Lead Data Engineer
Better Collective A/S14 days ago
Niš, SerbiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own all Paid Media Insights data jobs, including freshness, cost, reliability, alerting, and incident response.
- Build and maintain the end-to-end user-level model joining ad platform spend and delivery with affiliate and operator revenue and CRM data.
- Own paid media source ingestion, schema changes, domain models, analyst-facing marts, and semantic definitions.
- Implement reverse ETL so conversion data reaches ad platforms and can influence bidding.
- Lead the handover of paid media jobs currently run by the central platform team.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through standards-setting, code reviews, technical guidance, unblocking, and engineer development.
- Shape the paid media data roadmap with leadership, analysts, and business teams, and represent the domain in platform discussions.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ownership of production data pipelines and end-to-end data domains, including operational reliability and incident response.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL, Python, dbt, Dagster, cloud data warehousing, and production-scale data systems.
- Ability to design and explain complex data systems involving attribution windows, late conversions, identity resolution, and changing source APIs.
- Experience providing technical leadership, reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and raising team-wide engineering standards.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with a central platform team while advocating for domain needs and standards.
- Ability to work closely with marketers and analysts and communicate data concepts to non-engineering stakeholders.
- Experience with paid media or attribution is a bonus.
- Production pipeline experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift is transferable.
Benefits
- Private health insurance.
- Sick leave is 100% paid.
- Canteen with free meals and drinks.
- Flexible working hours.
- Additional vacation days after two years with the company.
- Up-to-date equipment and entertainment facilities in a modern city-center office.
- Applications are accepted until 28th November, with an expected start date as soon as possible; applicants must submit an English CV and cover letter in PDF.
- The posting states that the role works with a central platform team but does not explicitly state a remote or hybrid arrangement.
About Better Collective A/S
Better Collective A/S builds and operates a portfolio of digital sports media, betting media, and esports/gaming communities, including Action Network, HLTV, and FUTBIN. It monetizes through advertising, affiliate partnerships with sportsbooks, and select subscriptions, serving fans and bettors seeking odds, analysis, and tools. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Copenhagen, it is dual-listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Copenhagen and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly visits.