idealo is currently looking for a Senior Data Engineer for our Team CRM Tech. You want to help idealo become the best platform for making shopping decisions in Europe? You seek a team culture that is based on openness, respect, integrity, and trust? Then you will enjoy this opportunity!
The position of Senior Data Engineer (f|m|x) is offered full-time or part-time.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

Tech skills

• You have experience in setting up and optimizing ETL pipelines to extract and transform data.
• You can understand and work with data, including performing transformations and mapping between different data formats or models, and you are familiar with data pipelines, schemas, and integration points.
• You bring in several years of professional experience in developing applications with Python and Typescript and you are comfortable with SQL, Spark and orchestration tools, such as Airflow.
• You are proficient with the development, design, deployment and maintenance of cloud-based applications (especially AWS services, such as Lambdas, S3 and RedShift). Hands-on experience with AWS-CDK, SQS, SNS, Kafka and Aiven would be an advantage.

Mindset and people skills

• You proactively seek and integrate feedback to foster personal and professional development, while excelling in an environment that supports your growth, initiative and creativity.
• You have a forward-thinking mindset, enjoy diving into new technologies and approaches, such as AI, early on, and thrive on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and driving innovation within teams.
• You feel responsible not only for your own work results, but also for your team’s success.
• Great communication skills in English complete your profile. This allows you to exchange, discuss and share knowledge with colleagues and stakeholders.

You don’t tick all the boxes? Don’t worry, we are looking for employees who convince us with their personality and are motivated to go on full power with their team!

• As part of Team CRM Tech in the Engineering department, you provide a strong foundation for business growth on cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) and robust platform products.
• While driving the ongoing improvement of our core products ‘identity resolution’ and CRM tech platform, including ETL pipelines, you ensure compliant data integration from distributed sources, supporting our retention strategy with a strong focus on reliability and scalability.
• Writing testable, maintainable, and high-quality code is a core part of the role, including taking operational responsibility for developed components.
• A pragmatic and adaptable approach is essential to deal with evolving requirements while delivering lightweight and flexible solutions to stakeholder problems.
• Ownership and accountability are key: the role requires balancing implementation effort with expected value, always aiming for meaningful and cost-conscious outcomes.