Senior Data Engineer – Data Foundation, Analytics
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Senior Data Engineer building CUJU’s data foundation for AI-powered football talent scouting. Developing AWS pipelines, analytics models, and scalable data services.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement core data models for users, events, and performance
- Design and operate robust, production-grade data pipelines
- Establish a single source of truth for key business and product metrics
- Structure data for business and product analysis, including retention, funnels, and activation
- Build and deploy data services and jobs on AWS, including S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Glue, Athena, and Redshift
- Make pragmatic decisions about data storage, processing, and access
- Evaluate and introduce tools such as BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks where valuable
- Ensure the architecture scales with product, AI, and data growth without overengineering
- Optimize pipelines for scalability, cost efficiency, and performance
- Write clean, maintainable, well-structured Python code following software engineering best practices
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, AI, and Business teams
- Build CUJU’s technical data-platform foundation
- Enable scalable, reliable, production-ready analytics across the company
- Shape how data is ingested, processed, and used in products
- Influence player insights, product features, and long-term data strategy
Requirements:
- 5–7+ years of professional experience in data-heavy roles (data engineering, ML engineering, or similar)
- Strong programming skills in Python, including clean architecture, testing, and modular design
- Solid SQL skills and experience designing analytical schemas
- Hands-on experience building production data pipelines and services
- Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native data architectures
- Familiarity with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and deployments
- Comfortable working with imperfect, real-world data and evolving requirements
- Experience working in fast-paced or early-stage environments
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and international teams
- Passion for sports, performance analytics, and leveraging data for real-world impact
- Germany-based work location
- No visa support is provided
Benefits:
- Be a founding member of a strategic new Data team
- Help build something that transforms the world of sports
- Shape CUJU’s future and influence our growth, product strategy, and innovation
- Work with international clubs, partners, athletes, and influencers
- Creative freedom and agility: take ownership, shape processes, and benefit from fast decisions
- Individual development opportunities
- Masterplan learning platform
- Wellpass access to a broad network of fitness, sports, and wellness partners
- 30 days’ vacation
- Competitive compensation
- Corporate Benefits



















