Senior Data Engineer

In a nutshell

As a Data Engineer at Picnic, you are responsible for translating business needs into successful technical designs. You’ll work with large data sets, discover new insights and business opportunities, and promote business intelligence. From route planning to the delivery of groceries to analyzing supply chains, your work ensures that each level of our operation is supported, adjusted, and predicted with data.

It’s a role with plenty of freedom: think you've spotted a way to ensure our large fleet of electric vehicles is used in the most efficient way? Go ahead and test, evaluate, and evolve your ideas alongside our Distribution team. More interested in customer behavior? Work on in-app analytics to ensure our mobile store remains smooth, speedy, and robust.

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Tricks of the trade

• Ownership: Participate in the whole process from gathering requirements to visualizing results
• Stakeholder management: Collaborate with domain experts, analysts, and backend engineers to solve data challenges
• Engineering: Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines while applying data modeling techniques, to contribute to a robust data platform
• Software development: Keeping things automated and simple, in order to increase adoption by data engineers, machine learning engineers, and analysts
• Decision making: Be pragmatic while delivering high-quality implementations
• Our Tech: SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake,Tableau, Argo, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Meltano

We’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Around 5 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or Infrastructure
• Experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with Python or other programming languages
• Experience with infrastructure technologies (e.g. schedulers, Docker, K8s)
• You’re a great communicator who can explain and present technical topics to a varied audience
• Fluent in English (Dutch not required)

Picnic Perks

✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

💡 Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

🍎 You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

🚴🏽 Stay healthy

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.

There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!

🔋 Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries