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Senior Data Engineer

Picnic

Picnic

Data Science
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Feb 28, 2025

Senior Data Engineer

Engineering 📍 Amsterdam

In a nutshell

As a Data Engineer at Picnic, you are responsible for translating business needs into successful technical designs. You’ll work with large data sets, discover new insights and business opportunities, and promote business intelligence. It’s a role with plenty of freedom: think you've spotted a way to ensure our large fleet of electric vehicles is used in the most efficient way? Go ahead and test, evaluate, and evolve your ideas alongside our Distribution team. More interested in customer behavior? Work on in-app analytics to ensure our mobile store remains smooth, speedy, and robust.

Tricks of the trade

Ownership: Participate in the whole process from gathering requirements to visualizing results
Stakeholder management: Collaborate with domain experts, analysts, and backend engineers to solve data challenges
Engineering: Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines while applying data modeling techniques, to contribute to a robust data platform
Software development: Keeping things automated and simple, in order to increase adoption by data engineers, machine learning engineers, and analysts
Decision making: Be pragmatic while delivering high-quality implementations
Our Tech: SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake,Tableau, Argo, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Meltano

Want to know more about being a Data Engineer at Picnic? We’ve got some blog articles just for you:

And check out our Open Source Projects: diepvries and dbt-score

We’re looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
Around 5 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or Infrastructure
Experience with SQL and relational databases
Experience with Python or other programming languages
Experience with infrastructure technologies (e.g. schedulers, Docker, K8s)
You’re a great communicator who can explain and present technical topics to a varied audience
Fluent in English (Dutch not required)

Picnic Perks

✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner!

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

💡 Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

🍎 You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

🚴🏽 Stay healthy

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.

There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!

🔋 Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries

A bit about us

When you join Picnic, you’re joining the shopping revolution, delivering groceries to millions of people across Europe, and we’re growing fast. Think super fresh products and personal service, but in a modern, sustainable way. And we’re the only ones in the world doing it all by ourselves. From our fully automated fulfillment centre to delivery algorithms and marketing campaigns: we do it all in-house. Our team consists of 85+ nationalities and we’re always looking for new talent. Ready for the ride?

Recruitment Process

1

CV Screening

2

Phone Screening

3

Online test

4

Interviews

Commitment to equal opportunities

Picnic is an equal opportunity employer—this means that all decisions regarding applications will be based on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be regarded independently of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color, civil status, religious beliefs, physical or mental disability, or any other factors protected by law.
At Picnic, we celebrate and value our differences and are committed to building a safe and inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves.

Get in touch with our recruiters

Get in touch with our recruiters

Frankie Prina - Recruiter

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