Data Engineer

About us

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver — whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items — over $200 billion worth — to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Endicia, Metapack, GlobalPost, Packlink, and Return Rabbit. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values

Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes. 

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join our team and play a key role in advancing our central data platform. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving the next level of maturity for our data infrastructure, focusing on implementing self-service capabilities and robust data governance, and enabling strategic business decisions. You will bring a problem-solving and data-oriented set of skills with deep technical knowledge of data treatment tools. What you'll find is:

• A growing business with international expansion.
• Global leaders in our sector.
• GCP Cloud Environment and data services related.
• Leading tools in the market: Composer (Apache Airflow), Dataflow(Apache Beam), Bigquery, DBT.
• A high-performance team based on software engineering best practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and self-documentation.
• We may be able to impact your decisions regarding data warehouse architecture and scalability challenges. If something is better, we want to use it.
• A company with more than 15 nationalities
• And much more!

What will you be doing?

• Work with internal technology teams to deliver key data engineering/analytics capabilities.
• Design, build, and support data-centric services, including, but not limited to, event streaming, ETL pipelines, and distributed data storage utilizing Airflow, Apache Beam, BigQuery, and DBT.
• Software engineering best practices to our data environment: testing and version control, CI/CD process in a GCP Cloud environment.
• Work with architects and technology leads to ensure a reliable, scalable, and robust architecture for our data environment. Improve, evolve, and make the company’s data warehouse scalable.
• Build and design a horizontal self-service platform to achieve good data governance.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Fluent in Spanish & English, both verbal and written. 
• Knowledge in programming languages like Python. 
• Experience with development best practices and tools.
• Experience with Streaming and Batch ingestion. 
• Experience with job orchestration tools like Apache Airflow. 
• Experience with SQL-like languages.
• Experience in data modeling and architecture with DBT or similar. 
• High degree of initiative and ability to work collaboratively.

What will make you stand out?

• Experience working with GCP data technologies(Dataflow, Composer, BigQuery).
• Experience with analytical tools like Looker.
• Experience developing data tests and data quality. Analytics capabilities and Business acumen. 
• Experience working with Business Stakeholders to generate insights.
• Experience in Data Product development.

What do we offer?

• 💸 Clear and transparent compensation plan. Salary range: 36000 € to 50000€/year. We will discuss the indicated range with you in the first recruiting call to ensure that we are on the same page. 
• 🗓️ Annual Salary Review: We are reviewing the salaries of all our teams annually in order to evaluate an increase according to individual performance and the business results.
• 📦 99% discount on your personal shipment orders via Packlink.pro
• 💙 Up to 150 €/year to match your NGO donations! We are happy to support your initiatives by duplicating the amount donated.
• 😊 Volunteer day. You can take 1 day off per year in order to participate in volunteering activities! We will love to see some pictures in our slack!
• Referral Fee 🔗 We need your support in hiring top-class talent! We offer a referral bonus of 1k-3K, depending on the complexity of the role and the hiring process.
• 👩‍⚕️We have an Employee Assistance Program with psychological assistance free of charge.
• ⚖️ Great work-life balance We offer a flexible work schedule and will do our best to adapt to your personal situation. Working in a fast-paced environment can be intense, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy your free time!
• 💜 An inclusive and upbeat work environment Leave your suit behind... we’re a t-shirt and converse kind of place! More importantly, our company culture promotes diversity and inclusion. The personality and opinions of each of our team members are important and valid, and we aim to offer all employees a safe environment where they can be themselves and thrive.
• 🌍 A cross-cultural atmosphere We are a truly international team of 20 nationalities that speak 10 languages. Our company language is English and all internal communication and company-wide meetings are in English.
• 🏟️ Company events Work hard, play hard! We do our best every day, even at our regular team-building events. 
• 📺 Internal and external training, free access to online training platforms such as Linkedin Learning
• 🏠 We are a remote-first company All team members at Auctane Spain are remote employees. You can decide if you want to work in the office 2 days a week or 3 days per quarter—it's up to you. We also cover your expenses for working from home (50€ net per month/600€ per year).
• 🌅 We have 25 days of holidays per year (23+🎂 your Birthday Take your birthday off to celebrate!+Christmas+New Year's Eve).
• 💻 Everything you need to work from home. Whether you prefer Mac, Linux, or Windows (or an additional screen or two), we set you up for success when working remotely.
• 🩳 We work from 8.00 to 15.00 every Friday in order to start the weekend earlier.
• 🏖️ Summer Schedule from Mid-July and August for you to enjoy your summer.
• 🏥 8 hours per year for attending to medical appointments 
• 👩‍⚕️ 10 hours per year to support your family members when going to the doctor)
• 📙 Personal Training Budget. Up to 2000€/year training budget (certifications, conferences attendance, etc.) to invest in your professional development. We want to help you improve your technical skills, feel involved in the product community, and develop your soft skills to lead teams and manage other stakeholders.
• 💰 Flexible Salary We work with a flexible compensation plan for transport, restaurants, and kindergarten so our employees can save on personal income tax via Cobee.
• 🗺️ Languages classes every week. Thirsty for knowledge? Learn a new language by joining our free English/Spanish/French classes. In groups of 4-5 people, you can connect and enjoy taking up a new language or improving your current skills with one of our great instructors.
• 🏐 Health and Wellness: The well-being of our team is super important to us. Choose from different options that help you focus on your health:
• Up to 42€ to cover your Gym membership or exercise classes (pilates, kick-boxing, etc.).
• We provide private health insurance, we offer a great plan courtesy of our partner Cigna.
• 👩‍⚕️We have psychological assistance vouchers free of charge.
• 🏢 Nice Office in the centre of Madrid (free drinks, snacks…)