Data Engineer, FareHarbor
Europe
Booking solutions for tour operators
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Booking solutions for tour operators
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make experiences better for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Have 5+ years experience working with a production codebase and mission-critical systems
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Have experience with Apache Airflow and DBT
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, particularly Redshift, IAM, S3
- Proficiency in infrastructure management using Terraform, familiarity with Kubernetes
- Have interest in data modeling, data access, and scalable data pipelines
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities
What the job involves
- FareHarbor, a Booking holding company, is looking for a full time Data Engineer with strong development capabilities and a focus on data-centric solutions to join our data engineering team in Amsterdam.
- The ideal candidate will be proficient in building and maintaining data pipelines, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring seamless data flow across the organization.
- We’re a quickly growing company with a robust product that tens of thousands of people rely on to run their businesses every day. As we grow, insights into our data are increasingly important in order to optimize our internal processes, inform our long-term strategy, and help our clients increase their sales
- Implement data infrastructure to serve the needs of our Reporting and Analytics teams
- Design, develop, and manage scalable data pipelines and ETL processes
- Optimize data storage and querying solutions using AWS Redshift
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Develop and automate workflows using Airflow
- Create and maintain data models and transformations with DBT
- Extract and integrate data from 3rd party APIs, understanding and adapting to different data formats and structures
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs, contributing to the development of tools and processes
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise
- Ensure reliability, scalability, data quality, integrity, and security of our data infrastructure within AWS
Our take
Most holidaygoers in the US prefer to book their activities and experiences online - but when it comes to local operators, this isn’t always possible. FareHarbor has been developing software to help digitize the booking process for these smaller businesses, and over a decade, has brought more than 5,000 of them onto the books.
Along the way, FareHarbor also built up some strong momentum in the reservation management and distribution areas of the sector, which drove up the company’s valuation - making it a prime candidate for acquisition. Whilst TripAdvisor reportedly made multiple bids, FareHarbor ultimately went to Booking Holdings, the US’ largest vendor of tour company booking software.
This puts FareHarbor in a strong position. Booking Holdings is acquiring companies at a steep rate (ten in the last ten years), and good ones too - Kayak and Venga number among them. This will help FareHarbor with customer acquisition, and insulate it somewhat from any wobbles in the hospitality sector.
Freddie
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2015
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Matt Broten
(Software Engineer)Worked in various Software Engineering roles at Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Open Systems International, Instant Automatic, and Artery- which they also co-founded.
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