Data Engineer

Hostelworld Group, the global hostel-focussed online booking platform, inspires adventurous minds to meet the world and come back with life-changing stories to tell. Our customers are not your average tourists; they crave cultural connection and unique experiences that we make possible by providing an unbeatable selection of hostels in unmissable locations – all in the palm of their hand.
It is the social nature and community feel of hostels and their environment that enable travellers to embrace journeys of discovery, adventure, and meaning. We have more than 13 million reviews across 17,800 hostels in more than 179 countries, making the brand the leading online hub for social travel. The website operates in 19 different languages and our mobile app in 13 languages.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dublin, Hostelworld has a growing, high-calibre team of 230 people within Technology, Product, Global Markets, HR, Finance & Legal, and Marketing Teams across our Dublin, London, Porto, Shanghai, and Sydney offices. Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange and Dublin Euronext.
LOCATION This role is based in Portugal. We have an office hub in Porto available for those who prefer a hybrid model where you can spend time with colleagues in-person. You will need to be able to commute to our office hub as required from time to time.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH You will play a key role in a diverse, highly-talented team managing cloud-native data engineering systems to consistently ensure the timely, accurate, and secure production and delivery of data from the Hostelworld platform. You will work closely with other technology groups and business owners to refine quality standards and processes for Data processing design, pipeline design, development, and deployment. The underlying purpose is to ensure we have an efficient, robust, secure, and performant data service to support our business growth.
WHAT YOU'LL DO You will hone and develop a wide range of technical skills in managing our data. The data engineering team requires a person who is flexible, adaptable, and able to connect a wide range of data sources and types into a focal point. It's a rewarding experience with exciting diverse work:
Maintain and apply up-to-date, specialist knowledge of database concepts including unstructured, NoSQL, and 'big data' platforms.
Design ETL frameworks and standards for specific ETL programmes and projects, working with modern and legacy data sources.
Support estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating tasks and activities.
Select and implement the most effective best practice tools and delivery processes to ensure data quality standards are maintained effectively.
Interact and liaise with global teams of software developers and business unit owners building and releasing new platform features.
Implement appropriate best practices to support rapid and efficient capacity scaling and increase the quality & velocity of Data processing.
Partner with cross-functional experts across the organisation delivering a variety of different projects ranging from consumer-facing features to backend functionality.
Support estimation of effort/activity for new projects and features, and dependencies/impacts, working closely with technical and business teams.
Build new pipelines to increase our visibility of business metrics by ingesting partner data from external API sources.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Experience & Qualifications:
Minimum 3 years of experience in Data Engineering.
Experience working in a team of dispersed Data Engineering professionals, supporting and ensuring high quality and on-time consistent delivery of Data in Cloud environments.
Deep understanding of modern Data tools and best practice standards, and the ability to make the right tool choices.
Support optimizing infrastructure costs.
Hold a strong bias towards efficiency through automation, continually improving approach, scaling processes, and implementing effective monitoring as needed.
Excellent organisation and time-management skills, able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Ability and drive to maintain a high bar of quality and have pride in doing work well to high engineering standards.
Ability to balance technical leadership with sound business judgment. Ability to handle customer escalations & multiple competing priorities.
Communicate clearly and with purpose, working effectively with team members and stakeholders across the organisation.
Experience with DevOps practices such as CICD, scrum/agile philosophy.
Experience working with Jira to manage your projects/tasks.
Competency in Python.
Data Engineering experience, ideally in Google Cloud.
SQL (preferably BigQuery, Snowflake, MariaDB).
MongoDB.
Linux shell scripting and architecture.
Docker Containers.
DBT.
Talend ETL.
Experience fetching data from external APIs.
WHAT WE OFFER Competitive salary & benefits.
Enhanced annual leave plus 3 Wellbeing Days per year.
Paid family leave (maternity, paternity, surrogacy & adoption).
Agile working (plus a Working from Abroad Policy!).
Support for your ongoing growth & development.
Inclusive people policies (sickness, menopause, compassionate and fertility leave).
A chance to give back to your local community with 5 paid volunteering days.
OUR BEHAVIOURS Grow others - We fundamentally believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone, whether it's helping them develop hard or soft skills. We want learning and growing to be part of our DNA to help make us a better team, together.
Master it - We are obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills. We rarely take things at face value; we investigate, interrogate, and always look for 'the why,' and wherever possible, we use data to find the best solution.
Collaborate - We are in it together, for the tough stuff and the celebrations too. To achieve the best results, we need expertise from all areas of the organisation, and we wholeheartedly welcome diverse thinking.
Adapt - We work fluidly, adapting to new information and the evolving environment while staying committed to our goals. Innovation and experimentation fuel our projects, and we're never afraid to pivot.
Deliver - Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity. We collaborate to deliver work at speed without dropping any of our other behaviours.
We believe in talented and diverse teams that reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences. We lay out the above requirements to guide applicants to the experiences that we believe will allow you to be successful in the role. If you don't meet them all, please consider applying if you think you can still perform the role as described.

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