOps of said data-pipelines in Google Cloud and AWS
• Coordinate with backend engineers its integration into the Hypefactors applications

Your Basic Qualifications

You can provide evidence of prior hands-on professional experience with

• Scala, and
• Planning & executing software development projects, and
• Concurrent and/or distributed systems, and
• MySQL, and
• A NoSQL database, and
• A big data framework, like Spark or Google Dataflow, and
• A cloud platform, like AWS and/or Google Cloud

Your Desirable Qualifications

• Akka
• ElasticSearch
• Google Dataflow
• Natural language processing
• Integrating machine learning models into data pipelines

Your Application

Please address and tailor your resume to Dr. Viet Yen Nguyen, CTO. Our hiring process generally proceeds in three phases: orientation-phase with two calls, followed by a testing-phase with a coding, aptitude and personality test and conclude by an offer-phase with an overall evaluation.

About Us

Hypefactors is a scale-up from Copenhagen, Denmark and moving fast in PR-tech. We’re a small-knitted international team of 25+ persons representing over 15 nationalities across the globe, working daily to inspire PR professionals with unprecedented possibilities. We just IPOed on the Nasdaq and we are all set for scale-up growth in the upcoming years.

Our technology department is led by Dr. Viet Yen Nguyen, CTO. The team is technically cross-functional, with expertises in digital design, embedded systems, backend, frontend, mobile, data engineering and data sciences. We’re spunky tech-lovers and function in a DevOps manner to adapt and initiate change for the sake of continuous progress and pioneering state-of-the-art. Our users inspire us to tackle and solve challenging and worthwhile engineering problems unseen before.