StepStone Group
Senior Software Engineer II
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Company Description
Who we are
At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in a fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.
Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.
Job Description
The job at a glance
Join our team and you’ll be responsible for providing technical leadership for our Data Platform team, defining technical direction and driving architectural decisions across data, platform, and infrastructure domains.
Working in the Data Platform department you will build scalable, reliable, and well-governed data platform capabilities that support analytics, AI, and business-critical products, while collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Enterprise Architects.
This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your responsibilities
- Define and evolve the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture of the Data Platform, driving decisions across data, platform, and infrastructure domains.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and influencing technical direction.
- Drive engineering excellence by improving code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Support end-to-end delivery by guiding teams through complex technical challenges, improving decision-making, and contributing to planning and risk management.
- Mentor engineers, grow senior technical capabilities, and champion AI-assisted development and engineering automation.
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Qualifications
Your skills and qualifications
- Proven experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or in an equivalent senior individual contributor leadership role.
- Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures, with experience shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Solid expertise in relevant technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue, or Spark, and building scalable data solutions.
- Experience with modern data ecosystems including data lakes/lakehouse architectures, Iceberg, or similar table formats, as well as batch and streaming processing.
- Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing, and observability tools (e.g., Datadog), with DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices as a plus.
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Your benefits
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
- Private medical and dental healthcare
- Pension contribution up to 10%
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance Cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Hybrid working model
- Volunteering days
- and you can bring your dog to the office!
Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.
Legal Entity: The Stepstone Group Polska sp. z o.o.
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