Data Engineer (m/f/d) at internationally growing educational gaming start-up

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote

About Edurino

EDURINO is a new way of educational gaming loved by kids and parents alike. We rethink how kids learn and play with our hybrid learning system that combines a digital app, real figurines and our ergonomic stylus. Our team is dedicated to creating innovative and interactive, game-based learning experiences for preschoolers between 4-8+ years old. We have a strong investor backing (a.o. DN Capital, Tengelmann Ventures, FJ Labs, b2venture, and Emerge Education) and are about to expand our reach to more learners around the globe!

Role Purpose
Are you a forward-thinking Data Engineer (m/f/d) ready to pioneer the expansion of our data infrastructure? Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping the technological backbone of our rapidly growing business. As a key member of our early-stage technology team, you'll have unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth, with the freedom to chart your own course to success.

Your role extends to promoting performance, efficiency, and reliability, guaranteeing that data-driven decisions significantly enhance the creation of a user-centric game that not only entertains but also educates.

Excited? Keep reading (CV is enough)!
The Development Team is looking forward to meeting you!

This role can be performed in our Munich office, our Berlin co-working space, and remotely within Germany. #LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid

Apply for this job if you are passionate about…

… automating tasks.
… thriving in a fast-growing start-up environment.
… working on a meaningful purpose.

Your mission at EDURINO

Data-informed strategy: Define & utilise data analytics to guide product decisions, measure learning outcomes, and optimise game engagement and effectiveness.
Cross-functional influence: Collaborate closely with project managers, game designers, developers, educational consultants, product managers and our marketing team to make sure everything is aligned and executed seamlessly.
Global advocate: You leverage your strong communication skills and experience working with a global team to be a promoter for data engineering across the organisation.
Analytical mindset: You are focused on performance analysis, optimisation, and tuning.
Innovation: Come up with ideas and compare different technologies to improve our cutting-edge stack.

It is a match if you…

… have 3+ years of data engineering experience (ideally in gaming, advertising, analytics, technology, data, or business intelligence).
… have a degree in computer science, data science or a similar field.
… have an analytical talent, are proactive and flexible.
… have experience with Python, SQL or similar programming languages as well as Google Cloud Platform (e.g. BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, etc.).
… know how to integrate machine learning capabilities into data pipelines to analyse and derive insights from data.
… gained experience in designing and creating ETL processes and building and working with both batch and real-time data pipelines.
… have experience with distributed processing frameworks (e.g. ApacheSpark).
… are proficient in writing and optimising SQL queries for large, complex data sets.
... have experience in extracting data from REST APIs.
… have experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Looker Studio).
… are a hands-on person with a goal-driven can-do mentality and have a very autonomous working style.
… are a fantastic communicator in English.

Starting date

as soon as possible

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About us

What we believe in

We believe that, in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products. We hire people who are passionate about the product and team, and we favor ability and willingness to learn over experience. EDURINO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender. We foster a work environment that enables personal and professional growth and always strive to find the truth in discussions, independent of seniority or position as all opinions are respected.

What makes us special

A start-up culture based on trust with flat hierarchies. Join an early stage start-up, take on responsibility from day 1 and be part of the ride.
A hybrid working mode. Work remotely from wherever you like within Germany or work from our office in Munich (Haidhausen).
Regular company events. We meet in Munich every 4 months and do fun stuff together. Travel expenses covered.
Regular team events (online and offline). While remote, we meet online for a pub quiz or a drawing game. While in Munich, we go hiking at Tegernsee, we meet at the "Biergarten" or we do an exit game.
A multicultural team and English first as our company language. We believe that a variety of perspectives, ideas and cultures lead to better products.
A share package for every employee. You benefit from the exit of a rapidly growing company.
Family-friendliness and work-life balance. We have trust-based working hours that offer a maximum of flexibility and self-management.
Development Opportunities. We offer personal development time during working hours and a yearly development budget of 1.000€.
Additional benefits. KITA allowance (Germany), the hardware you need (e.g. Mac or Windows), employee benefit offerings with exclusive discounts, bike leasing (JobRad), and a company pension scheme.

How to become part of the team

We look forward to receiving your application (CV is enough!). Once we have reviewed it and decide to invite you, we schedule a first 30-minute interview where we get to know each other. After our company presentation, you will have the space to tell us why you would be the perfect fit for us and we are happy to answer all of your questions.
Depending on the position, there is now a small homework for you - either an art/coding test or the elaboration of some questions within a case study.
We schedule another interview with the direct report of your position. You will elaborate the task or questions you have solved.
You (e-)meet one of the co-founders. Depending of the position, we will now ask you for some references.
After a couple of days, we will get back to you with the final decision and you become part of #teamedurino, yay!
The following onboarding steps include meetings with your onboarding buddy and your team members, getting to know everyone from both our business and tech team and of course receiving your EDURINO onboarding box!

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Thank you for your interest in Edurino. Please fill out the following short form. If you have any difficulties uploading your files, please contact us by mail at info@edurino.com.