About Us:

Rent the Runway (RTR)  is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100” most influential people in the world and as one of People magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

Galway Office 

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

About the Team

The Data Engineering team plays a pivotal role in RTR’s technology and analytics ecosystem. The team is responsible for the data warehouse, data ingestion and transformation pipelines, and the infrastructure that enables reliable, high-quality data to flow across the company.

The team partners closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Product, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering teams to ensure RTR’s data platform is trusted, scalable, well-governed, and able to support critical business decisions.

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager for Data Engineering at Rent the Runway, you will lead the team responsible for building, operating, and evolving RTR’s core data platform. You will combine strong engineering leadership with a deep understanding of data systems, data quality, platform reliability, and stakeholder needs.

You will be responsible for leading a team of talented data engineers, setting technical direction, driving delivery of strategic data initiatives, and ensuring our data warehouse, pipelines, models, and data platform infrastructure are reliable, scalable, secure, and well-governed.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building strong teams, partnering across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and leading data engineering work that has meaningful business impact. You will help shape how RTR captures, transforms, governs, and uses data across the organisation.

• Lead and develop a team of data engineers.
• Own delivery of key data engineering initiatives, from planning through execution.
• Drive the evolution of RTR’s data platform, including the data warehouse, pipelines, transformations, orchestration, and supporting infrastructure.
• Partner with Data Science, BI, ML, Product, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver trusted data solutions.
• Set priorities for the team, balancing strategic work, stakeholder needs, operational support, and technical debt.
• Promote strong data quality, governance, documentation, lineage, and ownership practices.
• Help the team build reliable data pipelines using tools such as dbt, Python, Prefect, Airflow, or similar.
• Ensure data systems are observable, supportable, and operated with strong production practices.
• Communicate clearly with technical teams, non-technical stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Build a team culture of ownership, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

About You

• You have experience leading engineers in data engineering, data platform, software engineering, or a related technical area.
• You understand modern data engineering practices, including ingestion, transformation, modelling, orchestration, data quality, and governance.
• You have experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, or similar.
• You are comfortable with SQL and understand how reliable analytical data models are built and maintained.
• You have worked with tools such as dbt, Python, Prefect, Airflow, Looker, Tableau, Fivetran, or similar.
• You can manage technical roadmaps, prioritise effectively, and deliver cross-functional projects.
• You communicate well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You care deeply about coaching engineers and supporting their career growth.
• You balance strategic delivery with operational excellence and support.
• Experience with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Terraform, or data observability is a plus.

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program  - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered. 
• Company wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
• Hybrid Work -This hybrid role requires 2-3 days per week in our Galway, Ireland office with the option to work 2 days remotely.

Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.

#LI-EM1

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimise operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimised consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are a key architect in developing, delivering and maintaining intelligent data infrastructure that powers advanced analytics. You are an experienced data engineer with strong ETL pipeline and dimensional modeling skills, who is ready to leverage AI as a powerful collaborator and brings a depth of knowledge to ensure it is employed effectively for the long-term health of our business systems. You are responsible for building complex data pipelines from the ground up, delivering data into and enhancing a database infrastructure that powers advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous data operations. You work across the organization, supporting and collaborating with our product teams, engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. In this context, you enhance and support our company’s cloud data architecture to support our products and data initiatives, for external clients as well as internal users.

Responsibilities

Core Data Infrastructure 

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT workflows that support both batch and streaming data using AWS primitives (e.g., S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Athena) 
• Architect and maintain cloud-native data platforms with automated ingestion, transformation, and governance pipelines using modern tools like DBT, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, and Databricks 
• Work with stakeholders, including the Product, BI, and Support teams, to assist with data-related technical challenges and support their data and infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering teams using analytics to predict data needs and proactively deliver solutions. 
• Assist in the optimization of data lake/lakehouse infrastructure, to support AI workloads and large-scale analytics. 

Governance & Collaboration 

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Develop and enforce data governance policies, including compliance monitoring and privacy protection. 
• Partner with Data Scientists to optimize data pipelines for model training, inference, and continuous learning workflows. 

Advanced Data Operations 

• Build self-healing data pipelines with AI-driven error detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation capabilities. 
• Implement intelligent data lineage tracking to automatically discover relationships between datasets and predict downstream impact of changes. 
• Create AI-assisted data discovery systems that help stakeholders find relevant datasets and understand data semantics through natural language interfaces. 
• Participate in on-call rotation, as needed.

