Senior Data Engineer

About the project
We're recruiting for a project, where the team turns social media data (TikTok, Reddit and other platforms) into trend signals that feed the company's products. You'll join a small, senior data team. Your work is the data layer: pipelines, models, signal quality and new data sources. The dashboard UI is built by another team.

What you'll do

• Extract, clean and model large social media datasets (posts, hashtags, engagement) from TikTok and other platforms

• Build and maintain dbt models and data pipelines, with automated tests for data quality

• Prototype pipelines and metrics for new data sources (starting with Reddit) and check whether they're useful

• Help map trend signals to new business categories (taxonomy, categorisation, validation)

• Work independently on scoped deliverables, document your work in Jira and write clean, reusable code

• Build quick prototypes to validate approaches with stakeholders

What we're looking for

• 2+ years in a data engineering, analytics engineering or technical data analyst role (5+ years for Senior)

• Hands-on, commercial experience with dbt. You've built and tested models yourself, not just read about it

• Strong SQL: window functions, CTEs, deduplication, incremental logic

• Strong Python for data work: API extraction, data cleaning, pipeline scripting

• Experience with a cloud data warehouse. Snowflake is preferred; BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks or similar is fine for Mid

• Git in everyday work

• Comfortable working autonomously with limited onboarding

• Good English, as the whole team communicates in English

• You use AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code etc.) and take full ownership of the output

Nice to have

• Experience with social media or web data (TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, X) or public APIs

• Airflow or another orchestrator

• Data Vault modelling

• Trend or signal analysis: growth metrics, anomaly and bot detection, sentiment

What we offer

• B2B contract, fully remote

• A data-heavy project with real product impact and a modern stack

• A small team with direct access to the Head of Data

• Quick recruitment process: a short call with us, a technical interview (dbt, SQL, Python) and a final interview with the project lead