Data Engineer

Summary

Join OLX's Data Engineering team as a domain data engineer in Marketing Technology. You will be responsible for delivering data via key pipelines to support marketing teams' decision-making. Working within a central team across Lisbon, Berlin, and Poznan, you'll collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely data delivery. This role involves building and maintaining data pipelines using technologies like AWS Redshift, Trino, Python, and more. You will also promote data mesh principles, act as a data ambassador, and contribute to improving data literacy within the engineering organization. The position requires at least two years of experience building complex data pipelines and working with both technical and business stakeholders. OLX offers a competitive salary, annual bonus, health insurance, training budget, remote work options, and more.

Requirements

• +2 years experience building complex data pipelines and working with both technical and business stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think creatively; highly driven and self-motivated
• Good SQL language regardless of the underlying data technology. Writes efficient, easy-to-read, and crisp SQL code
• Relevant experience with designing for scale and data growth in terms of storage and performance
• Potential to build rock-solid Python applications - writes understandable and maintainable code
• Relevant experience with cloud data technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure Cloud), such as Redshift, Athena, Spark
• Knowledge and curiosity about other big data technologies and tools
• Good communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal proficiency in English

Responsibilities

• Enable efficient consumption of domain data as a product by delivering and promoting strategically designed actionable datasets and data models
• Build, maintain, and improve rock-solid data pipelines using a broad range of technologies like AWS Redshift, Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), Python, Spark, Airflow, and Kinesis streaming
• Support teams without data engineers with building decentralized data solutions and product integrations, for example around DynamoDB
• Follow and promote Data Mesh principles around decentralized data ownership and ‘data as a product’
• Act as a data ambassador promoting the value of data and our data platform among engineering teams and enabling cooperation
• Continuously look for opportunities to integrate data into our end products
• Cooperate with product teams to streamline source data so that data is cleaner earlier in the process
• Enforce privacy and security standards (privacy by design)
• Increase data literacy of the engineering organization by hosting trainings and mentoring other engineers (both less experienced data engineers and software engineers)

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience working with Marketing, advertising teams are a plus
• Experience with data consulting and managing stakeholders are also a plus
• Relevant experience with analytics and defining metrics
• Relevant experience with measuring data quality

Benefits

• Permanent contract
• Competitive salary + annual bonus up to 15% of your annual gross salary
• Work with and impact all OLX websites
• Health insurance
• Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• MacBook Pro along with necessary accessories to make your work comfortable
• 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our office in Barcelona)