Data Engineer

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming manual work that gets in the way of real work our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses invoice processing and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours erodes morale and saps innovation were on a mission to power real work with real impact.

Were trusted by more than 10000 companies worldwide including Wise On Running Breitling and Fabletics and were tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015 Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1800 people across 12 offices globally with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation control and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk were driven by our values like being an owner delivering a 7-star experience and working as one team. We value curiosity purpose and mindset not just knowledge to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries representing over 70 countries. If youre excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work wed love you on the team.

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About the Role:

We are looking for a Data Engineer to scale our Data Operations team and help us improve our Data Governance & Data Integration processes. This Roles mission will be:

• Ensure we are able to keep all data in our DWH updated and accessible for analysis

• Partner with the Data analysts to support the requirements of the company in terms of analytics reliability and efficiency

• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from different sources and integrate it in the DWH following data modeling best practices

What you will do:

• Take charge of the required data processing while ensuring sustainable and organic growth of the data model and the infrastructure

• Keep our data infrastructure up to date and working like a clock

• Integrate and model datasets from different sources

• Support our Data Analysts & BI Developers to get the right data to build awesome dashboards and complex analytical models

• Support Product and Analytics teams in defining the best approaches for data modeling

• Use data to investigate and help resolve issues in our product or processes

• Proactively suggest improvements to data reliability efficiency and quality

• Champion a healthy data culture throughout the organization

What you need:

• 3 years of relevant experience as a Data Engineer Business Intelligence Big-Data Engineer or similar role working with large-scale data systems

• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken in English

• You are a Master in SQL optimizing queries for performance scalability and ease of maintenance

• You feel comfortable querying different types of databases (PostgreSQL Redshift Snowflake) and have knowledge of different AWS services

• Youre an ace at data modeling accustomed to designing and implementing complex architectures with a constant eye on their future evolution while taking into account the needs of multiple users

• You have experience building data pipelines using Python

• You have experience integrating data from multiple sources including DBs product tracking and APIs. You get excited by seeing your jobs run like clockwork

• You have an instinct for automation

• You have the desire to work in an international environment with minimal direction and with highly engaged individuals

Bonus points for

• Experience with AWS Redshift or other distributed systems (Snowflake Big Query Hadoop Vertica Exasol etc.). Basic DBA skills

• Experience in web analytics and web tracking and event-based analytics tools

• Experience with workflow managers (Airflow Luigi etc.)

• Experience with dbt.

• Experience in queue and streaming systems (SNS Kafka Firehose)

What do we offer

• Competitive compensation including equity in the company

• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge

• Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance depending on your location

• Flexible compensation plan to help you diversify and increase the net salary

• Unforgettable Perk events including to travel to one of our hubs

• A mental health support tool for your wellbeing

• Exponential growth opportunities

Our Vision is for a world where Perk serves as the platform for human connection in-real-life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our Barcelona hub. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in-real-life to improve connectivity productivity creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer baseand we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. Were an equal opportunity employer which means youre welcome at Perk regardless of how you look where youre from or anything else that makes you well you.

How We Work

At Perk we take an IRL-first approach to work where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity productivity creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. Were an equal opportunity employer which means youre welcome at Perk regardless of how you look where youre from or anything else that makes you well you.

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All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @ or @ our verified social media channels or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment training or fees request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp Telegram or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious please do not respond. Forward it to and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.

Required Experience:

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