946 Data Engineer jobs in New Delhi

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

- Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
- Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
- Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

- Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
- Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
- Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
- Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
- Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

- Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
- Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
- As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
- Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
- Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
- Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
- Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
- Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
- Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
- Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
- Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
- In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
- Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
- In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
- Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
- Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
- Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
- IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
- Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
- Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
- An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
- Knowledge of the git version control system.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Who we are

Alef Education began with a bold idea: that every learner deserves a personalised and meaningful education experience. What started in 2016 as a small pilot programme in Abu Dhabi has evolved into one of the world’s most dynamic EdTech companies—reshaping how millions of students engage with learning across the globe.

Today, Alef is proudly headquartered in the UAE, working hand-in-hand with ministries of education, schools, and teachers to bring smart, data-powered platforms into classrooms in over 14,000 schools.

Supporting over 1.1 million students and 50,000 teachers across the UAE, Indonesia & Morocco our AI-driven platforms generate 16+ million data points every day, helping drive smarter learning decisions. Whether it’s improving national exam results, boosting classroom engagement, or supporting educators with world-class tools, Alef is committed to impact at scale.

In 2024, Alef made history as the first EdTech company to list on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), cementing our role as a regional innovator with global reach.

About The Role

As an ALEF Big Data Engineer you will have a strong understanding of big data technologies with an exceptional ability to code. You will provide technical leadership, working closely with the wider team to ensure high quality code is delivered in line with the project goals and delivery cycles. You will work closely with other teams to deliver rapid prototypes as well as production code for which you will ensure high accessibility standards are upheld. We expect familiarity with modern frameworks and languages, as well as working practices such as Clean Code, TDD, BDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

Defining and developing services and solutions

• Define, design, and develop services and solutions around large data ingestion, storage, and management such as withRDBMS, No SQL DBs, Log Files, Events.
• Define, design, and run robust data pipelines/batch jobs in a production environment.
• Architecting highly scalable, highly concurrent, and low latency systems

Maintain, support, and enhance current systems.

• Contribute to paying down technical debt and use development approaches that minimize the growth of new technical debt.
• Contribute feedback to improve the quality, readability, and testability of the code base within your team.
• Mentor and train other developers in a non-line management capacity.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

Collaborating with Internal and external stakeholders

• Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside.
• Work with third-party and other internal providers to support a variety of integrations.
• As part of the team, you may be expected to participate in some of the 2nd line in-house support and Out-of-Hours support rotas.
• Proactively advise on best practices.

To Be The Right Fit, You'll Need

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a Big Data
• Follow Clean Code/Solid principles
• Adhere and use TDD/BDD.
• Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.
• Highly Proficient in either Functional Java or Scala, Python
• Knowledge of Azure Big Data/Analytics services – ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage), HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Fabric, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks
• Experience of Storing Data in systems such as Hadoop HDFS, ADLS, Event Hubs
• Experience of designing, setting up and running big data tech stacks such as Hadoop, Azure Databricks, Spark and distributed datastores such as Cassandra, DocumentDBs, MongoDB, Event Hubs
• In-depth knowledge of Hadoop technology ecosystem – HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, Event Hubs, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, SPARK, Avro, Parquet
• Experience debugging a complex multi-server service.
• In depth knowledge and experience in IaaS/PaaS solutions (eg AWS Infrastructure hosting and managed services)
• Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Understanding continuous integration and delivery.
• Mocking (any of the following Mockito, ScalaTest Spock, Jasmine, Mocha).
• IDE Intellij or Eclipse.
• Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).
• Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
• Knowledge of the git version control system.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join their fully remote team, specializing in Big Data solutions. This role is crucial for designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure that support advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, data warehousing, ETL processes, and cloud-based data platforms. You will be responsible for architecting scalable data solutions, ensuring data quality and integrity, and collaborating with data scientists and analysts to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, and Hadoop ecosystem.
• Build and manage data warehouses and data lakes on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement robust ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and load data from various sources.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across all data systems.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions.
• Develop and maintain data models that support analytical needs and reporting.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Stay current with emerging big data technologies and best practices, and evaluate their potential adoption.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Contribute to the overall data strategy and architecture of the organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on Big Data technologies.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java.
• Extensive experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop).
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services (e.g., S3, Redshift, BigQuery, Data Factory).
• Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with data warehousing concepts and ETL/ELT tools.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work remotely on challenging Big Data projects and contribute to a data-centric culture. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment that fosters growth and innovation.