Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) - based in Portugal

rpc – The Retail Performance Company ist das Beratungsunternehmen für den gesamten Weg zu einer kundenorientierten Transformation: von der kundenzentrischen Strategie, über Customer Experience Design, Data Analytics bis hin zu People Empowerment und Performance Management. Wir haben es uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, unsere Kund*innen durch ganzheitliche Lösungen von der Strategie bis zur Implementierung aus einer Hand zu unterstützen. Unser Fokus liegt auf der Schaffung inspirierender Kundenerlebnisse für eine nachhaltige und wertschöpfende Beziehung zwischen Marken und Endkund*innen.  

rpc wurde 2013 als Joint Venture der BMW Group und H&Z Unternehmensberatung AG gegründet und ist mit über 400 Mitarbeiter*innen in zehn Ländern vertreten.

• Lead the design, development and maintenance of web scraping/crawling applications to collect large datasets from the web
• Reverse engineer public APIs to connect new data source
• Potentially, develop and optimize RESTful APIs and web applications to expose datasets and analytics
• Define architecture and technology choices
• Design databases and implement data modeling best practices
• Ensure code quality, performance and security
• Technically educate more junior software/data/analytics engineers, review code and provide guidance
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies
• Optionally, architect, build and manage data pipelines in the cloud (AWS)
• Optionally, perform ETL to process and transform raw data into structured datasets

• 4+ years of experience in leading the development of (web) applications and APIs
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure and performant backend systems
• Collaborated closely with product and data teams throughout the development process and proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Proficient in Python, JavaScript,, HTML and CSS, ideally also SQL
• Expert in web scraping/crawling and data sourcing libraries (in particular, Playwright, Selenium)
• Experience in Web application development & frameworks (Django, Flask, Node.js)
• Ideally, expert knowledge of databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MySQL and data modeling
• Ideally, experience in AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue)
• Proficient in software architecture, design patterns and engineering best practices
• Strong software engineering skills (algorithm design, data structures, distributed system and cloud architectures) and practices (version control, testing, agile methodologies)
• Experience with DevOps tools, cloud platforms and containerization
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, communication & collaboration skills
• Expertise in machine learning algorithms, recommendation engines, statistical analysis and predictive modeling and integrating ML models into products is a plus
• Mentored and trained junior engineers and provided technical guidance
• Fluent in English

Helen Schlegel

Junior HR Specialist