Country Analytics - Junior Data Engineer

Position: Junior Data Engineer

Department: Enterprise Reporting

Reports to: Steven Rutter

Location: Amsterdam

Work Model: 3 days a week from our Amsterdam office & 2 days working from home

Full time / Part time role: Full time, 1 year FTC

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. 

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

As a Junior Data Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com, you will help build and scale data & analytics solutions that power our local markets and global leadership with world-class analytics tools. Working alongside data analysts, analytics engineers, and business stakeholders, you will play a key role in developing reliable data pipelines and shaping our global analytics landscape.

We are building the next generation of our data platform and are looking for a motivated junior engineer who can swim fast, react, and adapt. If you are up to date with modern data technologies, have a get-things-done attitude, and want to learn from a world-class team—we are looking for you!

• Pipeline Development: Building, maintaining, and optimizing scalable, high-performing data pipelines using dbt, SQL, and modern cloud technologies.
• Collaboration: Partnering directly with data analysts and business leads to understand domain requirements and turn raw transactional data into structured, actionable insights.
• Data Quality & Governance: Implementing data quality checks, monitoring pipeline health, and applying data management best practices to ensure high reliability across our global platform.
• Automation & Efficiency: Creating clear documentation, standardizing data modeling workflows, and maintaining clean codebases for long-term scalability.
• Tech Exploration: Continuously exploring and integrating new technologies, modern stack tooling, and AI solutions to optimize reporting workflows and improve overall data efficiency.
• Agile Teamwork: Taking a proactive approach to your work and participating actively in global Agile teams (sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster, and a desire to optimise workflows for stability and speed.

• Hands-on Mindset: A strong drive to take ownership of projects, debug complex data issues, and continuously learn new techniques.
• A sense of ownership and a proactive approach, contributing to the team’s success by full task ownership from inception to delivery
• Core Data Engineering Principles: Solid foundational knowledge of relational databases, data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling (e.g., dimensional modeling).
• Strong SQL Skills: Proficiency in writing, optimizing, and debugging complex SQL queries.
• Tech Curiosity: An innovative, exploratory mindset with an interest in leveraging modern data engineering tooling, automation, and AI solutions to solve data problems.
• Collaboration & Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic experience with data visualization platforms such as Tableau.
• Hands-on experience or coursework with dbt.
• Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform / GCP, BigQuery, or similar cloud data warehouses).
• Familiarity with Python or version control systems (e.g., Git and GitHub/GitLab).

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. 

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. 

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.  

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day. 

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.

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