AI-Enhanced Development

• Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to
• Accelerate development cycles, generate complex SQL queries, and automatically optimize data pipeline code. 
• Develop data quality monitoring, using anomaly detection and data profiling tools to identify issues, before they impact downstream systems. 
• Optimize pipeline orchestration, with ML to predict optimal scheduling, resource allocation, and failure recovery patterns.
• Generate and maintain living documentation that evolves with code changes. 

Leadership & Innovation 

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including both manual and AI-assisted requirements gathering, automated testing, and intelligent deployment strategies. 
• Mentor junior engineers on both traditional data engineering practices and effective use of AI development tools. 
• Lead tool evaluation and adoption for the data engineering team, establishing best practices for human-AI collaboration. 
• Drive innovation in data architecture by experimenting with emerging technologies.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
• Extensive experience in SQL RDBMS (SQLServer or similar) with dimensional modeling using star schema, and foundational data warehousing concepts
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue 
• Experience with DBT, Databricks or similar data platform tooling
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data and implementing data quality frameworks
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with understanding of prompt engineering, to enhance development productivity 
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data requirements, including feature stores, model versioning, and real-time inference pipelines

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in a SaaS or e-commerce environment with AI/ML products
• Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming 
• Familiarity with LLMOps and AI model deployment patterns in data infrastructure 
• Experience with AI-powered data tools such as automated data catalogs, intelligent monitoring systems, or AI-assisted query optimization
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting priorities and emerging technologies
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes 

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

Benefits 

• Medical, Dental and Psychology benefits 
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Competitive time off package with 25 Days of PTO, 8 Company-paid Holidays, 5 paid floating holidays (new in 2026!), 2 Wellness days and 1 Paid Volunteer Day 
• Voucher program for Transportation, Meals & Childcare 
• Remote Working Stipend: €40/month automatically applied in payroll
• Access to tools to support your wellbeing such as the Calm App and an Employee Assistance Program 
• Professional development stipend and learning and development offerings to help you build the skills and connections you need to move forward in your career. 
• Charitable contribution match per team member 

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimise operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimised consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are a key architect in developing, delivering and maintaining intelligent data infrastructure that powers advanced analytics. You are an experienced data engineer with strong ETL pipeline and dimensional modeling skills, who is ready to leverage AI as a powerful collaborator and brings a depth of knowledge to ensure it is employed effectively for the long-term health of our business systems. You are responsible for building complex data pipelines from the ground up, delivering data into and enhancing a database infrastructure that powers advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous data operations. You work across the organization, supporting and collaborating with our product teams, engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. In this context, you enhance and support our company’s cloud data architecture to support our products and data initiatives, for external clients as well as internal users.

Responsibilities

Core Data Infrastructure 

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT workflows that support both batch and streaming data using AWS primitives (e.g., S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Athena) 
• Architect and maintain cloud-native data platforms with automated ingestion, transformation, and governance pipelines using modern tools like DBT, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, and Databricks 
• Work with stakeholders, including the Product, BI, and Support teams, to assist with data-related technical challenges and support their data and infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering teams using analytics to predict data needs and proactively deliver solutions. 
• Assist in the optimization of data lake/lakehouse infrastructure, to support AI workloads and large-scale analytics. 

Governance & Collaboration 

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Develop and enforce data governance policies, including compliance monitoring and privacy protection. 
• Partner with Data Scientists to optimize data pipelines for model training, inference, and continuous learning workflows. 

Advanced Data Operations 

• Build self-healing data pipelines with AI-driven error detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation capabilities. 
• Implement intelligent data lineage tracking to automatically discover relationships between datasets and predict downstream impact of changes. 
• Create AI-assisted data discovery systems that help stakeholders find relevant datasets and understand data semantics through natural language interfaces. 
• Participate in on-call rotation, as needed.

AI-Enhanced Development

• Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to
• Accelerate development cycles, generate complex SQL queries, and automatically optimize data pipeline code. 
• Develop data quality monitoring, using anomaly detection and data profiling tools to identify issues, before they impact downstream systems. 
• Optimize pipeline orchestration, with ML to predict optimal scheduling, resource allocation, and failure recovery patterns.
• Generate and maintain living documentation that evolves with code changes. 

