Data Engineer

About Us

Perk (formerly Travel Perk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time‑consuming, manual work that get in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to scale our Data Team and help us improve our Data Platform & Data Integration processes. This role’s mission will be to:

• Ensure we are able to keep all data in our Data Warehouse updated and accessible for transformation and analysis
• Partner with the Analytics Engineers and Data Analysts to support the requirements of the company in terms of reliability, quality, and efficiency
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from different sources and integrate it in the Data Warehouse following best practices

• Take charge of the required data processing while ensuring sustainable and organic growth of our data platform and infrastructure
• Keep our data infrastructure up to date and working like a clock
• Integrate datasets from different sources
• Support our Data Analysts & Analytics Engineers to get the right data to build dashboards and complex analytical models
• Support Analytics Engineering teams in defining the best approaches for data modelling
• Use data to investigate and help resolve issues in our product or processes
• In collaboration with our Data Governance team, proactively suggest improvements to data security, reliability, efficiency and quality
• Champion a healthy data culture throughout the organisation

• 3+ years of relevant experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Big‑Data Engineer or similar role working with large‑scale data systems
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, in English
• Master in SQL, optimising queries for performance, scalability, and ease of maintenance
• Comfortable querying different types of databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, Redshift, Snowflake) and knowledge of different AWS services
• Accustomed to designing and implementing complex architectures with a constant eye on their future evolution while taking into account the needs of multiple users
• Experience building data pipelines using Python
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources including databases, product tracking, and APIs. Get excited by seeing your jobs run like clockwork
• Instinct for automation
• Desire to work in an international multi‑location environment with highly engaged individuals

• Experience with AWS Redshift or other distributed systems (Snowflake, Big Query, Hadoop, Vertica, Exasol, etc.). Basic DBA skills
• Experience in web analytics and web tracking and event‑based analytics tools
• Experience with workflow managers (Airflow, etc.)
• Experience with dbt
• Experience in queue and streaming systems (SNS, Kafka, Firehose…)

• Competitive compensation including equity in the company
• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge
• Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance depending on your location
• Flexible compensation plan to help you diversify and increase the net salary
• Unforgettable Perk events including travel to one of our hubs
• A mental health support tool for your wellbeing
• Exponential growth opportunities

We serve as a platform for human connection in‑real‑life (IRL). We take an IRL‑first approach to work, where our team works together in‑person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our Barcelona hub. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in‑real‑life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately make us a great place to work.

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in  or , our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official Linked In page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like Whats App, Telegram, or Signal.

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We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.