My client whom have offices globally offer you package where you can be based in UK or sunny Barcelona. They are making a real-world impact by developing the latest technology to dramatically improve efficiencies of the mining industry. 

They are disrupting the mining industry with a platform that building will continuously optimise the world’s industrial equipment, dramatically improving efficiency and productivity. The current focus is on minerals processing and mining.

The engineering team is made up of people from a broad range of backgrounds, including computer science, mathematics, and physics, as well as informal tech backgrounds built on self-directed learning and online programming courses. My client is interested in people from diverse backgrounds, and we value people who want to continuously learn.

The Role

You will be working in our engineering team to extend and build out our backend services and data processing platform for giving insights into the current operation of equipment, and giving control recommendations based on predicted performance.

What you’ll do

• Extending our data processing pipeline to be more configurable to be able to handle future applications.
• Help create a microservice based data processing platform which allows for scaling of the amount of data processed and the number of clients supported in the system
• Collaborating with the data science team to integrate equipment/process models to make them ready for use in the processing platform.
• Ensuring that the processing platform has good test coverage to ensure the platform is defect free.
• Building a system for configuring the processing platform for different clients.

Our technology stack

They are using the latest tools for development (GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes) and modern software development methodologies with Scrum. Our application currently uses: Node.js, PlottableJS, D3.js, React, Mobx, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Flink, and Microservices based on Node.js, Python, and Java.

Who you are

• You have worked on backend services, data pipelines and/or microservices
• You write clean, maintainable code and love working on interesting problems
• You have a passion for building products which will be used every day
• You’re interested in building resilient software
• You have experience writing Java, Node.js, and/or Python

What’s on offer

• Competitive salary
• Performance bonus
• Unlimited annual leave
• The opportunity to make your mark in an innovative industry using the Internet of Things, Big Data and AI