Recent Graduate 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 700+ 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

We are looking for a Recent Graduate Data Engineer who is passionate about scalable data architectures, complex data transformations, and handling large data streams on the fly, and wants to see their work translated into real life applications that impact 100.000’s of hotels worldwide.

Where you will have impact

• Research and test Data processing methodologies, tools and frameworks
• Implement streaming and batch data processing pipelines
• Clean, analyse and extract datasets from external sources
• Guarantee data integrity and quality by extending our logging, monitoring and outlier detection systems
• Deploy and monitor applications in a reproducible and scalable way
• Experiment, think about and take ownership of a piece of our tech stack/infrastructure and find ways to improve it
• Provide support to your team members and other teams in the company. We have a very open and flat structure and have a very short feedback loop on both internal and customer questions

About our team

The Lighthouse Data Engineering team is the gatekeeper to our vast datasets. Its mission is to reliably transform, integrate and store the numerous data sources that power our BI products. Some datasets are acquired by web scraping or API integrations, others are pushed to us by external vendors. Our main dataset holds 3 trillion (yes that’s 12 zeros) hotel rates. The team works in close collaboration with our Product Integrations Managers, as well as a highly talented group of software engineers and devops engineers to drive initiatives forward.Today we process billions of data points and +100TB of data on a daily basis, containing hotels' pricing information, search data, hotel bookings, etc. All of that using modern technologies. Being a growth company enables us to regularly attract new and interesting datasets, which can unlock new product directions. 

What's in it for you?

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Private pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

• Bachelor or Master degree in a software engineering field
• Affinity in working with data
• You set a high bar for yourself, and expect others to do the same. You’ll find we have an exceptionally talented team and are constantly looking for the best people to join
• You are passionate about what you do. What unites us is our passion for technology and applying it to solve hard problems.
• You are creative, entrepreneurial and open to innovation. We strongly believe that everything can be improved. We expect you to think and learn about new technologies, and take initiative to try and suggest new things
• You are a critical thinker who understands that perfect is the enemy of the good. We don’t over-engineer, but we do whatever it takes to achieve our goals.
• You work well in a team, but don’t mind getting your hands dirty. You’ll quickly learn that we have a very open culture where everyone can be reached out to for help, ideas, feedback and much more. But everyone takes responsibility for their own work.
• Fluent in English

We welcome

• Experience writing Python code
• Experience with any cloud platform
• Fluency in SQL
• Good data engineering practices, e.g. data checking and analysis, logging, re-running transformations, visualization skills

Technologies you will work with

GCP, Python, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Airflow, dbt, dataflow, Kafka

(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

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. 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.

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.