Lead Data Engineer (f/m/d)

About us

Data is transforming the world. It changes traditional businesses and enables innovation which helps create better products, services and customer experiences. At adsquare, we created a neutral and transparent marketplace to enable companies make better marketing decisions that result into more relevant customer engagement. Our real-time platform brings together buyers and sellers of data in a fair, secure and privacy-friendly way. We empower our partners and clients with sophisticated, yet easy to use self-service instruments, putting them in control and ensuring full transparency.


Our platform processes billions of data points, adds a layer of intelligence and helps making data actionable. To achieve this, we gathered international talent sharing the same vision and passion for cutting-edge technology. Founded in 2012, adsquare is a global company with headquarters in Berlin and offices in London, Paris, New York, Madrid and Milan.


Join our mission and have a real impact on the digital marketing landscape.



Your Mission

As a Lead Data Engineer at Adsquare, you are mentoring and leading a team, which is responsible for building our massively scalable data infrastructure and smart data products. You are coaching your team members and together with our product team you will shape the future of Adsquare’s data products.

In this role you will:

  • build an appreciative and trustworthy connection with each of your team members, who are data and cloud enthusiasts just like you

  • design, build, and standardise privacy-first big data architectures, large scale data pipelines, and advanced analytics solutions in AWS

  • successfully partner up with our Product and Ops teams to deliver the data required to fuel our products

  • review existing data applications and architecture, identify and implement improvements, automate and optimising data delivery for even greater scalability and reliability

  • build a self organized cross-functional agile team with high level of autonomy

Your Profile

  • You have significant experience with Python and Java or a other JVM language

  • Proficiency in NoSQL and SQL databases and in high-throughput data-related architecture and technologies (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, MongoDB, AWS Batch, AWS Glue)

  • You are proficient in Apache Spark

  • Experience working cross-functional agile teams

  • Excellent communication skills and willingness to mentor your team

  • A data visionary with a hands-on mentality

  • Proven track record of delivering data science projects from prototype to value generating product

  • Team Lead experience is a plus - otherwise we are happy to get you there

Our Software Stack

AWS (Batch, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ACP), Terraform, MongoDB, Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes, On-Premise Hadoop, Scylla, Jira, GitLab, Miro…

Why us ?

We are a highly motivated and skilled team, where everyone’s role has a real impact on the company’s growth. Success and fun are combined in a great company culture with people from all over the world, that creates a melting pot of individuals with more than 20 different Nationalities!

Our headquarters is based in the startup centre of Berlin-Mitte but as a fast-growing international startup we have offices from New York to Sydney. Sounds Interesting? Pay them a visit! All our employees  can go and check out our international offices and  work from there one week per year.
 
We equip you with the latest hardware and provide you with all the tools you need to thrive, including a flexible home office setup policy, to ease working conditions during these crazy times as well as, (hopefully soon to come!) the post-pandemic era.

On top of a competitive remuneration package, we got you covered with more benefits such as a personal education and conference budget to pursue your professional goals and to encourage your growth with us, because for us, development matters! Additionally, we offer you a  unique onboarding merch box, regular team lunches, annual company offsites, Urban Sports membership, BVG job ticket, JobRad bike leasing and more!