Senior Data Engineer, CommsData, Decisions Alliance (m/f/x)

The Decisions Alliance’s goal is to enable HelloFresh to build a rapid feedback loop around understanding our customers, finding the best way to communicate with them and utilizing AI/ML capabilities. We’re responsible for the company’s Communications, Customer Data, Experimentation, and MLOps Platforms. Our team works on a variety of technologies ranging from high throughout, real-time communications systems to deep statistical libraries to large-scale machine learning training pipelines.

The role

You will join our cross-functional team dedicated to ensuring effective communication with HelloFresh customers. As a Senior Data Engineer, will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and operating high-scale data processing pipelines that support our communications platform and message types such as email, SMS, and push notifications. Your team will be a place where your thoughts and opinions matter and your contributions will have a tremendous impact on the team’s success.

What you’ll do

• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team of 6-10 members, utilizing diverse technologies and frameworks
• Take ownership of the end-to-end process, including architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of data pipelines, applying DevOps practices, pair programming, and other cutting-edge methodologies 
• Actively contribute as a solution-oriented member within autonomous, cross-functional agile teams, collaborating with product owners, backend engineers, mobile engineers, and business intelligence teams 
• Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh’s core product and architecture, serving as an ambassador for software solutions and providing support and mentorship to colleagues
• Work with state-of-the-art technologies like AWS EMR, Kafka, PySpark, Kubernetes, Airflow, and more

What you’ll bring

• Solid software engineering experience with the ability to design, implement, and deliver maintainable, high-quality code in Python 
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing and data processing technologies, including Spark, Kubernetes
• Proficiency in data modeling, relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and object stores (e.g., AWS S3)
• Expertise in end-to-end development processes, including unit, integration & functional testing, application tuning/profiling, and continuous integration
• Demonstrable experience with agile methodologies, with a strong focus on delivery, lean thinking, and quick iterations
• You seek to continuously develop yourself and learn from your peers
• You thrive in the opportunity to collaborate and mentor team members, while also sharing practical knowledge and trends
• Experience with event-driven architecture is nice to have
• Bonus points for practical experience integrating marketing providers such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, and HubSpot

Interacting with backend engineers, data analysts, product managers and our teams around the world is very much part of our day-to-day, so communication skills are vital. We are looking for strong problem-solvers who can apply their engineering skills to a wide range of platforms and environments while also acting as an ambassador to coach team members and stakeholders.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What we offer

• Comprehensive relocation assistance to move to Berlin plus visa application support
• Healthy discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes
• Subsidised childcare with a professional nannying agency
• Free access to Headspace, biweekly in-house yoga classes (remote since March 2020)
• A diverse and vibrant international environment of 70+ different nationalities
• Additional perks include: Free crash course in German, compensation for advanced external German classes, discounts for our neighbouring gym & Urban Sports Club, company events and parties, discount on our Convini vending machines
• The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase

Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days. 

For insight into our interview process take a look at our recent post here. 

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