Senior Data Engineer (all genders)

You as part of the tonies :

Tonies has a data-driven and insight-supported business model and thus focuses strongly on a successful data journey. The Data & Insights team is on a mission to set up a scalable environment, which includes enabled teams, high quality data products, deep business / consumer understanding and data driven content creation.

As our Senior Data Engineer, you will join our Data Platform & AI team where you will amplify the value that our company derives from our data by building and maintaining our data architecture, building and optimizing our data collection flows, and enhancing our data quality and reliability.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include :

• Collaboration and support : you will work closely with other data professionals and business stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide the required data
• Building and optimizing data pipelines : you will design, implement and operate ETL and ELT pipelines to enable other data professionals to build impactful dashboards and machine learning models on top of your data
• Ensuring data quality and consistency : you will implement data validation checks in your ETL jobs, promote data quality within our team and the company, and support data contract negotiations
• Building and maintaining data and ML APIs : you will design, implement and operate APIs that expose data sets and machine learning predictions to downstream use cases
• Coaching and mentoring : you will mentor other data engineers and help them grow in their role

What we are looking for :

Engineering mindset : you are used to following software engineering and devops practices like automated testing, monitoring, alarming, coding principles (e.

g. DRY, KISS), code reviews etc.

• Professional experience : you have 5+ years of experience working as a data engineer building and maintaining data architectures
• Business acumen : you have an interest in the bigger picture, aiming to understand how your work is helping the business and how you can maximize your impact
• Tool experience : you have extensive working experience with the modern data stack, i.e. ELT, and can quickly become productive with our tools (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran) and environment (on premise, AWS)
• Programming experience : your Python and SQL code is on expert level, i.e. comprehensive, well tested, easy to read, and highly efficient;

documentation of the entire development process is a must for you

People skills : you make it a habit to continuously improve your work and your collaboration with your colleagues, care deeply for the experience of your users, are highly effective when working autonomously, and value feedback highly

Why tonies?

• Global Teamwork : We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
• Come as you are : This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
• Mobility : Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
• Enhanced Security : Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
• Rest & Time Off : Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve.

After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).

Flexible Working : Equipped with individual equipment, you can work remotely for up to 5 days in consultation with your team - depending on your area of responsibility.

And if you're up for a workation, you can work from abroad for up to 4 weeks per year with us.

• Continuous Learning : Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
• Language Learning & Relaxation : Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
• Discounts : Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.

Good to know :

As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender.

Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Charlotte Angerhausen

Junior Recruiter & HR Generalist

About us

tonies is the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children with more than 7 million Tonieboxes and 88 million Tonies sold.

The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach.

Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes more than 1,100 Tonies figurines in several languages.