Data Engineer - CRM Tech

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!

As part of Team CRM Tech in the Engineering department, you will work in a hybrid role at the intersection of Software Development and Data Engineering.

About your new role

• 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.

• Beyond your data engineering focus, you will have the chance to broaden your impact by supporting our backend services in Subscription Management and Messaging Service, working with technologies such as TypeScript, AWS-CDK and Java Spring Boot.

• 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.

Tech skills

• You have solid experience in designing and optimizing ETL pipelines to extract, transform and load data from distributed sources.
• You are proficient in working with data models, schemas and integration points, and confident using SQL, Spark and Airflow.
• You have hands-on experience with cloud-based data architectures, ideally including Snowflake and AWS services such as Lambda and S3.
• You bring several years of experience developing applications in Python and TypeScript, applying clean code and testing principles.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and messaging tools like AWS CDK, SQS, SNS, Kafka or Aiven is a plus.
• You have a strong interest in software engineering and enjoy contributing to backend services such as our Subscription Management and Messaging Service (experience with Java is an advantage).

Mindset and people skills

• You pursue ambitious goals, focus on outcomes, and are driven to achieve meaningful results for customers and the business.
• 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.
• The confidence to speak up and challenge ideas constructively, paired with openness to diverse perspectives., * You want to further your education? We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.

idealo is a Berlin-based internet success story. Founded in 2000, we started with the mission of helping our users to make the best online buying decisions. 
Today, we are one of the leading product and price comparison platforms in Europe and one of the largest portals in the German e-commerce market. We achieved this by obtaining more than 2.5 million page impressions per day, 50.000 connected Online-Shops, and over 560 million product offers. With a strong focus on convenience, transparency, and technological expertise, we enable our partners to grow their business on idealo as a high-quality traffic and sales driver. 

As a member of our team, you can look forward to working with a large degree of freedom in an international and inspirational environment. We are located in the heart of Berlin but believe that we are happier and can work more effectively when the job fits our individual lives. That's why we offer our employees the freedom to choose their workplace. At idealo, we are convinced that flexibility is fundamental for hybrid working and offer permanent work from anywhere in Germany as well as temporary from abroad. 

We offer a unique idealo spirit. Your ideas are the driving force that moves our business forward. Not only our product portfolio is diverse, but also the people who work on it. We want you just as you are – regardless of origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or a degree of disability.