Data Engineer

About Kwalee

Kwalee is a games publisher and developer based in Leamington Spa, UK, which boasts more than 1 billion installs on mobile platforms with games such as Teacher Simulator, Draw it, Bake It, Shootout 3D, Rocket Sky! and Line Up: Draw the Criminal. The company also publishes a growing catalogue of PC and console titles including Eternal Hope, Tens, Scathe, and Wildmender along with the upcoming titles ROBOBEAT, Space Chef, The Precinct and The Spirit of the Samurai.
Founded by games industry icon and Codemasters co-founder David Darling CBE, who is joined by a fast-growing team of global gaming experts with studios in the UK, India, Portugal and China and remote team members all over the world, Kwalee is on the lookout for high-quality games to publish on all platforms and encourages developers to get in touch. Outside of its games, Kwalee is also highly active in the industry, as an ambassador of not-for-profit organisation Women in Games and a regular supporter of the charity SpecialEffect.

Position

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Data Engineer at Kwalee, you will be responsible for transforming streams of gameplay, marketing and business data into a valuable resource for Kwalee’s Data and Engineering team. You will be the primary developer of ETL processes connecting our players and datastores. You will architect and plan the best structures to deliver value to our data, product and marketing teams.

Your Team Mates
The Data Science team is central in developing the technology behind the growth and monetisation of our games. We are a cross functional team that consists of analysts, engineers and data scientists, and work closely with the larger engineering team to deliver products spanning our modern, cloud first, tech stack.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Develop, test and maintain Kwalee’s data systems

• Support game development and internal software development projects with solid data infrastructure

• Build pipelines to reliably deliver high quality data to applications and people across Kwalee

• Create, manage and optimise the usage of our data warehouses

• Work with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure the scalability and performance of our data infrastructure as our business evolves

Your qualification

Your Hard Skills

• You have created complex, high volume data pipelines

• You have at least 3 years of experience building, managing and operating SQL databases

• You have at least 2 years of experience using Python to automate data flows and other tasks

• You have worked in depth with cloud services, ideally AWS

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

What we offer

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• A dog friendly office (There’s dog-free areas too, if pooches aren’t your thing)

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• VISA Sponsorship - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior

• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

• Kwalee Artificial Intelligence (K.A.I) - win prizes for proposing useful AI initiatives