Data Engineer

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

About the Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to scale our Data Team and help us improve our Data Platform & Data Integration processes. This role’s mission will be to:

• Ensure we are able to keep all data in our Data Warehouse updated and accessible for transformation and analysis

• Partner with the Analytics Engineers and Data Analysts to support the requirements of the company in terms of reliability, quality and efficiency

• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from different sources and integrate it in the Data Warehouse following best practices

What you will do

• Take charge of the required data processing while ensuring sustainable and organic growth of our data platform and infrastructure

• Keep our data infrastructure up to date and working like a clock

• Integrate datasets from different sources

• Support our Data Analysts & Analytics Engineers to get the right data to build dashboards and complex analytical models

• Support Analytics Engineering teams in defining the best approaches for data modelling

• Use data to investigate and help resolve issues in our product or processes

• In collaboration with our Data Governance team, proactively suggest improvements to data security, reliability, efficiency and quality

• Champion a healthy data culture throughout the organisation

What you need:

• 3+ years of relevant experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Big-Data Engineer or similar role working with large-scale data systems

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, in English

• You are a Master in SQL, optimising queries for performance, scalability, and ease of maintenance

• You feel comfortable querying different types of databases (PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake) and have knowledge of different AWS services

• You’re accustomed to designing and implementing complex architectures with a constant eye on their future evolution while taking into account the needs of multiple users

• You have experience building data pipelines using Python

• You have experience integrating data from multiple sources including databases, product tracking, and APIs. You get excited by seeing your jobs run like clockwork

• You have an instinct for automation

• You have the desire to work in an international multi-location environment with highly engaged individuals

Bonus points for…

• Experience with AWS Redshift or other distributed systems (Snowflake, Big Query, Hadoop, Vertica, Exasol, etc.). Basic DBA skills

• Experience in web analytics and web tracking and event-based analytics tools

• Experience with workflow managers (Airflow, etc.)

• Experience with dbt.

• Experience in queue and streaming systems (SNS, Kafka, Firehose…)

What do we offer?

• Competitive compensation including equity in the company

• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge

• Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance depending on your location

• "Flexible compensation plan" to help you diversify and increase the net salary

• Unforgettable Perk events including to travel to one of our hubs

• A mental health support tool for your wellbeing

• Exponential growth opportunities

Our Vision is for a world where Perk serves as the platform for human connection in-real-life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our Barcelona hub. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in-real-life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base—and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk [dot] com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.