Remote Senior Data Engineer (AI/ML) (m/f/d)

Join Founderful as a Remote Senior Data Engineer. This full‑time role focuses on building scalable data pipelines, powering our optimization engine, and shipping end‑to‑end real‑world features.

Location: Remote in Germany, UK, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Belgium

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Product & Engineering

Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie helps hoteliers worldwide achieve optimal pricing. By analyzing internal hotel data and market trends, our state‑of‑the‑art algorithm recommends pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates. We serve customers across the US, Canada, Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, the UK, and more.

As a Data Engineer you’ll design scalable data pipelines, power our optimization engine and forecasting, and ship real‑world features end‑to‑end.

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• Collaborate with a Product Manager and a talented team of ML and Backend Engineers.
  
• Evolve our architecture to seamlessly scale with an increasing number of users, features, and data.
  
• Partner closely with Product and Design teams, taking full ownership of projects from conception through post‑deployment.
  
• Cultivate a strong engineering organization and vibrant development culture.
  

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• 5+ years of professional Python experience, ideally in data engineering, backend, or ML infrastructure roles.
  
• Strong experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, especially using Dagster.
  
• Solid experience in dbt: modelling, testing, documentation, and performance optimization.
  
• Strong working knowledge of Snowflake, Databricks, and data warehousing concepts.
  
• Strong working knowledge of AWS Aurora/RDS (Postgres).
  
• Help evolve our data platform to handle rapidly scaling users, datasets, and feature complexity.
  
• Familiarity with essential data libraries (pandas/polars, NumPy) and working with large datasets.
  
• Strong understanding of software design principles.
  
• Analytical mindset with interest in statistics, optimization, and data‑driven problem solving.
  
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.
  
• High ownership mentality that drives projects to completion.
  
• A true team player, egoless and empathetic, thriving in a collaborative environment.
  
• Serve as an Individual Contributor reporting to the RM Engine Engineering Manager, influencing our data and architectural direction.
  
• Fluent in English, able to engage in technical discussions with ease.
  
• Based in the European Time Zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2) to align with our team's schedules.
  
• We embrace diversity and are excited to see the unique contributions you’ll bring to our team!
  

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• Located near Mannheim, Germany (bonus points!).
  
• Hands‑on experience with:
  
  
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  • MongoDB/DocumentDB, DynamoDB
    
  • Databricks (for GenAI use cases)
    
  • Cube.dev
    
  • IaC (OpenTofu/Terraform)
    
  • Django/FastAPI
    
  • Celery & RabbitMQ
    
  • DataDog
    
  • Optimization libraries (SciPy, etc.)
    
  
  
  

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• Remote‑First Model: Work flexibly from anywhere; optional co‑working and office access in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney.
  
• One Team, One Vision, One Goal: Collaborative culture with high team morale (9.3 rating).
  
• Epic Team Gatherings: Annual global networking and brainstorming week, plus regular office hangouts.
  
• Growth and Development: Lifelong learning with up to three extra days off per year for skill development.
  
• Five Years = Five Weeks: Additional five weeks of bonus vacation after five years of service.
  
• Birthday Celebrations: Take the day off—celebrate your birthday guilt‑free.
  
• Flexible Hours: Work‑life balance with adaptable scheduling.
  
• Wellbeing Matters: Access to Headspace for meditation and BetterHelp for online therapy support.