We are looking for a Sr. Data Engineer to join our Backend & Data Team an expert who develops maintains and manages data processing pipelines to ensure consistent and efficient data delivery for downstream consumers such as analytics or machine learning applications.
Your playing field at Gini
Data Pipelines and Integration: You develop manage and optimize data processing pipelines integrating external data sources for enrichment and ensuring scalability efficiency and consistency for downstream analytics or machine learning
Database and System Design: You create and maintain data models schemas and metadata; ensure databases meet scalability safety and efficiency requirements; and collaborate with platform engineering for maintenance
Backend Development: You design implement and maintain backend services including architecture design technology selection and integration of software patterns container technologies and message brokers (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ)
Team Collaboration: You collaborate with crossfunctional teams mentor junior developers lead technical discussions and contribute to team strategy and system improvements while addressing technical debt
Quality and Optimization: You proactively troubleshoot debug and resolve backend issues; identify performance bottlenecks security vulnerabilities and scalability challenges and support quality improvements
Agile and Stakeholder Engagement: You actively engage in agile ceremonies adapt to changing priorities estimate tasks effectively and communicate progress risks and challenges with stakeholders
Continuous Improvement: You stay updated with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices to improve backend systems and align with organizational goals
Skills to be successful
You have 5 years of experience in backend development data engineering or a similar role with expertise in building and maintaining scalable systems
You have strong proficiency in programming languages like Java Python Scala or Kotlin as well as automation and CI/CD practices
You possess practical experience with diverse database technologies (e.g. SQL NoSQL Cassandra Elasticsearch Kafka) and database optimization techniques
You are experienced in designing and managing data pipelines integrating external data sources and ensuring data scalability and efficiency
You are proficient with container technologies (e.g. Docker Podman) and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) as well as messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ Kafka)
You excel at troubleshooting and debugging backend systems addressing performance bottlenecks and improving system scalability and security
You are familiar with agile methodologies actively participating in sprint planning standups and retrospectives while staying updated on emerging technologies and best practices
Your perks
You have the choice Mobile working from home or in our bright office with two spacious roof terraces according to your needs
Flexibility early bird or a night owl you have flexible working hours
Growing together further development is crucial so you will receive an annual budget of 2500 net and additional days off for your personal and professional development. In addition we give you one learning day off per month which you can use according to your development needs
Exclusive access to our external coaching pool: enjoy free coaching sessions on topics of your choice!
50 net per month on top which you can use for childcare public transport internet or health courses according to your needs
Food allowance We have an excellent employee restaurant in our office building where you can get delicious food with our allowance of 3 per day
Lots of different team events: we know how important team cohesion is so we regularly organize team and companywide events and activities
Mobility: On the one hand we cover the costs of underground parking so that you can get to work comfortably and stressfree by car. On the other hand we offer our employees the opportunity to lease a JobRad. This allows you to make your commute to work in an environmentally friendly and healthy way and at the same time benefit from tax advantages.
Stateoftheart equipment with Apple products: We place great value on modern and powerful technology and therefore offer our employees the latest Apple products as hardware
Founded in 2011 Gini is a wellestablished awardwinning FinTech company disrupting the banking ecommerce and insurance sector. Our most wellknown product is our Gini photo payment software assistant which is integrated into over 90 of German banking apps. With this and other products we aim to improve everyones quality of life by simplifying tedious tasks through automation. Whats special about us: We place a high value on autonomy which we integrate into our daily work life with flat hierarchies. We have four core values that are essential to our collaboration at Gini: Excellence Opportunities rather than Risks Love and Commitment & Responsibility. You can find more details about our values and the way we work together at Gini in our handbook.
We are very proud to have received several awards in recent years including Top Employer 2020 from Focus Financial Product of the Year 2022 and Top Company from kununu forand 2025.
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