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WeRoad

51 - 200 employees

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 Series B on 2023-11

Hospitality • Logistics • Travel

WeRoad is a community of travelers united by their will to discover faraway countries and cultures and share these experiences with peers. The company designs tours for groups of people who share similar interests and lifestyles, offering them life-changing travel experiences. WeRoad emphasizes small group travel led by a Travel Coordinator, who facilitates encounters with local communities and cultures. Their vision is to become the leading group travel tour operator for the Millennial generation, aiming to revolutionize the approach Millennials take towards group travel.

📋 Description

• Lead the Data Engineering team of 1–2 engineers, owning delivery, quality, and career development. • Own and evolve the layered BigQuery warehouse, dbt transformation layer, and semantic layer defining company metrics. • Own ingestion and orchestration using Airflow and dlt, including the move to serverless CDC. • Ensure reliability, quality, and observability of data pipelines. • Own self-service BI and reporting tools including Tableau, Metabase, and the move to Lightdash/dashboards-as-code. • Establish and maintain data governance covering data quality, lineage, documentation, PII, access controls, and self-service standards. • Drive AI-assisted engineering and production AI data pipelines across the team. • Partner with the Director of Data Engineering & AI, Data & BI, Product, and business stakeholders to translate priorities into a data roadmap. • Write code, review architecture, set technical direction, standards, and roadmap as a hands-on player-coach.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering in fast-growing product companies. • Experience designing and evolving cloud data warehouses and pipelines; BigQuery/GCP is a strong plus. • Experience leading and mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on. • Strong SQL skills. • Hands-on expertise with dbt, modern ELT/ingestion such as dlt, and workflow orchestration such as Airflow. • Experience with BI and dashboarding tools including Tableau, Metabase, Lightdash or similar. • Experience building a semantic/metrics layer on top of a warehouse. • Track record establishing data governance covering quality, lineage, documentation, PII, access management, and self-service. • Demonstrable use of AI-assisted engineering and AI in data pipelines, and experience driving adoption across a team. • Excellent communication skills. • Fluent English. • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, multi-market, remote-first environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonus – A discretionary annual variable bonus, based on performance and company results. • A free WeRoad trip every year – Choose your dream destination with €1,400/year travel discount or travel even more as a Travel Coordinator. • Trust-based holidays – You are encouraged to take the time you need to recharge, beyond contractual minimums, within shared guidelines. • Opportunities to learn – Training and learning opportunities. • New parent support – €3,600/year for 3 years after birth or adoption (or prorated if your child is under 3 when you start at WeRoad). • Meal vouchers (€8/day – when applicable). • €1,000 bonus for your wedding or civil union. • One-off bonus when you hit 5 years with us. • A vibrant co-working space. • Team buildings and meet-ups. • Hybrid working – Flexible working, and support to work from your destination of choice up to 1 month per year.

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