Senior Data Engineer I

Job description

HungerStation, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is hiring a Senior Data Engineer I to design, build, and scale the data platform and processing frameworks that power analytics, AI-driven applications, and business intelligence across the organization. Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable data architectures; building and maintaining high-performance data pipelines and models using BigQuery; optimizing datasets and workloads for performance and cost efficiency; developing analytics-ready data models, semantic layers, and governed metrics; creating backend services and APIs with Python or Java; contributing to AI-enabled data use cases; improving system reliability by addressing technical debt and scaling challenges; applying best practices in CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and deployment automation; managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure supporting the platform; collaborating with cross‑functional teams to ensure data quality and engineering standards; ensuring compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards; enhancing monitoring frameworks and operational resilience; supporting initiatives to improve data quality, reliability, and system stability.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in Data Engineering or similar roles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Master's degree or relevant certifications are a plus
• strong experience building scalable distributed data systems
• hands‑on with GCP (BigQuery preferred)
• proven experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data modeling
• experience with modern data stack (Airflow, dbt, Looker)
• strong SQL skills and understanding of relational data systems
• experience with Python or Java for backend/data services
• familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• experience with CI/CD, testing, and monitoring practices
• exposure to AI-driven data applications or LLM integrations is a plus.

Skills