Leadership & Innovation 

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including both manual and AI-assisted requirements gathering, automated testing, and intelligent deployment strategies. 
• Mentor junior engineers on both traditional data engineering practices and effective use of AI development tools. 
• Lead tool evaluation and adoption for the data engineering team, establishing best practices for human-AI collaboration. 
• Drive innovation in data architecture by experimenting with emerging technologies.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
• Extensive experience in SQL RDBMS (SQLServer or similar) with dimensional modeling using star schema, and foundational data warehousing concepts
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue 
• Experience with DBT, Databricks or similar data platform tooling
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data and implementing data quality frameworks
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with understanding of prompt engineering, to enhance development productivity 
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data requirements, including feature stores, model versioning, and real-time inference pipelines

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in a SaaS or e-commerce environment with AI/ML products
• Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming 
• Familiarity with LLMOps and AI model deployment patterns in data infrastructure 
• Experience with AI-powered data tools such as automated data catalogs, intelligent monitoring systems, or AI-assisted query optimization
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting priorities and emerging technologies
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes 

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

Benefits 

• Medical coverage provided through Irish Life Health; premiums paid by the company 
• Life & disability insurance
• Pension plan with 5% company match
• Competitive time off package with 25 Days of PTO, 11 Company-paid holidays, 2 Wellness days and 1 Paid Volunteer Day 
• Access to tools to support your wellbeing such as the Calm App and an Employee Assistance Program 
• €50/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Professional development stipend and learning and development offerings to help you build the skills and connections you need to move forward in your career. 
• Charitable contribution match per team member  

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimise operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimised consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are a key architect in developing, delivering and maintaining intelligent data infrastructure that powers advanced analytics. You are an experienced data engineer with strong ETL pipeline and dimensional modeling skills, who is ready to leverage AI as a powerful collaborator and brings a depth of knowledge to ensure it is employed effectively for the long-term health of our business systems. You are responsible for building complex data pipelines from the ground up, delivering data into and enhancing a database infrastructure that powers advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous data operations. You work across the organization, supporting and collaborating with our product teams, engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. In this context, you enhance and support our company’s cloud data architecture to support our products and data initiatives, for external clients as well as internal users.

Responsibilities

Core Data Infrastructure 

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT workflows that support both batch and streaming data using AWS primitives (e.g., S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Athena) 
• Architect and maintain cloud-native data platforms with automated ingestion, transformation, and governance pipelines using modern tools like DBT, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, and Databricks 
• Work with stakeholders, including the Product, BI, and Support teams, to assist with data-related technical challenges and support their data and infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering teams using analytics to predict data needs and proactively deliver solutions. 
• Assist in the optimization of data lake/lakehouse infrastructure, to support AI workloads and large-scale analytics. 

Governance & Collaboration 

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Develop and enforce data governance policies, including compliance monitoring and privacy protection. 
• Partner with Data Scientists to optimize data pipelines for model training, inference, and continuous learning workflows. 

Advanced Data Operations 

• Build self-healing data pipelines with AI-driven error detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation capabilities. 
• Implement intelligent data lineage tracking to automatically discover relationships between datasets and predict downstream impact of changes. 
• Create AI-assisted data discovery systems that help stakeholders find relevant datasets and understand data semantics through natural language interfaces. 
• Participate in on-call rotation, as needed.

AI-Enhanced Development

• Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to
• Accelerate development cycles, generate complex SQL queries, and automatically optimize data pipeline code. 
• Develop data quality monitoring, using anomaly detection and data profiling tools to identify issues, before they impact downstream systems. 
• Optimize pipeline orchestration, with ML to predict optimal scheduling, resource allocation, and failure recovery patterns.
• Generate and maintain living documentation that evolves with code changes. 

Leadership & Innovation 

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including both manual and AI-assisted requirements gathering, automated testing, and intelligent deployment strategies. 
• Mentor junior engineers on both traditional data engineering practices and effective use of AI development tools. 
• Lead tool evaluation and adoption for the data engineering team, establishing best practices for human-AI collaboration. 
• Drive innovation in data architecture by experimenting with emerging technologies.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
• Extensive experience in SQL RDBMS (SQLServer or similar) with dimensional modeling using star schema, and foundational data warehousing concepts
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue 
• Experience with DBT, Databricks or similar data platform tooling
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data and implementing data quality frameworks
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with understanding of prompt engineering, to enhance development productivity 
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data requirements, including feature stores, model versioning, and real-time inference pipelines

