Senior Data Engineer, TheFork
+ Bonus
2 days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation platform
Open for applications
Online restaurant reservation platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Bonus
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's favourite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 6 years of data engineering experience, including significant exposure to production-grade data platforms and cross-team leadership
- Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud lakehouse in production-grade environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, …)
- Strong expertise in analytical data modeling (including medallion architecture) and safe schema evolution
- Proven experience designing scalable, incremental ELT pipelines
- Strong understanding of MPP systems and distributed data processing principles
- Experience optimizing query performance and compute cost in cloud data warehouses
- Cost-aware design mindset
- Advanced proven experience with Airflow, including scalable DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling strategies
- Strong experience designing and operating production-grade ELT pipelines using modern integration tools (e.g. Airbyte or similar) or custom ingestion frameworks
- Experience designing self-service data platform capabilities is a strong plus
- Strong experience with AWS-based data architectures (S3, IAM, networking fundamentals)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows
- Understanding of security-by-design principles in cloud data environments
- Experience implementing data quality frameworks, data contracts, and validation strategies
- Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage tracking, and monitoring practices
- Experience embedding observability and reliability into pipelines (alerting, SLOs, incident response mindset)
- Lead initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing to production rollout, with high autonomy
- Structure complex technical problems into actionable plans and manage cross-team dependencies
- Make informed architectural trade-offs balancing scalability, cost, reliability, and time-to-market
- Take ownership of platform stability and continuously improve operational excellence
- Mentor and help other engineers grow through technical guidance and feedback
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Core Data team as we transform TheFork’s data capabilities through the implementation of a modern, self-service Data Platform (DPaaS)
- In this role, you will design and build end-to-end data pipelines and contribute to evolving a platform that enables domain teams to autonomously produce and consume trusted data products
- You will apply strong software engineering principles to data engineering, collaborate closely with platform stakeholders, and support the shift from a centralized BI model to a federated, domain-oriented data ecosystem
- Design and implement high-quality, production-ready data pipelines following software engineering best practices (version control, CI/CD, testing, observability)
- Build data collection, ingestion, validation, and export pipelines for various sources using modern data stack tools
- Contribute to the refactoring of existing orchestration design in Airflow to support scalability and maintainability
- Contribute to technical POCs to evaluate new technologies and architectural approaches for the platform
- Collaborate with Architects, Staff Engineers, and the Engineering Manager to validate and evolve the target data architecture
- Implement data contracts and quality controls to ensure data products meet defined SLOs
- Apply data modelling best practices including medallion architecture to create trusted, reusable data assets
- Support the implementation of domain ownership models and single sources of truth per capability
- Ensure data lineage, observability, and metadata management are embedded in all pipelines
- Contribute to building a strong developer experience (DevEx) to enable engineering teams to adopt self-service data capabilities
- Work closely with DataOps to leverage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Collaborate with BI and analytics engineering teams, who are the primary users of the Data Platform
- Support engineering teams in onboarding new data use cases onto the platform
- Build strong cross-team relationships to facilitate adoption and continuous improvement of the platform
- You will report directly to the Senior Data Engineering Manager and work in close collaboration with:
- DataOps team: who own the Data Platform infrastructure
- Architects: to ensure technical decisions align with enterprise architecture
- BI teams, Engineering teams and Data Science teams: who are the main consumers of the platform
Our take
Aiding the digitisation of the hospitality industry, TheFork offers users a seamless way to find restaurants they will enjoy, read user reviews, check real-time availability and make instant online reservations. It also provides restaurants with TheFork Manager, a software solution designed to optimise reservation management and streamline operations,
A TripAdvisor company, TheFork has made significant contributions to the global dining industry. It has partnered with 55,000 restaurants, achieved over 30 million app downloads, and attracted millions of users. Its software helps restaurants improve their service, which is great for diners too, and boost revenue by making their operations more efficient.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2022, TheFork has firmly cemented itself as a top player in the space. It is able to serve restaurants of any size, including small and family-run restaurants, supporting them as the industry becomes more complex. On top of this, it has launched AI-powered search to help diners find their next restaurant in an intuitive and personalised way.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)
- Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to wrok fully remotely)
- Lunch vouchers available 3 working days per week
- Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc
- Continuous learning and development programs
- Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey
- Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)
- Health insurance
- Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Attractive pension plans
- Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area
- Team building events
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
Leadership
Almir Ambeskovic
(CEO)Prior to being appointed as CEO, they were Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TheFork. They have also directly led several countries as General Manager at TheFork since 2015.
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