Data Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Kafka, AWS, Design, DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Dataflow, Kubernetes-K8s, Python Programming, Snowflake

Job Description

At OTA Insight, we’re helping the hospitality industry with our BI solution to visualise and leverage its data in the most simple way so that they can make better revenue, distribution and marketing decisions.

Last year was our 10 year anniversary and it was a big one! We raised a series B funding and have welcomed two companies to our organisation. With 400+ people, representing 36 nationalities living in 30 different countries, we are a fun, collaborative and committed team that works hard to achieve amazing results. Ready to take off and join this rocketship in revolutionising the hotel sector?

About the team & the role

The OTA Insight Data Engineering team in Ghent is the gatekeeper to our vast datasets. We are the go-to team for any new feature development that requires adaptations to the way we store, model and aggregate our data. The team works in close collaboration with our Product team, as well as a highly talented group of software engineers and data scientists to drive initiatives forward.

In this skilled team you’ll be trusted to: 

• Implement, maintain and improve streaming and batch data processing pipelines.
• Set up and maintain infrastructure & tools to support our data processing pipelines.
• Research and test data processing methodologies, tools and frameworks.
• Actively contribute to the observability & testability of our data pipelines.
• Be part of the product scrum-teams, to tackle data storage, modelling and transformation problems related to new feature developments.

Technologies you’ll work with:

Google Cloud Pub/Sub, BigTable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Kubernetes, Python

 (feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

Benefits of working at OTA Insight

• The opportunity to shape the products that more than 75.000 users rely on world-wide
• The chance to grow and evolve the data culture at a fast-growing scale-up
• A flexible working environment where you can work from home or at one of our offices
• Two annual Detox Days, on top of your personal holidays, when we take some time away from our computers with the entire company
• Lunch, on us, every day you’re at the Ghent office
• A choose-your-own transportation budget should you choose to come to the office
• A highly competitive compensation package 

We are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in a data engineering related position.
• Professional experience in Python
• Knowledge of one or more cloud database solutions like BigQuery, Snowflake, BigTable, DynamoDB, Spanner,...
• Experience with micro service architectures and one or more data streaming systems like Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub or Amazon SNS,...
• Desire to continually keep up with advancements in data engineering practises
• You have played an active role in the data research phase of new projects, and actively contributed to the idea generation process.
• You are always curious about how a technology works under the hood, in order to make a proper assessment of what the ideal use-case for the technology is and understand its limitations.
• Experience in the serverles offering of cloud providers like e.g. GCP or AWS
• Fluent in English