Junior Data Engineer (m/f/d)

At FREE NOW we are at the most exciting point in our history - building a world-class product used daily by more than a million people. We are a part of one of the most dynamic spaces for innovation in the world today: shaping mobility. Our daily business is solving large-scale, highly complex problems – and we love it. As a new "family member" you will stretch, learn, grow, and have fun doing it in a creative, diverse and collaborative environment. Don’t join FREE NOW because of our perks or great office locations, join us if you can’t wait to disrupt the mobility industry with us!

​​You want to be part of the next step in the evolution of FREE NOW into a global player in the ride-hailing industry and the establishment of FREE NOW’s role in the future of autonomous vehicle platforms?

Our Data Engineering teams are designing and building data pipelines to schedule and orchestrate a variety of tasks such as import, cleanse, transform, enrich, and export data as per the business needs. In order to improve our customer experience and deliver a great product, we serve the data insights at depth to various teams like data analysts, data science and business stakeholders to take strategic decisions, train DS models, perform health checks, etc.

Your role:

• Build and maintain batch data pipelines that can consolidate and clean up usage analytics.
• Work with multiple partner teams and build cross-functional solutions in a collaborative work environment.
• Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Build REST APIs to access and query data from data warehouse.
• Development of user interfaces and front-end architectures.
• Writes unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work.
• Performs data analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues.
• Works closely with a team of backend engineers, product managers, and analysts.

Your profile:

• You have basic knowledge of at least one programming language and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Scala and Python.
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies such as HTML/CSS/Javascript and libraries like React JS.
• You have knowledge of the AWS suite, such as AWS S3, AWS Cloud watch ...
• Nice to have experience with Distributed systems such as Spark, Presto is helpful.
• Good understanding in SQL, Database. Experience in building data pipelines is a great plus. Love getting your hands dirty with the data implementing custom ETLs to craft it into information.
• You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by many customers, your attention to detail leads to a delightful user experience.
• Fluent proficiency in Business English.

Diversity and inclusion:

At FREE NOW, we commit to being an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We celebrate diversity and have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. Together with passionate, creative and collaborative colleagues, we are following our purpose of making mobility available for everyone.

Move like you

At FREE NOW we have colleagues from over 70 nations! We value open communication and welcome everyone as they are. We are all one team and follow the same goals – that’s why we share our insights and results to get on track together every month. 

Your wellness and work-life balance matters to us. We offer trust-based and flexible working hours as well as the option to work from home. In the office, you can enjoy our free drinks and daily fresh fruit. Do you like to be active? Take part in our subsidised gym membership. Bigger plans? Take a sabbatical leave and get out there!

Let’s grow together! We believe in a transparent career growth plan, quarterly development sessions with your team lead as well as regular 1:1s to help you thrive! For your own ideas, you’re welcome to set up initiatives and projects.

Need a lift? We offer Udemy e-learning platform, subsidised language classes, internal peer-to-peer trainings and more to support your learning & development opportunities.

More Benefits? 👏 Monthly mobility budget for FREE NOW rides, quarterly team events, company-wide onboarding days at our HQ in Hamburg, relocation assistance for internationals, birthday-off, kudos and many more!

About FREE NOW:

FREE NOW is Europe’s leading multi-mobility platform backed by BMW Group and Daimler AG. Next to ride hailing, FREE NOW also offers micro-mobility services such as e-scooters, e-bikes, e-vespas as well as car sharing. It consists of the services FREE NOW (10 European markets) and Βeat (5 Latin American and 1 European market). Summed up, those services currently attract 50 million users in 16 markets and more than 150 cities. FREE NOW is therefore the biggest multi-service mobility provider in Europe and the fastest-growing ride-hailer in Latin America. FREE NOW works with various third party providers to offer their customers an even wider range of options to get from A to B. In total, around 1,900 employees in around 35 offices work for the services of FREE NOW, which is led by CEO Thomas Zimmermann.