Senior Data Engineer

Questa posizione è in Smartness

Il processo di selezione sarà interamente gestito Smartness.

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About the company At Smartness , we are building the future of hospitality tech. Our SaaS helps lodging providers boost revenues by 30%+ and get more direct bookings. We are the fastest-growing B2B SaaS in the industry, trusted by 4,000+ clients across 40+ countries , with billions of euros in bookings processed. Backed by top international investors and named one of Italy's Top 10 LinkedIn Startups, we are on a mission to scale globally. Want to grow with us? Let's go

About the role

What Will You Do? ? As a Senior Data Engineer , you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data infrastructures that turn raw data into reliable, actionable insights. You’ll work like an internal enabler for multiple teams, owning data pipelines end-to-end and ensuring data quality, performance, and availability across the organization. Your missions:

• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to ingest, transform, and serve data from multiple sources.
• Develop and optimize data models and warehouses to support analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance , monitoring pipelines and resolving issues proactively.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Tech, Analytics, and Business teams to understand data needs and translate them into scalable solutions.
• Enable analytics and experimentation by providing clean, well-documented, and accessible datasets .
• Drive continuous improvement of the data stack, tooling, and best practices, balancing speed, scalability, and cost.

What We’re Looking For ?

• Data Engineering Expertise – Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines and data platforms. Solid knowledge of data modelling, SQL, ETL/ELT patterns, and data quality practices.
• Modern Data Stack – Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data warehouses/lakes. Experience with tools and technologies for data transformation, orchestration, and pipeline development (e.g. Airflow/Dagster, Spark or similar).
• Analytical Mindset – Ability to understand business problems and translate them into effective data structures and solutions.
• Autonomy & Ownership – Comfortable working with high ownership, independently managing priorities, proactively identifying problems, and delivering reliable, high-quality solutions.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing concepts and hands-on experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Polars, or equivalent technologies. Ability to reason about partitioning, data skew, shuffles, parallelism, memory usage, and query/pipeline performance.
• Track Record – 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in similar data-focused roles, ideally in startups or scale-ups.
• Bonus – Experience in SaaS, travel-tech, or hospitality-related data environments.
• Languages – Fluent English. Professional Italian is a plus.

What Do We Offer? ?

• Work in a small and top-performing team that moves extremely fast where you are extremely important.
• Work without having to deal with jerks and ego-maniacs.
• The opportunity to join one of the best travel-tech sales teams in Europe.
• A place where your talent can blossom.
• An environment where mistakes are allowed – we make bold choices to achieve ambitious goals, learn from mistakes, and move forward.
• A place where your voice matters – meetings provide space for new ideas and projects, regardless of your role or seniority.
• Continuous growth – we challenge the status quo, renewing our sales processes and approaches to meet challenging goals.
• We have fun while working We are easygoing people.
• Work with the best software out there to automate repetitive tasks and let you focus on customers and targets.
• Remote working
• We offer competitive compensation and the opportunity to participate in the company’s long-term growth through equity access. Candidates with solid professional experience but limited exposure to this specific role typically join with an annual OTE starting from €45,000 across Europe, while candidates with significant relevant experience may receive compensation of up to €67,000, depending on