Data Engineer(SaaS)

Reports To

The Data Engineer will report to the Head of Product.

Your role

The mission of RoomRaccoon's Data Engineer is to help RoomRaccoon become the most adopted hotel management system in the world, by analysing company information and supporting Team Product, Sales, and Marketing with insights based on this. Our Data Engineer will be using large data sets to find opportunities for product and process optimisation and use models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action. This is required to drive business results. They will make use of data analysis methods, using a variety of data tools to build and implement models. Creating algorithms and running simulations is also a part of this position.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

You will be accountable for

• Data queries, analysis and modeling
• Documenting and presenting your findings
• Liaising with different departments to ensure accurate implementation of the models
  
  
  

Tasks

• Working with our departments throughout the organisation to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Analyse and query data from company databases to drive optimisation and improvement of product development
• Pull data for our Raccoons on a daily basis on request
• Assist with capturing external data operating our crawlers and provide quality assurance on all real-time reports and boards that we operate on
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data-gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimise our customers journey and experience, revenue generation, and other business outcomes.
• Develop company A/B testing framework and test model quality.
• Coordinate with different departments to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.
  
  
  

Requirements

Our perfect fit has/is

• Full proficiency in SQL
• Experience in PHP
• Skilled in mathematics and not afraid of the Linux command line
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
• Experience using statistical computer languages such as PHP to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
• Experience working with and creating data architectures.
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across departments
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• We’re looking for someone with 3-5 years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models
• A degree or higher qualification in: Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field, and is familiar with: coding knowledge and experience with PHP and vuejs
  
  
  

Shares our core values:

• 🥇 ACCOUNTABILITY
• 🔁 BEAT YESTERDAY
• ⏩ CLOCK SPEED
• 🤝 DEAL’S A DEAL
• 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 EMPOWER ANOTHER
  
  
  

Benefits

• Working in a vibrant international fast-growing company
• Unlimited learning & growth potential
• Your ideas and performance making a big difference in our organisation and the global hotel industry
• Work hard, Play hard mentality. We love celebrating successes together!
• Employee Equity Scheme
• Annual RoomRaccoon Hotel Experience
• Friday lunches are on us
• Annual salary increases
• Training & Development opportunities
  
  
  

Your progression:

After successfully achieving the points needed on your role based progression plan and once you are ready for the next step, the Senior Data Engineer position will be yours!