Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform (d/f/m)

Our story:

Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.

Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix, Steuerbot and TaxScouts, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016

Your challenge:

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help build the platform and pipelines to provide a compliant, efficient and scalable data environment at Taxfix to power ML, analytics and reporting. 

You will work on different projects across the pillars of providing platform services that enable our ML and AI driven product development, enable high quality data, effective data pipelines and monitoring and ensure our data is maintained in a secure, compliant and cost efficient manner.

The data engineer role we are looking for is one with strong software engineer skills but at the same time knowledge of modern data technologies including Snowflake, Airflow, Segment.io, Vertex AI/Sagemaker, Kubernetes and Terraform. We are also open to new solutions and skills that will enable our goals and you will play an important role in defining the future of our platform; particularly to ensure it can serve ML and AI powered in product experiences as well as existing reporting and analytics needs.

Your team:

You will be delivering and improving our Data and ML Platforms. Your team is part of the Data Organization, which enables everyone in the company to make data-driven decisions, drive business growth and ensure we have the right information to enable ML and automation in our products.

We’re committed to data democratization, scalability, and actionable insights. Within our group we have product analysts, marketing analysts, analytics engineers, reporting analysts, machine learning engineers and data engineers and we work across the whole of Taxfix. The Data Platform team works cross functionally so you can expect to work with other team members and be part of new project teams. 

Our team members have different data engineering backgrounds, some of them coming from backend development and some other from other data positions, so the combination of these skills makes it easy to connect with other teams. We can rely on each other to deliver our best and are committed to personal development via knowledge sharing, through mentoring and innovation days

Your responsibilities and decisions:

• You create the platform that makes ingress and egress of data in a fast-paced environment a simple and reliable

• You will be responsible for the data and partially ML infrastructure in Taxfix

• You will be responsible to research new technologies that will help the team to achieve the mission goals across data management, analytics and machine learning

• You will implement and support our security and compliance policies 

• You will participate in the data architecture design and decision making process

• You will be integral in establishing team-wide standards: excellent documentation, monitoring & alerting, code quality, unit testing, CI + CD

Your profile:

•  5+ years experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar position

• Proven track record of working with Python for Data Engineering around Data Ingestion and Data Quality.

• Strong SQL skills and knowledge of Airflow and Docker

• Knowledge and experience of data quality and monitoring best practices

• Knowledge about the current data engineering tools on the market

• Experience working in Public cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks)

• Excitement to work cross-functionally with different specialists

• A team player and don’t mind “getting your hands dirty“ to support and mentor others

• Solid communication: We constantly work close to different teams in different domains(business, analytics, engineering) so you need to be ready to interact with them

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Helm

• You are a diversity champion

Why Taxfix?

• A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.

• Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.

• A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like.

• Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.

• Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it.

• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.

• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.

• Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal tech meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible.

• Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.

• Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.

Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture.

At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves.

Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously.