Portugal, Portugal
May 7, 2024
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WELCOME TO OLX
At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.
We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otomoto, Property24.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.
Become a part of an agile team of data specialists taking care of massive amounts of data and groundbreaking technologies. Your work will be driving and empowering efficient and successful decentralized domain data ownership and data consumption, for example around car pricing intelligence or deliveries. When needed, you can participate in the evolution and optimization of our European data stack helping domains to ingest, process, and consume data across the company.
While being part of a central team of data engineers across Lisbon, Berlin, and Poznan, you will be embedded in cross-functional packs. You will work closely with product managers, software engineers, product analysts, data scientists, and regional business partners to identify and design new data projects and guide them through successful delivery and validation from end to end.
What You Will Be Doing
At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.
OLX (OLX consists of OLX Global B.V. and its affiliated companies) will handle your personal data with care and will process your personal data to assess your fit for the position you are applying for. You can give your consent (optional) to allow us to store your data for up to 12 months after the application process. So that in case you are not fit for the role at stake we can consider you for other suitable roles.
Please refer to our Privacy Statement to find out more about how your application data will be processed.
At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.
We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otomoto, Property24.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.
Become a part of an agile team of data specialists taking care of massive amounts of data and groundbreaking technologies. Your work will be driving and empowering efficient and successful decentralized domain data ownership and data consumption, for example around car pricing intelligence or deliveries. When needed, you can participate in the evolution and optimization of our European data stack helping domains to ingest, process, and consume data across the company.
While being part of a central team of data engineers across Lisbon, Berlin, and Poznan, you will be embedded in cross-functional packs. You will work closely with product managers, software engineers, product analysts, data scientists, and regional business partners to identify and design new data projects and guide them through successful delivery and validation from end to end.
What You Will Be Doing
- Enable efficient consumption of domain data as a product by delivering and promoting strategically designed actionable datasets and data models
- Build, maintain, and improve rock-solid data pipelines using a broad range of technologies like AWS Redshift, Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), Spark, Airflow, and Kinesis streaming
- Support teams without data engineers with building decentralized data solutions and product integrations, for example around DynamoDB.
- Follow and promote Data Mesh principles around decentralized data ownership and ‘data as a product’
- Act as a data ambassador promoting the value of data and our data platform among engineering teams and enabling cooperation
- Continuously look for opportunities to integrate data into our end products
- Cooperate with product teams to streamline source data so that data is cleaner earlier in the process
- Enforce privacy and security standards (privacy by design)
- Increase data literacy of the engineering organization by hosting training and mentoring other engineers (both less experienced data engineers and software engineers)
- +1 year experience building complex data pipelines and working with both technical and business stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think creatively; highly driven and self-motivated
- Good SQL language regardless of the underlying data technology. Writes efficient, easy-to-read, and crisp SQL code
- Relevant experience with designing for scale and data growth in terms of storage and performance
- Potential to build rock-solid Python applications - writes understandable and maintainable code
- Relevant experience with cloud data technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure Cloud), such as Redshift, Athena, Spark
- Knowledge and curiosity about other big data technologies and tools
- Relevant experience with analytics and defining metrics.
- Relevant experience with measuring data quality
- Good communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal proficiency in English
- Permanent contract
- Competitive salary + annual bonus up to 10% of your annual gross salary
- Work with and impact all OLX websites
- Free access to Udemy courses
- Health insurance and life insurance
- 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our office in Lisbon)
At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.
OLX (OLX consists of OLX Global B.V. and its affiliated companies) will handle your personal data with care and will process your personal data to assess your fit for the position you are applying for. You can give your consent (optional) to allow us to store your data for up to 12 months after the application process. So that in case you are not fit for the role at stake we can consider you for other suitable roles.
Please refer to our Privacy Statement to find out more about how your application data will be processed.
