Since 2019 ADFERENCE is a subsidiary of the fashion-tech company ABOUT YOU. We are a fast-growing, innovative tech company that provides online marketing solutions for Google Ads and Amazon. Our tool helps large agencies and brands like Snocks , Spreadshirt and Lampenwelt to optimize their Amazon Advertising and Google Ads campaigns.
Job DescriptionWe're looking for a mid-level Data Engineer to strengthen our internal data platform and help product teams ship faster, more reliable data-powered features.
You'll join our Engineering Foundation chapter, collaborating closely with DevOps, product engineers, and other data engineers to build, operate, and evolve the systems that power our products.
There will be close collaboration with our team of cross-functional engineers to help create impactful and reliable insights from our data.
Your Responsibilities:
Design and build new data-powered features for internal and external products, working closely with product and frontend/backend engineers.
Develop and maintain scalable, well-documented data pipelines using Airflow and dbt, running on Snowflake and other modern cloud tooling.
Create internal tools, APIs, or utilities to make data more accessible and usable across engineering and product teams.
Contribute to the architecture and implementation of new data products, from ingestion to modeling to serving.
Set up and monitor data quality, freshness, and health, integrating observability into everything you ship.
Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for DAGs, dbt models, and platform configuration using GitOps principles.
Troubleshoot pipeline issues and performance bottlenecks, and proactively improve resilience and execution speed.
Collaborate with product teams to identify opportunities to simplify and scale data workflows.
Collaborate on platform improvements like cost-optimization, model run tracking, and efficient use of compute/storage.
What We're Looking For
Required:
2–4 years of experience in data engineering or platform-oriented backend roles
Solid experience with:
Airflow DAGs or other task orchestration
dbt (Core or Cloud) for data modeling
Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse
SQL and Python for scripting and operational logic
CI/CD pipelines (eg GitHub Actions)
Familiar with observability and monitoring (eg, Datadog, data freshness checks)
Comfortable working at the intersection of data pipelines, infrastructure, and developer experience
Bonus:
Experience in cost-aware data operations or platform governance
Exposure to ML workflows and model/data validation patterns
What problems do we solve for our customers? Our team of over 70 employees works passionately on a PPC solution that uses intelligent and data-supported algorithms to automatically create granular campaigns for advertisers and place the right bids for millions of products and keywords. 👉Our goal is to make the best solutions and results for our customers as easy as possible with the right automations. This saves our customers time, nerves and money! ⏳ What is our mission and vision? Our mission is to use data insights to make the right marketing decisions and help our clients realize their full business potential. ✅ Our vision is, Delivering the smartest marketing automation for advertisers worldwide. ✅ Where are we from? On January 1, 2014, a five-person research team consisting of Christian Borck, Dr. Florian Nottorf, Tobias-Benedikt Blask and Stefan Kleine Stegemann under the scientific direction of Prof. Dr. Burkhardt Funk, at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Since April 2019, ADFERENCE has been a wholly owned subsidiary of ABOUT YOU, Hamburg's first unicorn fashion tech company. What makes working with us so special? At ADFERENCE we value diverse teams, fun at work, a good work-life balance, teamwork and we believe in the importance of constructive feedback! With us, everyone should have the space to express themselves and become an important BID of our great team! Curious? You can find a detailed overview of all vacancies on our website: https://hubs.ly/Q017_1JQ0 You don't want to miss any more ADFERENCE webinars, Amazon news and exciting insights? Then subscribe to our newsletter: https://hubs.ly/Q017_1C00