(Senior) Data Engineer (f/m/d)

Cologne
from today / asap

Your duties

Trusted Shops develops SaaS solutions for over 30 million users and 30.000 companies all over Europe. Our product suite includes products such as the Trustmark, buyer protection and the experience feedback platform eTrusted. With our products we pursue the mission to enable trust between people and businesses in the digital age over the last 20 years.
The Data Platform Team contributes to this mission by providing the foundation of data-driven work, both for our colleagues, and for our customers. Ranging from metrics that measure our product usage and success, to facts and figures that provide guidance to our customers to improve their business.
All these outcomes require quality data, and that’s why we are looking for a Data Engineer that thrives in a creative, changing environment, loves to build great products, and is passionate about positively impacting the user experience.
You will support a diverse team. We have Data Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Analysts, and support from a Product Owner and Agile Coach, working as a cross-functional team.
We believe in the "You build it, you own it" philosophy, where you take charge of shepherding changes through every stage until they go live in production.
What will you be working on?
In your role, you will write Python and SQL, with the potential for some Terraform. Your focus will be in supporting and enabling the team colleagues but also being part of the implementation topics. You should be comfortable building data applications in a cloud environment (we use AWS).
Our applications use a wide range of data engineering tools, such as Airbyte, AWS Kinesis Firehose, Dagster, DuckDB, Luigi, Iceberg, Metabase and many more to achieve our goals of providing services and APIs, orchestrating data ingestion and transformation journeys from source systems to high quality datasets. We currently are focused on building the Analytics Layer, an API which provides aggregated datasets at low latencies. You’ll be supporting us in making all this happen at scale.
What your main tasks and responsibilities will be:

• You build and present standard interfaces to ingest, transform and serve data within the Data Platform
• You take ownership of implementing, monitoring, and maintaining data pipelines.
• You ensure data quality and transparency of our data, using quality checks, monitoring, and alerting across the entire data lifecycle.
• You collaborate with the team to identify opportunities which further innovate the Data Platform, leveraging existing or new technologies.
• You onboard our data providers, lowering the barrier to provide data to our platform.
• You communicate with stakeholders and team members to identify their needs and can translate these requirements into tangible outcomes.

Why join Trusted Shops?

• Personal Development: You’ll receive direct support from your Engineering Manager, ensuring your growth and success.
• Health & Wellbeing: Participate in monthly health activities and earn an extra vacation day for achieving health goals.
• Continuous Learning: Enjoy your “Self Education Day” every last Friday of the month, where you can focus on personal growth, attend internal tech talks, read a book, or work on your goals.
• Inclusive Work Culture: Flexible working options and a focus on work-life balance.

A typical day as a (Senior) Data Engineer (f/m/d) at Trusted Shops:

• Time to get started, either from your home, or at the office.
• Open JIRA, our task manager, and pick a topic you’d like to work on: a quick win, or maybe the start of a bigger project? It’s up to you.
• Check in with us in the daily standup. Need any help? We’re here for you. We tend to keep dailies focused and short, but we’ll also stick around for small talk every now and then. Who knows, maybe your teammates are working on something interesting, and you’d like to join?
• Depending on the daily, you’ll start working alone for a bit, or maybe you decided to tackle something in a pair or mob programming session?
• Lunch break! We’re flexible between 12:00 and 14:00. If we’re in the office together, maybe we’ll visit our favorite lunch and coffee places in Cologne.
• In the office today? Maybe it’s Waffle Day or Health Day? Don’t forget to grab a freshly baked waffle or a smoothie before getting back to your desk.
• Had a good lunch break? Let’s continue what you’ve started before lunch, either on your own or with the team.
• Let’s call it a day! If you’re in the office, there are free drinks on the rooftop terrace, if you’d like.
• Or maybe it’s the monthly self-education day? In that case, there’s no meetings! You’re free to pick something you’d like to learn and improve on. There’s also Tech Talks, where you can learn from your colleagues.

Your profile

Requirements :

• You are familiar with ELT processes for data transformation and have worked with an orchestration framework such as Luigi, Airflow, Prefect or Dagster.
• You are familiar with the most common data formats (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Iceberg) and typical (data) interfaces.
• You have high level of proficiency with Python and SQL. Terraform and bash are a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, CloudWatch is a plus.
• Actively participate in data engineering discussions with the team, our Data Engineering Meetups and company Tech Talks.
• You have experience with concepts such as data lineage, data quality management, data privacy (GDPR), observability and incident management.
• Extensive knowledge of software engineering principles
• You have gathered 3 or more years of experience as a Data Engineer.
• You collaborate based on mutual respect.
• You have excellent communication skills in English. German is a plus.

What we offer you

• New Work: work up to 100% mobile (or on-site/hybrid) within Germany and take advantage of our flexible model
• MacBook Pro
• 27 vacation days + 3.5 additional days off at Christmas, New Year's Eve and Carnival
• Buddy programme (an experienced trustee at your side)
• Individual training opportunities
• Events (Team Events, Unit Events, etc.)
• Health Pass (free online and offline sports, fitness and health courses)
• An international and diverse environment - colleagues from over 40 nations who work for 13 markets in 5 offices across Europe
• A unique company spirit - an open error culture, enthusiasm for good results, and giving every individual room for growth

BUILD A COMMUNITY OF TRUST WITH US - #cometotrust
Not sure if you are what we are looking for? Apply!
At Trusted Shops, we are interested in you as a person - whether you fit in with us is
independent of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. Trusted Shops is clearly committed to diversity and against discrimination.