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in a SaaS or e-commerce environment with AI/ML products
• Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming 
• Familiarity with LLMOps and AI model deployment patterns in data infrastructure 
• Experience with AI-powered data tools such as automated data catalogs, intelligent monitoring systems, or AI-assisted query optimization
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting priorities and emerging technologies
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes 

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

Benefits 

• Medical, Dental and Psychology benefits 
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Competitive time off package with 25 Days of PTO, 8 Company-paid Holidays, 5 paid floating holidays (new in 2026!), 2 Wellness days and 1 Paid Volunteer Day 
• Voucher program for Transportation, Meals & Childcare 
• Remote Working Stipend: €40/month automatically applied in payroll
• Access to tools to support your wellbeing such as the Calm App and an Employee Assistance Program 
• Professional development stipend and learning and development offerings to help you build the skills and connections you need to move forward in your career. 
• Charitable contribution match per team member 

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimise operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimised consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you are a key architect in developing, delivering and maintaining intelligent data infrastructure that powers advanced analytics. You are an experienced data engineer with strong ETL pipeline and dimensional modeling skills, who is ready to leverage AI as a powerful collaborator and brings a depth of knowledge to ensure it is employed effectively for the long-term health of our business systems. You are responsible for building complex data pipelines from the ground up, delivering data into and enhancing a database infrastructure that powers advanced analytics, AI-driven decision-making, and autonomous data operations. You work across the organization, supporting and collaborating with our product teams, engineers, data scientists, and data analysts. In this context, you enhance and support our company’s cloud data architecture to support our products and data initiatives, for external clients as well as internal users.

Responsibilities

Core Data Infrastructure 

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT workflows that support both batch and streaming data using AWS primitives (e.g., S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Athena) 
• Architect and maintain cloud-native data platforms with automated ingestion, transformation, and governance pipelines using modern tools like DBT, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, and Databricks 
• Work with stakeholders, including the Product, BI, and Support teams, to assist with data-related technical challenges and support their data and infrastructure needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Engineering teams using analytics to predict data needs and proactively deliver solutions. 
• Assist in the optimization of data lake/lakehouse infrastructure, to support AI workloads and large-scale analytics. 

Governance & Collaboration 

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Develop and enforce data governance policies, including compliance monitoring and privacy protection. 
• Partner with Data Scientists to optimize data pipelines for model training, inference, and continuous learning workflows. 

Advanced Data Operations 

• Build self-healing data pipelines with AI-driven error detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation capabilities. 
• Implement intelligent data lineage tracking to automatically discover relationships between datasets and predict downstream impact of changes. 
• Create AI-assisted data discovery systems that help stakeholders find relevant datasets and understand data semantics through natural language interfaces. 
• Participate in on-call rotation, as needed.

AI-Enhanced Development

• Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to
• Accelerate development cycles, generate complex SQL queries, and automatically optimize data pipeline code. 
• Develop data quality monitoring, using anomaly detection and data profiling tools to identify issues, before they impact downstream systems. 
• Optimize pipeline orchestration, with ML to predict optimal scheduling, resource allocation, and failure recovery patterns.
• Generate and maintain living documentation that evolves with code changes. 

Leadership & Innovation 

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including both manual and AI-assisted requirements gathering, automated testing, and intelligent deployment strategies. 
• Mentor junior engineers on both traditional data engineering practices and effective use of AI development tools. 
• Lead tool evaluation and adoption for the data engineering team, establishing best practices for human-AI collaboration. 
• Drive innovation in data architecture by experimenting with emerging technologies.

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines
• Extensive experience in SQL RDBMS (SQLServer or similar) with dimensional modeling using star schema, and foundational data warehousing concepts
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Redshift, Athena, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue 
• Experience with DBT, Databricks or similar data platform tooling
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data and implementing data quality frameworks
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar), with understanding of prompt engineering, to enhance development productivity 
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data requirements, including feature stores, model versioning, and real-time inference pipelines

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in a SaaS or e-commerce environment with AI/ML products
• Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Kafka, Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming 
• Familiarity with LLMOps and AI model deployment patterns in data infrastructure 
• Experience with AI-powered data tools such as automated data catalogs, intelligent monitoring systems, or AI-assisted query optimization
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with shifting priorities and emerging technologies
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes 

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum 

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

At Rithum you will:

• Partner with the leading brands and retailers.
• Connect with passionate professionals who will help support your goals.
• Participate in an inclusive, welcoming work atmosphere.
• Achieve work-life balance through remote-first working conditions, generous time off, and wellness days.
• Receive industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits.

