Data platform engineer

Return | REMOTE | Data platform engineer | Full-time

Return (https://return.energy) is hiring a data platform engineer [1] who will work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activities are building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems and solar plants. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy.

While our ventures employ over 120 people, Return’s technical team is still small (11 people). Our platform automates processes in sales, project management, procurement, construction, customer service, and energy production and trading.

During the first two years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced data platform engineer (see [1] for a note on this term).

Your primary focus will be to allow our platforms to scale in breadth and scope without interruptions. You will also be building data pipelines or improving existing ones to ensure data availability and reliability.

Our tech stack is straightforward: dbt, GCP (mainly BigQuery), AWS, Dagster, Grafana, and Render. Most of our apps and tools are managed and deployed via Terraform. Our codebase consists of Python, Ruby (+Rails), JS, and a bit of Go. We tend to keep meetings to a minimum in order to provide at least five hours of uninterrupted coding time per day. We practice code reviews and apply automated and manual testing. The platforms are deployed multiple times per day.

Return has offices in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Munich, and Madrid. We are very much open to working remotely as long as you live in the EU. Our hiring process is swift but thorough: a brief call to get acquainted and discuss financials, followed by one or more technical interviews, and a paid visit to Amsterdam to meet the team.

The tech team members have co-founded several companies and/or have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).

[1] If you call yourself an SRE, DevOps engineer, or a backend engineer, you are also more than welcome to apply!