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Data Engineer

lastminute.com is a European leader in the online travel and leisure industry, offering a wide range of travel services including flights, hotels, and dynamic holiday packages through a portfolio of well-known brands.

lastminute.com

Employee count: 1001-5000

Spain only

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We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are passionate about using data to improve business performance, enjoy challenging projects and are skilled at data modeling, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.

The job in brief:

  • Job Title - Data Engineer
  • Working model - remote in Spain
  • Team - you will join the Data Analytics Team
  • Level- Professional
  • Location- Spain
  • Contract- Permanent - full-time (36 h/week)

What your impact will be:

  • Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines and architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Innovate: Champion new approaches and technologies, leveraging AI to optimize data processes and generate deeper insights.
  • Collaborate: Partner closely with internal and business stakeholders to understand their data needs, translating requirements into effective technical solutions.
  • Prioritize: Manage competing demands and strategically prioritize projects to deliver maximum business value.
  • Ensure Quality: Guarantee the performance, reliability, and scalability of our data systems through rigorous testing and maintenance.

Your expertise:

  • Experience: 5 years of experience as a data engineer, with a proven track record of building and maintaining production-grade data systems.
  • Cloud Expertise: Strong knowledge of SQL and hands-on experience with cloud-based Big Data platforms like Google BigQuery.
  • ETL/ELT: Expertise in data modeling and developing and maintaining data transformation pipelines using tools like dbt.
  • Orchestration: Experience with workflow management engines such as Airflow.
  • Automatization: Use Terraform/AWS CloudFormation to manage and automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud infrastructure.
  • Programming: Proficiency in at least one programming language, with a strong preference for Python.
  • Communication: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable:

  • Visualization: Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Qlik, Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
  • Extract and Process: Develop and implement solutions to scrape and extract data from various sources and transform it into a usable format.
  • Domain Knowledge: Previous experience in the travel, digital, or e-commerce industries.
  • Analytical Skills: A strong understanding of data analysis principles and how to apply them to improve business outcomes.

Perks of working with us:

How we work together:

  • An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
  • Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
  • Flexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm
  • Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations

How we learn together:

  • Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.
  • Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content

Other perks:

  • 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
  • Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
  • Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
  • We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.

Wish you were here? We do, too!

Selection process steps*:

  • HR interview
  • 1st Manager Interview (30 minutes)
  • 2nd Manager Interview + Technical Test (1 hour)
  • Offer extended
    (*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)

Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.

At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.

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5 years minimum

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About lastminute.com

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We are lastminute.com, a trailblazer in the online travel and leisure industry. Our journey began in 1998, born from the idea of offering spontaneous holiday deals online. Founded by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman, we were at the forefront of the UK's internet boom. Since then, we've grown into a European Travel-Tech leader with a mission to simplify, personalize, and enhance the travel experience for millions. We operate a portfolio of well-known brands, including Volagratis, Rumbo, Bravofly, Jetcost, and Hotelscan, alongside our iconic lastminute.com brand. This allows us to cater to the diverse needs of travelers across their entire holiday journey, whether they're looking for a flight, a hotel, a dynamic holiday package, or a cruise.

Our core strength lies in our technology. We've developed a proprietary Dynamic Holiday Packaging engine that provides our customers with unlimited, real-time travel combinations. This not only offers incredible choice but also ensures additional customer protection, as we are one of the few fully licensed European tour operators. We're a team of over 1,700 passionate 'Pink People' from more than 50 nationalities, spread across 16+ countries. We believe that technology can be a powerful force for good, and we're committed to making our business as sustainable as possible while connecting with global communities. Our websites and mobile apps are available in 17 languages across 40 countries, reaching millions of unique users every month. We are dedicated to helping people create memories that matter, by making travel simpler, more personal, and more accessible through our innovative technology and vast inventory of travel solutions.

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lastminute.com

Company size

1001-5000 employees

Founded in

1998

Chief executive officer

Alessandro Petazzi

Employees live in

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