Senior Software Engineer with a passion for Data processing

For our client, a large Danish Retail company, Bloom is looking for an exceptionally gifted Senior Software Engineer to become one of the leading minds behind the company´s future data ecosystem.

Do you want to build an enterprise ready data platform to power the company´s data using cutting-edge technology? Making your mark on platform engineering, you will supply fellow engineers with robust data processing applications, reliable infrastructure and smooth software tooling.

Powering the data analytics and AI use-cases you will also enable business units to make data-driven decisions. The team is highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment, explore and innovate, they are tackling an endless range of exiting new opportunities.

Job profile

You will join highly skilled and seasoned colleagues on the Platform Engineering team in the Data & AI tech hub in Copenhagen. They lead the entire enterprise data platform initiatives and capabilities and drive an ambitious strategy to fundamentally improve how the whole Organization operates based on data.

As a
Senior SW Engineer
, you are contributing with your technical expertise and strong development skills to the success of the company´s enterprise data platform and the use-cases it powers.

In this role, you will:

Develop crucial pieces of the infrastructure with reliability, security, and scalability in mind

Deploy and maintain systems that store and process data

Debug complex system behaviour under high load and devise as well as implement strategies for failure mitigation

Operate the data platform, identify maintenance needs ahead of time and address them

Expand the data platform by identifying and assessing workflows and systems that your colleagues can use advantageously for their work with data

Assess load and plan capacity for production systems

Exchange frequently ideas with colleagues to align on implementation as well as architecture choices

Set-up the data platform for an ambitious roadmap within the company

Personal profile

You are ambitious, self-driven and resourceful. Developing solutions within a team and tackling challenges drives you. With your creative can-do mindset and strong problem-solving skills, you can find opportunities for improving the existing platform, test the effectiveness of different implementations and courses of action.

We imagine that you:

Hold a Master´s Degree, PhD within science and engineering, e.g. computer science, software engineering or electrical engineering

Have senior-level experience from a similar position using two or three programming languages, preferably Go, Rust or Scala

Have significant experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) preferably using Terraform

Have solid understanding of virtualization and containerization under GNU/Linux

Demonstrate deep understanding of Kubernetes and its concept

Demonstrate deep understanding of SQL and its use in large-scale analytics unified engines

Demonstrate strong data and metadata modelling skills and familiarity with standard frameworks, such as Kimball Lifecycle Methodology

Have experience using DataOps and Data Observability principles in practice and operations

Exhibit strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason about complex data engineering and modelling challenges

Train and mentor lower-level engineers on best practices

Have excellent communication skills and proficiency in English

The company offers

A challenging and varied job in an international organization that is constantly developing. The company is characterized by an informal environment, and they highly value cooperation, initiative and new ideas.

Your continued personal and professional development is essential, and you will participate in internal and external courses, education and conferences supporting this constant development. The company offers an appealing compensation package incl. pension scheme, health and casualty insurance, home office; Internet, mobile phone/subscription as well as 5+1-week vacation, discounts, social gatherings and much more…

Practical Information

This is an international organization with many nationalities in many countries. They aim at reflecting the same multicultural environment in their local offices. All qualified applications are therefore very welcome, regardless of nationality, religion, gender, age, or ethnical background.

Bloom is handling the recruitment for this position. For more information, please contact, Senior Consultant, Kristine Heuser at

Please send your application and CV as soon as possible – Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis.