Senior Data Engineer

Meili; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Health Insurance

Generous annual leave

Paid Family Leave

Job summary

Meili seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and warehouse models that power our commercial, partnerships and product teams. You will manage ingestion from our platform and partners, and shape the Snowflake model layer to be reliable, well-documented, and queryable for the business.

You will build data quality and observability, design durable data models, and partner with teams to translate questions into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive production data pipelines and warehouse models with clear ownership.
• Strong, fluent SQL with window functions and cloud warehouse experience (Snowflake a real advantage).
• Proficient Python for data engineering: ingestion, transformation and testing.
• Software engineering discipline: Git, code review, CI/CD and testing.
• Experience with warehouse cost management and query optimization at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data pipelines feeding our warehouse from partner systems and third party sources.
• Own and extend the modelled analytics layer in Snowflake for well-documented, queryable tables.
• Incorporate data quality, freshness checks, alerts, and lineage into the platform.
• Model business metrics so numbers mean the same thing across contexts.
• Collaborate with commercial, partnerships and product teams to translate needs into durable data models.
• Set engineering standards for the data team including version control and documentation.
• Mentor and coach teammates while acting as a technical sounding board.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Git

CI/CD

Snowflake

DBT

AWS

Terraform

Communication skills

Tools

Looker

Power BI

Metabase

Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated, self-starting Senior Data Engineer to join the team. You will own the data pipelines and warehouse models that our commercial, partnerships and product teams depend on: the ingestion layer that brings data in from our own platform and from our partners, and the modelled layer in Snowflake that turns it into something a non-engineer can trust and query.

About Meili

Meili builds technology that enables car rental companies to integrate and partner directly with airlines and travel brands, delivering a friction free traveller experience.

Founded by a team with extensive travel tech experience, we’ve already partnered with 25+ global brands including LATAM, SAS, Lufthansa, Air Canada, Accor Hotels, and FREENOW, and we’re committed to rewriting the rules of ancillary distribution.

You’ll love it here if...

• You want hands-on ownership and the opportunity to understand our data from end to end.
• You thrive in a small team where your ideas and decisions have a visible impact.
• You’re excited to shape how a platform evolves - not simply implement someone else’s design.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain the data pipelines that feed our warehouse, including ingestion from partner systems and third-party sources, each with its own quirks and reliability profile.
• Own and extend our modelled analytics layer in Snowflake, turning raw source data into well-documented, well-tested tables that the business can query directly.
• Build data quality and observability into the platform: tests, freshness checks, alerting and lineage, so we find out about a broken feed before a partner does.
• Model the metrics the business runs on, so that a number means the same thing wherever it appears.
• Partner directly with commercial, partnerships and product colleagues to understand what they actually need, and translate vague questions into durable data models rather than one-off queries.
• Set engineering standards for the data team - version control, code review, CI, environments, documentation - and raise the bar for how we work.
• Mentor, coach and train others, while acting as a technical sounding board across the team.

About You

• Substantial building production data pipelines and warehouse models, with clear ownership of systems others depended on.
• Strong, fluent SQL - window functions, incremental logic, query tuning - and solid experience with a cloud warehouse. Snowflake specifically is a real advantage.
• Confident Python for data engineering: ingestion, transformation, testing.
• Dimensional and event-based modelling instincts: you can look at a messy data source and design something sane on top of it.
• Software engineering discipline applied to data - Git, code review, CI/CD and testing.
• Experience with warehouse cost management and query optimisation at scale.
• The communication skills to work with non-technical stakeholders, push back constructively, and create documentation that a colleague can pick up and build on.

Highly desirable

• DBT - hands-on experience building and maintaining a modelled transformation layer.
• AWS - comfortable working across the services a data platform actually runs on.
• Terraform - you manage infrastructure as code rather than by hand.

Nice to have

• Travel, airline, OTA, e-commerce or marketplace data experience - especially anything involving bookings, funnels or commission structures.
• Experience with multi-currency data and FX conversion in a reporting context.
• Streaming or near-real-time ingestion.
• BI tooling experience - Metabase, Looker, Power BI or similar - and an eye for making a metrics layer genuinely self-serve

What We Offer

• Generous and flexible annual leave allowance
• Health Insurance
• Paid Family Leave
• Hybrid Working