Python Data Engineer

Join Our Team as a Python Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Python Data Engineer to join our expanding team and strengthen the platform that powers customer insights. As part of our Product & Tech team, you design, build and automate high-quality data ingestion solutions that keep fresh, trusted data flowing from an ever-growing range of sources.

What you will be doing

As Python Data Engineer you are co-responsible for the front door of our central data platform:

• Ingest structured & unstructured data via robust Python scrapers and API connectors.
• Orchestrate the early ELT steps validation, normalization, schema mapping so downstream teams start with trustworthy tables.
• Embed AI (Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services) to auto-classify, summarize and deduplicate news, documents and web content.
• Monitor & debug: Spot anomalies fast with rich logging, metrics and alerting; jump into IDE-level debugging when things break.
• Improve the craft: champion code reviews, test coverage and clean architecture; leave every module better than you found it.

Projects and challenges you’ll work on:

Projects we are taking on in the upcoming months and you will be part of:

• Migrate legacy scrapers to Azure Functions with retry logic, exponential back-off and structured logs
• AI-powered news crawler to integrate an LLM relevance-tagger and summary generator.
• Document-to-insight pipeline to extract, vectorize and summarize PDF/Office files at scale.

Ongoing work you will contribute to:

• Build & maintain Python ingestion jobs and first-step ELT pipelines.
• Deploy and observe services through Azure DevOps, Docker and GitHub.
• Keep our data platform reliable, scalable and secure.
• Follow data-engineering best practices for design, testing and documentation.

Tech stack

Daily tools:

• Python
• Git (GitHub / Azure Repos)
• Docker
• SQL (SQL Server Management Studio / Azure Data Studio)

You’ll also touch:

• Azure Functions & Logic Apps
• Azure DevOps
• Azure AI Services (Open AI)
• Selenium, Pandas and NumPy

Haven’t used every tool yet? If you’ve mastered similar tech and love learning, we’ll back you.

Your Talent

• 2-4 years hands-on software development, ideally in Python, using modern IDEs (PyCharm, VS Code).
• Solid track record building and maintaining production codebases.
• Git power-user: branching, rebasing, PR reviews and CI checks are second nature.
• Strong programmer with instinctive grasp of code structure, patterns and architecture.
• Enjoy code-review and debugging exercises.
• Comfortable with datasets, data-quality rules, formats and transformations.
• Pluses: Selenium, Pandas, NumPy, web scraping, software engineering, SQL optimization, Azure or another cloud platform.

If you're passionate about joining us but don't meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply. We're excited to see how your unique skills might contribute to our team at A-INSIGHTS.

Who you'll be working with:

• Wilco – Technical Lead Platform
• Martijn – Head of Product & Tech
• Mingdong – Data Engineer

What we offer:

• Competitive salary € 47 500 – € 57 500 annually, including 8 % holiday allowance.
• Performance bonus of up to 10% of your gross salary.
• Hybrid work setup with 2-5 days in the office per week.
• Growth plan to support your growing as an individual in knowledge and soft skills.
• The possibility of working abroad for a few weeks once a year.
• A team of experienced developers on different levels to support you.
• Regular company events like dinners, BBQs, boat trips, and padel tournaments, fostering a vibrant team culture.

A-INSIGHTS

We enable the world’s biggest food companies—McCain, Royal FrieslandCampina, Ahold Delhaize, Puratos, Savencia and more—to save time, deepen insights and seamlessly share knowledge. With a strong product, a clear mission and rapid growth ahead, there’s never been a better time to join us.

Our Amsterdam team is a vibrant mix of 15+ nationalities who blend curiosity with craft (and occasionally turn each other into works of art).

Ready to be our next secret ingredient?