Senior Data Engineer: Data Lake Ingestion Architect Hybrid

Preply Inc.; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lessons allowance for learning

Learning & Development budget

Relocation package (Barcelona hub)

Health insurance

Gym access

Job summary

Preply Inc. in Barcelona is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and own the data layer powering analytics, ML, and product.

You will collaborate with ML Platform, Analytics, Backend, and Product squads to ensure features, datasets, and pipelines are production-ready, observable, and reusable across the company.

This hands-on role blends engineering excellence with technical leadership in a unicorn-backed education tech company that values scalable, trusted data foundations.

Qualifications

• Exposure to and experience building architectural patterns of a large, high-scale application.
• Solid experience working in platform or data engineering teams (or equivalent impact) with evidence of leading multi-stakeholder deliveries.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP or equivalent) and modern DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing real-time and batch data processing infrastructures using modern frameworks like Spark, Flink, Spark streaming, Kafka, Debezium, etc.
• Expertise with orchestration tools such as Airflow, dbt, or similar.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills paired with a proactive, innovative mindset focused on continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills (English level B2+)

Responsibilities

• Build trusted ingestion & enrichment foundations (Data Lake and Data as a Product).
• Own end-to-end ingestion pipelines (batch & streaming).
• Data quality, contracts & early validation.
• Enrichment, modeling & lifecycle management.
• Observability, reliability & operational excellence.
• Governance & compliance by design.
• Enable self-service & standardization.
• Cross-team collaboration & ownership.

Skills

Data engineering

Data lake

Batch & streaming

Data contracts

Observability

Governance

Cross-team collaboration

English (B2+)

Tools

Spark

Flink

Spark streaming

Kafka

Debezium

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Preply Inc. in Barcelona is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and own the data layer powering analytics, ML, and product.

You will collaborate with ML Platform, Analytics, Backend, and Product squads to ensure features, datasets, and pipelines are production-ready, observable, and reusable across the company.

This hands-on role blends engineering excellence with technical leadership in a unicorn-backed education tech company that values scalable, trusted data foundations.