Lead Data Engineer

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting-edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential.


Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, we’ve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 850+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities.


At Lighthouse, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀


**What You Will Do**
As our
**Lead Data Engineer**
, you will be a key contributor in owning our core data assets as products. Acting as the bridge between technical teams and product managers, you will translate business needs into a data roadmap. Blending technical expertise with a product mindset, you will design and implement the scalable data solutions that power our products, ensuring our data effectively empowers its consumers across Lighthouse.


**Where you will have impact**

- Take ownership of key data products, becoming the go-to expert for its entire lifecycle, quality, and business applications.
- Design, implement, and maintain the scalable streaming and batch data pipelines that power our products and internal analytics.
- Collaborate directly with data consumers to understand their needs, gather requirements, and deliver robust data solutions.
- Deliver improvements in data quality, latency, and reliability.
- Be driven by a product-first mindset, focusing on delivering value and solving business problems through data.

**About Our Team**
The Data Products Team is the definitive source of truth for Lighthouse's data, sitting at the foundational layer of our entire data ecosystem.


Their core mission is to model and deliver high-quality, foundational data products that are essential ingredients for all downstream product features, machine learning models, and data science initiatives across the company:



- Data Modeling & Ownership: Defining and optimizing core data entities for product and analytical use.
- Pipeline Engineering: Building robust ETL/ELT pipelines to transform raw integrated data into trusted domains.
- Data Quality: Establishing standards and monitoring the health of all foundational data assets.

We are the core of the Lighthouse platform. We take ingested data from our Integrations teams, turn it into usable data products, and provide that clean output to both the Product Engineering and Data Science & Analytics teams. We rely on the Data Platform team for infrastructure support and tooling.


**What's in it for you?**

- Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
- Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
- Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
- Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
- Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
- Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
- Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
- Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
- Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

**Who You Are**

- Experience in a data engineering role, with a proven track record building scalable data pipelines.
- A product engineering mindset, with a focus on understanding business context and working closely with stakeholders to solve their data challenges.
- Professional proficiency in Python for data processing and pipeline development.
- Strong knowledge of cloud database solutions such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- Experience with microservice architectures and data streaming systems like Kafka or Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Fluency in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

**We welcome**

- Hands-on experience with our data stack, including dbt, Terraform, or Atlan.

**Technologies you will work with**
Mostly: GCP, Python, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Airflow, dbt, Terraform, Atlan (data governance tool), Soda


Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. We actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process and during employment to ensure all qualified candidates can participate fully. Our commitment to equality is not just a policy; it's part of our culture.


If you share our passion for innovation and teamwork, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the hospitality industry. At Lighthouse, our guiding light is to be an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. Not ticking every box? No problem We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you.


We value the unique perspective and talents that you bring, and we're excited to see how your light can shine within our team. We can't wait to meet you and explore how we can grow and succeed together, illuminating the path towards a brighter future for the industry.