Madrid Data Engineer — Hybrid, Real-Time Data Platform

TAPTAP Peru; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Madrid office

Global markets

Competitive compensation

Dynamic environment

Job summary

Taptap is seeking a Data Engineer based in Madrid, Spain, to design, build, and optimize scalable data systems across the Sonata platform. The role collaborates with Product, Operations, and Marketing to deliver data-driven solutions that support analysis, informed decision-making, and continuous innovation.

You will develop real-time processing, ETL pipelines, and a data warehouse, ensuring data quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 1 year of software development experience with JavaScript and/or Python.
• Experience with Big Data environments and large-scale data processing.
• Comfort in Unix/Linux environments and relational/NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud data lakehouse architectures (AWS S3/Athena) and Agile practices.
• Professional level of English (C1).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain large-scale data processing systems handling real-time user data.
• Build and optimize ETL pipelines and the data warehouse ensuring data quality.
• Improve data accuracy from technical and business perspectives.
• Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Marketing to integrate data from multiple sources.
• Develop internal tools to streamline data extraction and insights generation.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and evolve the data stack.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle.

Skills

JavaScript

Python

Big Data concepts

Agile methodologies

English (C1)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS S3

AWS Athena

Unix/Linux

JIRA

Kubernetes

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Taptap is seeking a Data Engineer based in Madrid, Spain, to design, build, and optimize scalable data systems across the Sonata platform. The role collaborates with Product, Operations, and Marketing to deliver data-driven solutions that support analysis, informed decision-making, and continuous innovation.

You will develop real-time processing, ETL pipelines, and a data warehouse, ensuring data quality and reliability.