Data Engineer

This is a pivotal role at Returnista that will shape our future success.

As we manage the returns process for our customers, we collect vast amounts of data. This data presents many opportunities to significantly reduce returns and increase sustainability within Ecommerce. In this role, you will be a key member of our team, responsible for building and supporting the data infrastructure that delivers critical insights and data-driven capabilities to our customers through our SaaS platform.

You will:

• Be passionate about using data to innovate and improve our service.
• Build and maintain ETL pipelines in AWS to provide data driven insights, both internally and to our customers.
• Build and maintain data services to provide data-driven product capabilities.
• Create and maintain data visualizations using AWS QuickSight or similar tools.
• Demonstrate proficiency in data privacy and security, with a strong awareness of best practices.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience with Python, SQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Expertise in AWS services, particularly with ETL pipelines, RDS, and data visualization tools like QuickSight.
• Experience in designing and delivering data solutions.
• Familiarity with best compliance and security practices.
• Experience in implementing pre-existing machine learning algorithms using organizational data

If the following statements appeal to you, maybe we're a match…

What we do:

• We work with CI/CD and other XP practices.
• We focus on the problem today, not tomorrow.
• We take pride in delivering quality.
• We work in small, frequent steps, continually getting feedback.
• We don’t constrain ourselves by convention.

What we don't do:

• We don’t use Jira.
• We don’t do scrum, sprints or estimate story points.
• We don’t build features – we deliver capabilities.
• We don’t do Gitflow – we do Trunk-based-development and CI/CD.

Our values and culture

At Returnista, our working culture is guided by four core values:

We’re on this journey together: Working at a successful startup isn’t the same every day, as we constantly grow and innovate, we face new challenges. It’s important that we embrace this journey but also positively support each other. In practice, this can range from pair programming to travelling and celebrating together.

We do it right: When you’re moving fast it can be tempting to constantly cut corners to things done. But this results in a product that is a struggle to work with and has unhappy users. We make that extra effort to be proud of what we’re building; understand the problem we’re solving, write one more test or tackle technical debt.

We are empowered to act, challenge and lead: To work effectively as a team everyone must have a voice and feel they can stand up and be counted. As a software engineer at Returnista we want you to feel empowered. That could mean proposing new ideas, fixing things without seeking permission or challenging the CEO.

We are intrepid: We want our engineers to show initiative and to innovate. Intrepid Friday’s give us the opportunity to work on things that might not ostensibly be the highest priority, but can make a big difference to our product or how we work.

What we offer

• Join a fast growing scale-up company
• Work in a positive, supportive and non-toxic environment
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Macbook Pro
• €2k annual training budget
• Annual travel budget to spend time with colleagues in other locations

Job requirements

• A degree or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in our core technology stack
• A continual learner and stay up to date with new technology, techniques and ideas.
• Understand the value of creativity and communication in software delivery
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written.