Database Engineer

Continuum Industries ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
Job Type: Full-time
Contract Type: Permanent

Overview

We are Continuum Industries. A seed-stage startup developing tools for engineers to create better infrastructure. Our tools help to design infrastructure such as railways, roads, pipelines or power lines. The final value of our product is that it helps to get clean water from its source to your hot shower, packets of data from a data centre to your computer and electricity from a wind farm to your light bulb. We were founded in June 2018 with initial angel funding from Skyscanner's Gareth Williams. Since then, we have closed our first big enterprise customers and we're now gearing up to openly launch our product to the world, but we can't cope with the work on our own. Currently, we're a crew of ten and we're looking to expand our engineering and product team to develop and launch the fully standalone version of our optimisation engine.   OVERVIEW: We're looking for database engineer to work on storage and manipulation of large amounts of geospatial data, storage and handling of system model setups as well as managing data for machine learning models.    LOCATION: CodeBase in Central Edinburgh with opportunities to move to London if of interest in the future.   WE ARE LOOKING FOR FAMILIARITY WITH: Postgres (as well as PostGIS) or similar relational database noSQL databases AWS Aurora Versioning and migrating databases   WE THINK THAT YOU WILL LIKE THIS ROLE IF YOU: Like working closely with several teams around you Are passionate about creating and curating a global geospatial dataset which will allow engineers to bring projects to fruition anywhere in the world. Enjoy setting up and curating large amounts of algorithm data for the purpose of machine learning models.   WHAT WE OFFER: Decent salary, share ownership options, pension and office coffee served by the CEO Ownership of your work and lots of independence Flexible working Personal training budget Exposure to big engineering companies and the startup world We also don’t really count the days on annual leave