Data Engineer, Traveler Data Engineering

📋 Description

• • Embark on a transformative career journey with GetYourGuide, a leading global online platform dedicated to connecting people with unforgettable travel experiences. Our mission is to make every journey extraordinary, and this commitment extends to fostering an exceptional environment for our employees. Join our vibrant community of explorers at our Berlin HQ and contribute to shaping the future of travel.
• • As a Data Engineer within the Traveler Data Engineering team, a crucial part of the strategic Flywheel Data Engineering group, you will play a pivotal role in constructing the trusted data foundations and self-serve capabilities essential for the traveler-centric aspects of our marketplace. Your expertise will be instrumental in ingesting, integrating, and structuring critical internal and external datasets into reliable tables, metrics, and data products.
• • These data products will empower GetYourGuide to significantly enhance the customer experience throughout the entire traveler journey, from initial discovery to post-trip engagement. You will achieve this through close collaboration with our Product and Data teams, enabling them to accelerate their initiatives with confidence and data-driven insights.
• • Your primary mission will be to independently build end-to-end data solutions. This involves delivering robust, high-quality datasets and pipelines that directly support traveler-facing decision-making across key areas such as acquisition, conversion, engagement, and retention. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of these data solutions, ensuring their reliability and impact.
• • You will serve as a trusted thought partner to Product and Data stakeholders, translating complex business needs into tangible, delivered outcomes. A key aspect of this role is driving the adoption of trusted, self-serve data capabilities, empowering teams to access and utilize data effectively.
• • Delivering high technical craft is paramount. You will apply best practices in code quality, data modeling, comprehensive testing strategies, and proactive monitoring and alerting. Your commitment to operational excellence will extend to supporting the solutions you ship, continuously improving their reliability and performance over time.
• • A significant part of your role will involve improving existing production systems. This includes pragmatically refactoring and simplifying current pipelines and models, identifying and fixing data quality issues at their root cause, and implementing targeted performance and cost optimizations within your designated scope.
• • You will actively contribute to broader team outcomes by participating in strategic planning and roadmap development, engaging in constructive code reviews, and actively sharing knowledge to elevate the overall effectiveness and skill set of the team.
• • A strong operational mindset is essential. You will maintain a sustainable balance between fulfilling operational responsibilities and developing new solutions, utilizing team Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as a guiding input for prioritizing improvements and ensuring system stability.
• • Your technical toolkit will include extensive experience with SQL and Python, essential for building sophisticated data pipelines and data models. You will operate data at scale within modern data warehouses and lakes, such as Delta, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, with an unwavering focus on data quality, accuracy, and reliability. Proficiency in dbt and familiarity with Spark are also key components of this role.
• • You will leverage your solid understanding of data visualization and enablement tools like Looker/Tableau and notebooks such as Jupyter to present insights effectively. A strong business and stakeholder focus will enable you to prioritize tasks effectively, manage stakeholder expectations, and translate business requirements into clear technical plans and successful project deliveries.
• • We value autonomy and ownership. You are expected to be proactive, customer-oriented, and comfortable owning projects from inception to completion, adeptly balancing system health considerations (monitoring, performance, cost) with the delivery of new features and capabilities.
• • Your collaborative spirit and mentoring mindset will be highly valued, as you share knowledge, raise team standards through rigorous reviews, and contribute to the collective success of the team. An AI-first mindset is encouraged, utilizing modern AI tools to enhance productivity and accelerate problem-solving while upholding stringent standards for quality, security, and governance.
• • While not strictly required, experience in the traveler domain, having delivered data solutions for marketplaces, and thriving in complex, multi-stakeholder environments will provide a significant edge. Similarly, a strong grasp of customer journey analysis and metric thinking, enabling the translation of ambiguous product questions into crisp, shared definitions and robust data solutions, will be highly beneficial.
• • A background in software engineering craft, including strong Computer Science fundamentals and a polyglot mindset comfortable with languages like Java/Scala, coupled with a dedication to clean code, solid testing habits, and pragmatic automation, will further enhance your candidacy.