Senior Data Engineer, Grover
Tuesday-Thursday in office
3+ days a week in office
Technology subscription platform
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Technology subscription platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Tuesday-Thursday in office
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give consumers access to premium consumer technology at an affordable price and on a flexible schedule.
Role
Who you are
- Experience & Core Tech: 5+ years in data engineering with deep proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern ELT design patterns, ideally within dynamic tech companies
- Data Platforms & Orchestration: Hands-on production experience with modern cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and Apache Airflow
- Cloud & IaC: Proven experience designing cloud data infrastructure (ideally AWS) and provisioning scalable environments using Terraform
- Engineering Best Practices: Solid track record with Git, testing frameworks, CI/CD, proactive documentation, and reducing technical debt
- FinOps Discipline & Mentality: A strong cost-ownership mindset. Beyond standard compute sizing and storage management, you have experience in (or see the value in) building usage tracking, attributing costs to specific users or queries, and proactively staying on top of the platform's cost optimization
- Business Mindset & Collaboration: Pragmatic systems thinker who translates business requirements into technical solutions and communicates effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Communication & Language: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, which is our company language
- Nice-to-haves: Hands-on experience with dbt, Kubernetes, and Kafka
What the job involves
- Grover's Data Platform team is mid-transformation, migrating from Redshift, Tableau, and Redash to Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Airflow, and Airbyte while also moving from centralized to decentralized analytics.
- You'll report to the Data Platform Lead and take ownership of the most complex, high-volume data pipelines and automations, as well as the data infrastructure across the platform, working alongside senior Analytics Engineers and another Senior Data Engineer.
- This is a hands-on role with real influence over how Grover's data infrastructure is built for the long term
- Ingestion & Processing: Architect, scale, and maintain high-volume ingestion pipelines, including preprocessing and parsing complex payloads before landing in the warehouse
- Platform Automation & Migration: Build end-to-end automations across AWS (S3), Airflow, and the cloud data warehouse while stabilizing, documenting, and migrating legacy data flows
- Orchestration Ownership: Own and evolve Apache Airflow as a platform, driving version upgrades, configuration, and architectural best practices
- Observability & Reliability: Implement monitoring, alerting, resource tracking, and automated data quality checks, diagnosing pipeline issues at the root cause
- Performance & FinOps Ownership: Take active responsibility for the data platform's costs (e.g., Snowflake credits). You will optimize warehouse performance and build systems to track compute usage down to the individual user level, ensuring all ~30 data champions are operating efficiently and accountable for the costs they generate
- Architecture & Enablement: Serve as a senior technical voice on platform decisions and enable decentralized analytics by building a platform that serves ~30 data champions
Our take
Purchasing tech items like mobile phones and laptops can be cost-heavy and are not always affordable. People often have to plan around such purchases; the costs are unavoidable as they represent essential investments. Furthermore, the life cycle of products usually begins and ends with one user, which is not always optimised for sustainability.
Grover tackles these existing issues by offering a subscription service to tech products where customers can rent products on a rolling monthly basis. Through its flexible approach, the company aims to reach a wide target audience by increasing access to tech products as well as maximising the value of these items by reducing waste and increasing their circulation.
Originally founded in Berlin, Grover has expanded its services to America, helping it achieve a 354% Year On Year growth. In 2022, the company opened a Miami headquarters, expanded its US team, and achieved 5.9 million visitors to its website. All of this combined signals the company's ripeness for expansion, whilst an impressive $50 million VC investment awarded in 2024 will accelerate a sustainable trajectory of growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
102% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2024
$56.2m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $252.9m
Company benefits
- Fully-remote/hybrid work structure. Office? Remote? Figure out the balance that works best for you
- Online German Language Courses for all levels
- Learning budget
- Entrepreneurial responsibilities and upward career growth
- Working for a market leader
- Visit our engaging, open offices located in Berlin, Lisbon and Miami
- Diverse global team of 65+ nationalities (and counting)! Genuinely the nicest group of colleagues who will soon become friends
- Team events, Grover tech discounts, and expanding company perks
Company HQ
Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Linda Rubin
(CEO)Previously CFO at FoundersLane, worked in Country Development DACH at trivago, Exectuvie Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co and was an Analyst at Rothschild & Co.
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