Data Engineer

ABOUT US

Hostelworld Group PLC is a groundbreaking social network powered OTA focused on the hostel market with a clear mission to help travellers find people to hang out with.

Founded in 1999 were a wellknown trusted brand with 240 teammates across 11 countries; hostel partners in 180 countries; and a strong commitment to building a better world in all that we do.

In particular our focus in the last few years has been on improving the sustainability of the hostelling industry through our membership of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC); our active involvement in the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI); our partnerships with Bureau Veritas to establish emissions benchmarks for the hostelling industry; and our recent partnership with the South Pole to offset all our greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 and 2022. You can read more about our story here: Hostelworld site.

Hostelworld is listed on the London Stock Exchange Dublin Euronext and is an Investors in Diversity accredited employer.

LOCATION

This role is based in Portugal. We have a coworking space in Porto for those who prefer a hybrid model where you can spend time with colleagues inperson. If necessary the role can be remote from anywherewithin Portugal coming together in Portofor team meetings as needed.

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

You will play a key role in a diverse highlytalented team managing cloudnative data engineering systems to consistently ensure the timely accurate and secure production and delivery of data from the Hostelworld platform.

You will work closely with other technology groups and business owners to refine quality standards and processes for Data processing design pipeline design development and deployment. The underlying purpose is to ensure we have an efficient robust secure and performant data service to support our business growth.

WHAT YOULL DO

You will hone and develop a wide range of technical skills in managing our data. The data engineering team require a person who is flexible adaptable and able to connect a wide range of data sources and types into a focal point. Its a rewarding experience with exciting diverse work:

• Maintain and apply up to date specialist knowledge of database concepts including unstructured NoSQL and big data platforms

• Design ETL frameworks and standards for specific ETL programmes and projects working with modern and legacy data sources

• Support estimating prioritizing planning and coordinating tasks and activities

• Select and implement the most effective best practice tools and delivery processes to ensure data quality standards are maintained effectively

• Interact and liaise with global teams of software developers and business unit owners building and releasing new platform features

• Implement appropriate best practices to support rapid and efficient capacity scaling and increase the quality & velocity of Data processing

• Partner with cross functional experts across the organisation delivering a variety of different projects ranging from consumer facing features to backend functionality

• Support estimation of effort/activity for new projects and features and dependencies/impacts working closely with technical and business teams

• Build new pipelines to increase our visibility of business metrics by ingesting partner data from external API sources

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

Experience & Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Experience working in a team of dispersed Data Engineering professionals supporting and ensuring high quality and ontime consistent delivery of Data in Cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of modern Data tools and best practice standards and the ability to make the right tool choices.
• Support optimizing infrastructure costs.
• Hold a strong bias towards efficiency through automation continually improving approach scaling processes and implementing effective monitoring as needed.
• Excellent organisation and timemanagement skills able to work in a dynamic and fastpaced environment.
  
• Ability and drive to maintain a high bar of quality and have pride in doing work well to high engineering standards.
• Ability to balance technical leadership with sound business judgment. Ability to handle customer escalations & multiple competing priorities.
• Communicate clearly and with purpose working effectively with team members and stakeholders across the organisation.
• Experience withDev Ops practices such as CICD scrum / agile philosophy.
• Experience working with Jira to manage your projects / tasks.

EssentialSkills:

• Competency in Python
• Data Engineering experience ideally in Google Cloud
• SQL (preferably BigQuery Snowflake MariaDB)

Desirable Skills:

• MongoDB
• Apache Airflow
• Linux shell scripting and architecture
• Docker Containers
• DBT
• Talend ETL
• Experience fetching data from external APIs

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & benefits
• 25 Days Annual Leave plus 3 Wellbeing Days per year
• Paid family leave (maternity paternity surrogacy & adoption)
• Agile working (plus a Working from Abroad Policy!)
• Support for your ongoing growth & development
• Inclusive people policies (sickness menopause compassionate and fertility leave)
• A chance to give back to your local community with 5 paid volunteering days

OUR BEHAVIOURS

• Grow others We fundamentally believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone whether its helping them develop hard or soft skills. We want learning and growing to be part of our DNA to help makes us a better team together.
• Master it We are obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills. We rarely take things at face value; we investigate interrogate and always look for the why and wherever possible we use data to find the best solution.
• Collaborate We are in it together for the tough stuff and the celebrations too. To achieve the best results we need expertise from all areas of the organisation and we wholeheartedly welcome diverse thinking.
• Adapt We work fluidly adapting to new information and the evolving environment while staying committed to our goals. Innovation and experimentation fuel our projects and were never afraid to pivot.
• Deliver Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity. We collaborate to deliver work at speed without dropping any of our other behaviours.

Our people are key to our success. Our talented and diverse teams reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you dont have to meet all the requirements listed above to apply for this role.