Data Engineer, Growth Data Engineering

About the role

Join the Growth Data Engineering team at GetYourGuide to build trusted data foundations and self-serve capabilities for customer growth. You'll work within the strategic Flywheel Data Engineering group to create reliable data products that help acquire and retain customers across the travel marketplace.

What you'll do

• Build end-to-end data solutions independently that power traveler-facing decision-making for acquisition, conversion, engagement, and retention
• Work closely with Product and Data teams to translate business needs into delivered outcomes and drive adoption of self-serve data capabilities
• Apply best practices in code quality, data modeling, testing, and monitoring/alerting while contributing to operational support
• Pragmatically refactor and simplify existing pipelines/models, fix data quality issues at root cause, and make performance improvements
• Participate in planning/roadmap, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to raise team effectiveness
• Maintain sustainable balance between operational responsibilities and building new solutions using team SLOs

What you'll need

• 3+ years in a relevant data role with hands-on experience across data engineering technologies and analytics tooling
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English for technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in SQL & Python, building robust data pipelines and data models at scale in warehouses/lakes (Delta, Snowflake, PostgreSQL/MySQL)
• Strong DBT proficiency and familiarity with Spark, with focus on data quality, accuracy, and reliability
• Solid understanding of data visualization through tools like Looker/Tableau and notebooks (Jupyter)
• Ability to prioritize effectively, manage stakeholders, and translate business needs into technical plans
• Proactive, customer-oriented mindset comfortable with end-to-end project ownership
• AI-first mindset using modern AI tools while maintaining quality, security, and governance standards

Nice to have

• Experience delivering data products in growth and marketing domains (marketing attribution, brand, CRM)
• Track record shipping data solutions that improved acquisition and retention
• Strong CS fundamentals with Java/Scala experience and polyglot mindset

What they offer

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs
• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
• Hybrid working approach with three days office collaboration, two days optional remote
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts on GetYourGuide activities for you, friends, and family
• Health and wellness benefits plus language reimbursement program