Senior Data Engineer

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In this role, you will develop end-to-end data solutions, maintain robust data pipelines, optimize architectures, and closely collaborate with Marketing and Engineering teams to support data-driven decision-making.

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Your role in the team

  • Own the data end-to-end: Deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions that enable growth decision-making across acquisition, conversion, engagement, and retention.
  • Be a trusted thought partner: Work closely with Marketing, Analytics and Engineering to translate business needs into delivered outcomes and drive adoption of trusted, self-serve data capabilities.
  • Drive technical excellence in the stack: Lead system design for new capabilities and continuously evolve what's already in production - architecture, testing, observability, performance, and cost efficiency - with a bias toward simplicity, reusability, and maintainability.
  • Strong operational mindset: Maintain a sustainable balance between operational responsibilities and building new solutions, using team SLOs as an input to prioritize improvements.
  • Level up the team and shape how we build: Raise the engineering bar through strong code reviews, design input, and hands-on support, and influence standards and technology choices with a focus on simplicity, reusability, and maintainability.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, able to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Data engineering depth: Expertise in SQL & Python, building robust data pipelines and data models, and operating data at scale in warehouses/lakes (e.g., Delta, Snowflake, PostgreSQL/MySQL) with strong focus on data quality, accuracy, and reliability. Strong dbt proficiency and familiarity with Spark.
  • Reporting & insights: Solid understanding of data visualization and enablement through tools like Looker/Tableau and notebooks (e.g., Jupyter).
  • Business and stakeholder focus: Able to prioritize effectively, manage stakeholders, and translate business needs into clear technical plans and delivered outcomes.
  • Autonomy & ownership: Proactive, customer-oriented, and comfortable owning projects end-to-end, balancing system health (monitoring, performance, cost) with new delivery.
  • Team impact: Collaborative and mentoring-minded, enjoys sharing knowledge, raising standards through reviews, and helping the team succeed.
  • AI-first mindset: Uses modern AI tools to boost productivity and accelerate solving business needs - while maintaining strong standards for quality, security, and governance.

Experience

  • Experience: 5+ years in a relevant data role. You've built and owned a data domain end-to-end - from source integration through to the models and metrics that downstream teams depend on.

What we offer

  • Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development.
  • Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year.
  • A hybrid working approach with three days of in-office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thu) and two days of optional at-home focus time.
  • Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events.
  • Monthly transportation and fitness budget.
  • Rabatte für Sie, Ihre Freunde und Familie bei GetYourGuide-Aktivitäten.
  • Language reimbursement program.
  • Health and wellness benefits.

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Work-Life-Integration

Higher take-home pay

Topics you will work on

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About your employer

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Founding year
2009
Language
English
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Hybrid, Onsite
Industry
Internet, IT, Telecommunication

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Senior Data Engineer

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