Staff Data Engineer

<p>ABOUT WEROAD: CONNECTING PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND STORIES</p><p>Founded in 2017, WeRoad is a fast-growing startup that is disrupting the travel industry in Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and the USA. With 200 team members and 4K+ Travel Coordinators, we&apos;re a community of travelers who turn every trip into a life-changing experience. We connect like-minded millennials and send them on adventures to 1000+ destinations worldwide. We&apos;re on a mission to design and deliver experiences worth living and sharing, through rewriting the rules of the travel industry.</p><p><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></p><p>JOB TITLE: Staff/Lead Data Engineer</p><p>LOCATION: Full Remote or Hybrid (Milan).</p><p>TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent, full-time</p><p>SALARY RANGE: €60,000 – €75,000</p><p>As Data Engineering Staff/Lead, you&apos;ll be a hands-on leader — you&apos;ll write code, review architecture, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with a small, senior Data Engineering team (1–2 engineers) on the evolution of WeRoad&apos;s data architecture: the BigQuery warehouse, the dbt transformation and semantic layers, and the pipelines that turn raw data into trusted, self-service insight across every market. You&apos;ll report to the Director of Data Engineering &amp; AI and work hand in hand with the wider Data &amp; BI team, Product, and business stakeholders.</p><p>It&apos;s a small, high-leverage team, so this is a player-coach role by design: you&apos;ll set the technical direction, standards, and roadmap, but you&apos;ll also be in the code and in the pipelines yourself whenever it counts. You&apos;ll take our data platform from solid foundations to best-in-class: a restructured warehouse and semantic layer, near-real-time serverless ingestion, dashboards-as-code, and AI woven through both how we build and what we ship.</p><h3>What you&apos;ll do:</h3><ul><li>Lead our Data Engineering team (1–2 engineers) — owning delivery, quality, and career development.</li><li>Own and evolve WeRoad&apos;s data architecture: the layered BigQuery warehouse (raw → marts → serving), the dbt transformation layer, and the semantic layer that defines our metrics.</li><li>Own the ingestion and orchestration stack — Airflow, dlt, and the move to serverless CDC — and the reliability, quality, and observability of our data pipelines.</li><li>Own the self-service BI and reporting toolkit (Tableau, Metabase, and our move to Lightdash / dashboards-as-code) so stakeholders can trust and explore their own data.</li><li>Establish and maintain data governance: data quality, lineage, documentation, PII and access controls, and self-service standards.</li><li>Drive AI across the team — AI-assisted engineering and production AI data pipelines — and its adoption as a standard practice.</li><li>Partner with the Director of Data Engineering & AI, the Data & BI team, Product, and business stakeholders to translate company priorities into a data roadmap.</li></ul><p>What you&apos;ll bring to the table:</p><ul><li>5+ years in data engineering / analytics engineering in fast-growing product companies, including designing and evolving cloud data warehouses and pipelines (BigQuery / GCP a strong plus)</li><li>Experience leading and mentoring engineers — you know when to delegate, when to manage, and when to be hands-on (it&apos;s a small, senior team).</li><li>Strong SQL and hands-on expertise with dbt, modern ELT / ingestion (dlt or similar), and workflow orchestration (Airflow).</li><li>Experience with BI and dashboarding (Tableau, Metabase, Lightdash or similar) and building a semantic / metrics layer on top of the warehouse.</li><li>A track record of establishing data governance — quality, lineage, documentation, PII and access management, and self-service.</li><li>Demonstrable use of AI-assisted engineering and AI in data pipelines, and driving its adoption across a team.</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li><li>Fluent English; comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-market, remote-first environment.</li></ul><p>You will love working at WeRoad if you...</p><p>What we can offer</p><ul><li>Performance-based bonus – A discretionary annual variable bonus, based on performance and company results.</li><li>A free WeRoad trip every year – Choose your dream destination with €1,400/year travel discount or travel even more as a Travel Coordinator.</li><li>Trust-based holidays – We believe performance is driven by impact, not by hours at a desk. You are encouraged to take the time you need to recharge, beyond contractual minimums, within shared guidelines.</li><li>Opportunities to learn – We invest in your growth with training and learning opportunities.</li><li>New parent support – €3,600/year for 3 years after birth or adoption (or prorated if your child is under 3 when you start at WeRoad).</li><li>Extra benefits – Meal vouchers (€8/day – when applicable), a €1,000 bonus for your wedding or civil union, and a one-off bonus when you hit 5 years with us.</li><li>Fun – A vibrant co-working space, team buildings and meet-ups.</li><li>Hybrid working – Flexible working, and we support you to work from your destination of choice up to 1 month per year.</li><li>Ready to apply?... WeRoad is an equal opportunity employer...</p>