Data Engineer

Technology & 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. From route planning to the delivery of groceries to analyzing supply chains, your work ensures that each level of our operation is supported, adjusted, and predicted with data.

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.

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

Q&A Picnic Data Engineering Series

7 Antifragile Principles for a Successful Data Warehouse

Scaling Business Intelligence with Python and Snowflake

How we built our Lakeless Data Warehouse

Building a distributed ETL pipeline for a monolithic data warehouse

Data Engineer’s Role in the Future of Groceries

Picnic’s Lakeless Data Warehouse

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

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

Share: Master both technical skills and business sense to become an analytical multiplier within the company

Decision making: Be pragmatic while delivering high-quality implementations

Our Tech: SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake,Tableau, Argo, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Meltano

We’re looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

2+ years of relevant experience in Data Engineering

Experience with SQL and relational databases

Experience with Python or other programming languages

You’re excited by Kimball and Data Vault analytical data modeling

You have a deep understanding of Data Warehousing concepts and design patterns

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. The tech team at Picnic is at the core of Picnic. From deep learning models to forecast orders to delivery algorithms to warehouse logistics: we’ve built it all from the ground up. You’ll thrive here if you’re a problem solver with a pro-active mindset who’s not afraid to be challenged daily.

Recruitment Process

1

CV Screening

2

Phone Screening

3

Home assignment

4

Interviews

5

Assessment day

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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