Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Since launching the world’s first portable wood-pellet pizza oven in 2012, Ooni has grown into an award-winning, multinational company with a product range loved by pizza makers all over the globe. Our mission has always been to design innovative products that spark joy in our customers, and whilst we’re incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished so far - we’re only just getting started.
Ooni is gearing up for our busiest time of year, and we need a heavy-hitting Data Engineer and Tracking Lead to join us for a 6-month contract to ensure our data foundation is solid.
You will be the internal technical lead, laying the foundations for the end-to-end health of our data, from the moment a user clicks on our website to the final output in our BI tooling - ensuring we are capturing and storing data optimally and compliantly.
This is a "Founding Engineer" style role - and while you will be the only data engineer internally, you won't be working in a vacuum - you will collaborate daily with our tight-knit internal data and analytics team, consisting of two Data Analysts, an FP&A Manager, and a Product Manager, as well as being the technical lead for our long standing external agency of 4 data engineers. Alongside this data and analytics group, you will have a tight network of data-savvy stakeholders which you will collaborate with on each project.
This is a hybrid 6 month fixed-term contract, with 2 days per week in our office in Edinburgh.
1. Agency Technical Leadership
Act as the primary technical reviewer and internal authority for our external agency (4 engineers).
Advise on architectural standards for code quality, dbt modelling, and documentation.
Streamline the hand-off process between agency development and internal business requirements.
2. Quality Assurance
Audit and "stress-test" our end-to-end data flow to ensure stability during high-traffic periods.
Implement automated data quality tests to catch anomalies in real-time before they impact business reporting.
Work with the wider team to set up proactive monitoring for website tracking to identify broken data layers or tag fires.
3. Data Infrastructure & Cost Optimisation
Work with our external agency to maintain and optimise our dbt project, ensuring models are performant and the data dictionary is clear.
Manage Fivetran ETL processes and advise on cost-optimisation during high-volume periods.
Ensure all tracking and storage protocols remain strictly GDPR compliant.
The Stack: Advanced proficiency in SQL and BigQuery (GCP). You must have deep experience with dbt.
Tracking Mastery: Deep understanding of Google Tag Manager (GTM) and GA4 architecture; you understand how a website change impacts downstream data.
Technical Breadth: Proficiency in Python for scripting and a solid grasp of Git/GitHub workflows.
Pragmatic Oversight: Ability to manage an external team, set high standards, and balance engineering rigour with business needs.
Desirable Skills & ExperienceBonus Qualifications
Experience with using AI tooling (such as Claude) to help non-technical stakeholders self-serve and get answers to their data questions.
Why Ooni?
When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here.
Skills Required
- Advanced proficiency in SQL
- Advanced proficiency in BigQuery on GCP
- Deep experience with dbt
- Deep understanding of Google Tag Manager and GA4 architecture
- Proficiency in Python for scripting
- Solid understanding of Git and GitHub workflows
- Ability to manage an external engineering team and set technical standards
- Experience using AI tooling such as Claude to help non-technical stakeholders self-serve data answers
Ooni Pizza Ovens Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ooni Pizza Ovens and has not been reviewed or approved by Ooni Pizza Ovens.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as unusually generous, including 35 days of paid holiday and a five-week sabbatical after five years of service. Volunteer days are also included, reinforcing a broad time-off offering beyond standard PTO.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision coverage characterized as fully covered for employees in some U.S. listings. Mental-health support and EAP-style services are also framed as part of the overall health and wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are presented as competitive, including a 401(k) with a 6% company match for U.S. roles and references to enhanced pension contributions in other regions. This mix suggests deliberate support for long-term financial benefits alongside immediate perks.
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What We Do
Why we do what we do? Because everyone deserves great pizza, that’s why. It’s a simple idea, but a noble cause that’s behind everything we do at Ooni. We’re working our wee socks off and won’t rest until there’s an Ooni pizza oven in the backyard of every person everywhere. What we do: We design, make and sell AMAZING pizza ovens. They’re so AMAZING that lower-case adjectives just don’t do them justice. Right now, we sell our pizza ovens all over the world. Hot and fast is how you cook truly great pizza, and- all of our models get hot as hell (that’s 932°F/500°C last time we checked) and cook incredible pizza in only 60 seconds. Before Ooni, if you wanted pizza that good, you had to go to a restaurant or spend thousands on a traditional pizza oven. Not anymore, friends. Work with us: We have a 300-plus-strong multi-national team who are busy designing, selling, branding, internet-ing, events-ing, supporting, marketing, welding, shipping, financing, photographing and dancing (probably) to make magic happen. Ooni is a beautiful machine that grows and learns every day, and it’s really freaking amazing to be a part of it all.
Why Work With Us
Our Impact: We care about building a business for good and paying it forward, too. We’re a kind business filled with kind people. We donate 1% of every sale to carefully chosen social and environmental causes, and we’re a member of 1% for the Planet, who can totally vouch for us. Go to YouTube and search “We are Ooni.” for more.
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