Rithum is the world's most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimise operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins. Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimised consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.
OverviewAs a Senior Data Engineer, you are a key architect in developing, delivering and maintaining intelligent data infrastructure that powers advanced analytics. You are an experienced data engineer with strong ETL pipeline and dimensional modeling skills, who is ready to leverage AI as a powerful collaborator and brings a depth of knowledge to ensure it is employed effectively for the long-term health of our business systems. You are responsible for building complex data pipelines from the ground up, delivering data into and enhancing a database infrastructure that powers advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous data operations. You work across the organization, supporting and collaborating with our product teams, engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. In this context, you enhance and support our company's cloud data architecture to support our products and data initiatives, for external clients as well as internal users.
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT workflows that support both batch and streaming data using AWS primitives (e.g., S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Athena)
Architect and maintain cloud-native data platforms with automated ingestion, transformation, and governance pipelines using modern tools like DBT, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, and Databricks
Work with stakeholders, including the Product, BI, and Support teams, to assist with data-related technical challenges and support their data and infrastructure needs
Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering teams using analytics to predict data needs and proactively deliver solutions
Assist in the optimization of data lake/lakehouse infrastructure, to support AI workloads and large-scale analytics
Governance & Collaboration
Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability
Develop and enforce data governance policies, including compliance monitoring and privacy protection
Partner with Data Scientists to optimize data pipelines for model training, inference, and continuous learning workflows
Advanced Data Operations
Build self-healing data pipelines with AI-driven error detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation capabilities
Implement intelligent data lineage tracking to automatically discover relationships between datasets and predict downstream impact of changes
Create AI-assisted data discovery systems that help stakeholders find relevant datasets and understand data semantics through natural language interfaces
Participate in on-call rotation, as needed
AI-Enhanced Development
Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development cycles, generate complex SQL queries, and automatically optimize data pipeline code
Develop data quality monitoring, using anomaly detection and data profiling tools to identify issues, before they impact downstream systems
Optimize pipeline orchestration, with ML to predict optimal scheduling, resource allocation, and failure recovery patterns
Generate and maintain living documentation that evolves with code changes
Leadership & Innovation
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including both manual and AI-assisted requirements gathering, automated testing, and intelligent deployment strategies
Mentor junior engineers on both traditional data engineering practices and effective use of AI development tools
Lead tool evaluation and adoption for the data engineering team, establishing best practices for human-AI collaboration
Drive innovation in data architecture by experimenting with emerging technologies
QualificationsMinimum Qualifications
3+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
Extensive experience in SQL RDBMS (SQLServer or similar) with dimensional modeling using star schema, and foundational data warehousing concepts
Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue
Experience with DBT, Databricks or similar data platform tooling
Experience working with structured and unstructured data and implementing data quality frameworks
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with understanding of prompt engineering, to enhance development productivity
Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data requirements, including feature stores, model versioning, and real-time inference pipelines
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Experience in a SaaS or e-commerce environment with AI/ML products
Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming
Familiarity with LLMOps and AI model deployment patterns in data infrastructure
Experience with AI-powered data tools such as automated data catalogs, intelligent monitoring systems, or AI-assisted query optimization
Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting priorities and emerging technologies
Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
TravelUp to 10%
Other DutiesPlease note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
What It's Like To Work At RithumWhen you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds. As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.
At Rithum You Will
Partner with the leading brands and retailers
Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals
Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere
Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days
Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits
Benefits
Medical, Dental and Psychology benefits
Life insurance and disability benefits
Competitive time off package with 25 Days of PTO, 13 Company-Paid Holidays, 2 Wellness days and 1 Paid Volunteer Day
Voucher program for Transportation, Meals & Childcare
Work from the Madrid co-working space, if desired
Remote Working Stipend: €40/month automatically applied in payroll
Access to tools to support your wellbeing such as the Calm App and an Employee Assistance Program
Professional development stipend and learning and development offerings to help you build the skills and connections you need to move forward in your career
Charitable contribution match per team member
Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Software Development
Industries
Software Development
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