Make your positive impact on the future of gaming

As the gaming industry undergoes rapid transformation, from the rise of free-to-play to the emergence of play-to-earn games and GameFi, Nyan Heroes stands at the vanguard of this revolution. With a focus on crafting a AAA multiplayer shooter set to launch its alpha in late 2024, we're committed to pushing the envelope.

By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Nyan Heroes aims to involve and empower players equitably in all aspects of the game and its economy. Our mission is to set the gold standard for fair, sustainable game development in the GameFi space, leading the industry's advancement technologically, ethically, and inspirationally.

About the role:

We are seeking to hire a Senior Data Engineer who shall help create and define the vision for product-wide analysis and interpretation of data to discover compelling and actionable business insights.

They will create efficient and effective queries that provide timely and accurate reports resulting in maximising databases with a view to current and future scaling.

In addition, they will collaborate with cross-discipline teams from marketing, design, production, engineering and our creative director, delivering insightful, recommendations that result in effective business action plans, guided by senior leadership.

What you’ll be doing:

Data Pipeline Development:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to collect, process, and store data from various sources.
• Ensure pipelines are optimised for performance and cost-effectiveness.

Data Integration:

• Integrate diverse data sources (e.g., APIs, databases, streaming platforms) into unified data systems.
• Implement data transformation and cleansing processes.

Data Infrastructure Management:

• Set up and manage databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Optimise storage solutions for scalability and efficiency.

Security and Compliance:

• Ensure data systems comply with relevant data privacy and security regulations.
• Implement access controls and encryption to protect sensitive data.

Performance and Quality Assurance:

• Monitor and improve the reliability, efficiency, and quality of data systems.
• Implement data validation and error-handling processes to ensure data accuracy.

Collaboration and Support:

• Work with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements.
• Provide support for data-related issues and troubleshooting.

About you:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer within the games industry
• Experience supporting a live service game, from development planning to delivery of content and features post-launch
• At least 1 shipped AAA game on console, or PC.
• Professional experience with Elasticsearch scripted queries
• Professional experience with Azure Analytics/Data and queries
• Experience with Hadoop and modern descendants.
• Professionally skilled in SQL and traditional structured databases
• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting tools to aggregate, normalize and filter large datasets
• A/B Testing: experience in conducting controlled experiments to test the effectiveness of different marketing strategies or content and optimize them.
• Ability to collect, interpret, and analyse data to gain insights into consumer behaviour, trends, and campaign performance.
• Comfortable with and confident in traversing unexplored game design territory, helping refine ideas into shippable features

Nice to have: Experience with first, or third-person shooters is desirable