Data Engineer

About

OKO is on a mission to assure income for those who feed the world.

OKO (http://www.oko.finance) uses technologies to create and distribute affordable crop insurance products in emerging markets to protect smallholder farmers against climate risks. We use satellite weather information to analyse risk of specific events (e.g. drought, flood, hurricane) and create a parametric insurance product that compensates farmers as soon as this event is detected. OKO also uses mobile technologies (SMS, USSD, Mobile Money) to offer these insurance products to un-banked populations.

OKO won the 2018 Orange Social Venture Prize and is a graduate of the Techstars Accelerator. OKO recently raised a seed round of USD 1.2m from institutional and strategic investors. This gives us the means to accelerate our growth and implement our strategy for the next 2 years.

As of October 2023m about 27,000 farmers have been insured by OKO.

Job Description

The data engineer is working alongside the co-founder and VP product of OKO and will be responsible for building the tools to accelerate the creation of innovative climate insurance products for agriculture. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with demonstrated experience and ideally some training in meteorological science. Additionally, successful candidates will be well-organized and detail oriented, and will work well in a collaborative / innovative team environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Working closely with VP of product to understand data requirements and develop data solutions to support the business growth of climate insurance products
• Maintaining and growing the existing data infrastructure for climate insurance products
• Designing, developing and automating high quality data management to improve dataset usability
• Developing and maintaining scalable and robust data pipelines using related technologies
• Implementing best practices for data modelling and data integration
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving issues relating to data pipelines
• Staying current with industry trends and advancement in data engineering
• Contributing to the developments and enhancement of data engineering standards, practices and documentation
• Processing common geospatial data types: both raster (GeoTIFF/COG/ZARR/NetCDF/GRIB) and vector (SHP/GeoJSON/others)

Preferred Experience

• 3 years of experience (training in meteorological science would be a big plus)
• Languages: fluent in English. French or Hebrew is a plus
• Technical: Experienced in DevOps, Linux, Microsoft Azure. Advanced proficiency in R

Recruitment Process

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To apply, please follow the link : https://oko.welcomekit.co/jobs/data-engineer_tel-aviv-yafo

Additional Information

• Contract Type: Full-Time
• Start Date: 01 December 2023
• Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: > 3 years
• Possible partial remote
• Salary: between 6000$ and 7000$ / month