At Levi9, we are passionate about what we do. We are looking for skilled team players who make change happen. As the demand for engineers is continuously growing, our teams are expanding.

Our client is a leading media company in Western Europe, delivering high-quality content across various platforms, including newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, websites, apps, and podcasts. Their brands reach millions of people daily, shaping the media landscape with independent and trusted journalism. You’ll be working on a personalization engine that serves all customers of our client, across all media offerings. The customer team is a cross-functional with data engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists. 

Project, teams, requirements & duties

 What you will be working on?

• Maintain and extend our recommendation back-end.
• Support operational excellence through practices like code review and pair programming.
• Actively monitoring different applications and their infrastructure as well as intervening to solve operational problems whenever they arise
• Communicate about technical and functional requirements with people outside of the team

 What do we expect from you?

• 5+ years of experience in software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot technical issues
• Affinity with data analysis
• A natural interest in digital media products
• Experience in building microservices in Python and supporting large-scale applications
• Experience building APIs with FastAPI
• Experience in developing applications in a Kubernetes environment
• Developing batch jobs in Apache Spark (Pyspark or Scala)
• Developing streaming applications for Apache Kafka in Python (experience with Kafka is a big plus)
• Working with CI/CD pipelines
• Writing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• AWS certification at the Associate level or higher, or willingness to obtain it
• Collaborative mindset with enthusiasm for teamwork and techniques like pair programming
• Willingness to travel for business trips to Belgium and the Netherlands

Nice to have:

• Machine learning knowledge

Our projects & stack: 

You will be working closely with a tech stack that includes Python, Scala, Kafka and Kubernetes.

 What do we offer?

And much more! You will hear more details during the interview!