EDITED

About EDITED

EDITED is the global leader in Retail Intelligence. We help retailers increase margins, generate more sales and drive better outcomes through AI-driven Automation and Market & Enterprise Intelligence.

By connecting internal enterprise and external market data, brands like Gymshark, Puma and Abercrombie & Fitch use the EDITED suite of intelligence products to drive insights into action in a more profitable and coordinated way.

At EDITED, we always dream big, with a commitment to deliver measurable value to our customers. We believe in exceeding expectations and challenging the status quo. We do so by delivering our powerful Retail Intelligence Platform that drives better and faster decision making for retailers.

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.

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.