Benefits 

• Medical coverage provided through Irish Life Health; premiums paid by the company 
• Life & disability insurance
• Pension plan with 5% company match
• Competitive time off package with 25 Days of PTO, 11 Company-paid holidays, 2 Wellness days and 1 Paid Volunteer Day 
• Access to tools to support your wellbeing such as the Calm App and an Employee Assistance Program 
• €50/month Remote work stipend for internet
• Professional development stipend and learning and development offerings to help you build the skills and connections you need to move forward in your career. 
• Charitable contribution match per team member  

Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law for qualified applicants. If you require assistance during the interview process due to a medical condition or need support accessing our website or completing the application process, please reach out to us by completing the Accommodations Request Form. Your comfort and accessibility are important to us, and we're here to ensure a seamless experience as you explore opportunities with our team.

Senior Data Engineer (Perm, Ireland, Hybrid)

This is a permanent full time opportunity for those based in Ireland. This role will require travel to Germany.

About Nearform

Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.

Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.

Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.  

As part of our Engineering function, you will work closely with clients to translate complex business requirements into innovative digital products. Whether you are a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, or DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with distributed teams, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, high-performance applications. Our Nearform engineers are known for building high quality, scalable solutions that solve real world problems.

About the Senior Data Engineer role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Nearform your main task will be designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms, pipelines, and warehouses using SQL, Python, Spark, and other relevant technologies. You will play a key role in building efficient data solutions, optimizing performance, and ensuring seamless data integration. However as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects your responsibilities may also include:

• Designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Developing and maintaining data platforms and warehousing solutions to support analytics and business intelligence needs.
• Implementing scalable data storage solutions and ensuring high availability and performance.
• Enhancing performance in data processing workflows for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data engineering solutions.
• Ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance across all systems.
• Supporting CI/CD processes for data pipeline deployments and implementing best practices in DevOps for data workflows.
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing best practices in version control, automation, and testing.
• Assisting with defining structured source code management and deployment processes.
• Working with and supporting Technical Leaders in project execution and timely delivery.
• Collaborating with client teams.

What we are looking for in this person

• Significant experience delivering at a Senior Engineer level, specialising in Data engineering. Our Seniors typically have at least 6 years’ commercial experience.
• Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment.
• Practical experience and knowledge of developing real-world solutions.
• Extensive hands-on experience in SQL, Python, and Spark for large-scale data processing.
• Databricks experience 
• Strong expertise in data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar).
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, or similar).
• Deep understanding of ETL processes, data modeling, and schema design.
• Strong experience with cloud-based data solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data lake architectures.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD for data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Deep understanding of versioning control tools - e.g. Git.
• Experience building software collaboratively using pull requests and code reviews.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Must hold valid passport for travel.
• Travel, this role will require up to 1 week per month onsite in Germany.

Benefits & Perks

• Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance. 
• Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem! 
• Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 24 days plus public holidays. We also offer sick leave, marriage leave and many more.
• Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join.
• Training and Development Allowance - We understand the importance of continuously learning so we offer an allowance of up to €1000 you can use to upskill yourself.
• Healthcare - It’s important to always take care of your health, so we offer additional private healthcare here at Nearform. If you wish to learn more about the plan offered feel free to reach out to our team.
• Pension & Insurances - We offer a pension match of up to 5% and Income Protection and Death in Service for peace of mind.

Our Interview Process

Talent Call (30 mins via Zoom)
An introductory conversation with a member of our Talent Team to learn more about your background, experience, and career goals. We'll also provide a high-level overview of Nearform and answer any questions you may have. This step helps us assess initial alignment.

Technical Assessment (1 hour via Zoom)
A live coding challenge with one of our trained interviewers. You'll be asked to build a working solution to a problem via screen sharing, demonstrating your data engineering expertise, problem-solving ability, and coding best practices in a real-time environment.

Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins via Zoom)
A conversation with a Hiring Manager focused on your approach to teamwork, client collaboration, and problem-solving in an enterprise development setting. We'll also share more details about Nearform and the potential projects you may join.

There may also be an additional interview with the client depending on the project

Ready to Join Us?

If you're passionate about building high-quality applications, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation in enterprise development, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now via our careers page at Nearform and be part of a team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence. 

If you require any adjustments to the interview process as part of your application, please let someone from our Talent Team know so they can help.