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