Senior Data Engineer for Enterprise Integration

On behalf of our partner Douglas, we seek the best talent to join rindus. Douglas is a retail company for beauty, health and cosmetic products in 19 European countries. We are collaborating to improve their main product channel, their e-commerce. With the company headquarters in Düsseldorf (Germany), you will work in a distributed team from our office in Málaga (Spain)., * Define Kafka topic strategies, partitioning models, schema governance, retention concepts, and operational best practices

• Build reliable real-time data pipelines using Kafka
• Improve data reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency across the platform
• Drive engineering standards around data modeling, CI/CD, testing, and infrastructure automation
• Support the migration from legacy integrations toward modern event driven and cloud-native architectures
• Mentor on and contribute to architectural and technical decisions
• Continuously evaluate and introduce technologies that improve scalability and developer productivity
• You work in an agile, product driven team setup
• You are in close contact with your IT colleagues and understand the needs and requirements of a high-performance, secure and stable platform operation.

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Deep practical knowledge of Kafka and event-driven architecture design
• Experience operating Kafka in production
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data integration, and scalable processing concepts
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure automation (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Beneficial: Experience with Enterprise Service Bus technologies such as Qlik Talend or SAP S4 / BTP
• A firm understanding and practical experience in tools and processes to ensure software quality, such as Unit Tests, TDD and Test Automation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional teams
• You don't have to know every technology. More important is a tech background, a growth mindset, strong self-motivation and being passionate about your job. You should have fun learning new stuff.
• Very good English language proficiency, Good German language skills are a plus.

• ️ Competitive compensation package (restaurants, transport and childcare)
• ️ Flexible working model: remote
• 23 holiday days.
• Flexible schedules with core working hours.

️ DKV private health insurance from day 1.

• Gym Sponsorship.

️ English and German language classes. A young and ambitious team that knows when to work but also when to have fun (Pizza day, Summer event, Málaga Tech Games, etc).

Hey! Get ready to set sails and navigate the rindus wave ️ We're rindus, a People company. We love IT professionals and our passion is to help and empower our crew to get the best out of themselves, unfold their full potential, and help them grow. Because growth is in our mindset, we're doing it since 2017, closely with our European Partners, helping them shape their software development teams. So far, we have 200+ crew members of 21 different nationalities sailing with us in the open seas. We 're expanding our team and looking for a new rinder to get on board. Are you the next to be reeled in?