Data Engineer - Data Warehouse & Analytics

Lensa.com is one of the biggest recruitment and career platforms on the United States market, with 20+ million registered users. The company is founded and managed by Hungarian professionals who introduced and developed the well known Profession.hu.

Our product represents the future of career development: job search that puts people first while reducing the time and cost of talent acquisition. Using machine learning, we instantly match job seekers with positions that fit their skills, career goals and personalities. We make the world better, by placing every job seeker in the best possible positions for them. We are proud of our 4.3+ Trustpilot score!

Lensa is dedicated to achieving its business goals with cutting-edge, scalable technologies. With teams in multiple U.S. locations and a talented crew of developers, product managers and data scientists in Budapest, we are working every day to share our transformative career technology with the world.

If you're interested in joining our journey and contributing to our success as part of our dynamic international team, we look forward to receiving your application!

About the role

Lensa's data warehouse is the analytical backbone of the company — a Redshift warehouse of roughly 2,000 tables, with around 400 tables feeding the reporting layer, plus product analytics and ML training data. As a Data Engineer on this team, you will design intuitive data models and reliable transformation workflows that let stakeholders across the company leverage data effectively. A major part of the role is modernizing our warehouse architecture: rebuilding legacy ETL as layered, tested, documented models — with dbt as the target framework.

We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about intuitive data models, expert in SQL, and experienced in evolving a warehouse without disrupting the business that runs on it.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement dimensional data models (star schemas, slowly changing dimensions) serving reporting, analytics, and ML use cases

• Build, optimize, and maintain robust ELT workflows feeding the data warehouse and downstream analytical layers

• Refactor legacy ETL into layered, tested, documented transformation models

• Own warehouse performance and cost: distribution and sort key design, workload management, materialization strategy

• Establish data quality as code — automated tests, freshness checks, and contracts with upstream data producers

• Document models, metric definitions, and naming conventions so analysts can self-serve

• Work with Data Scientists, Analysts to translate business requirements into scalable data models

• Identify technical risks in the analytical layer and drive improvements in reliability and design

What You Bring

• 5+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering with a data warehouse at the center of your work

• Expert SQL: window functions, CTE-heavy transformations, query plan analysis, and performance tuning on an MPP warehouse (Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery)

• Strong dimensional modeling fundamentals and demonstrable data intuition

• Experience with dbt or a comparable transformation framework

• Experience maintaining or migrating a legacy warehouse in production

• Working Python for pipeline tooling and automation

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Solid communication skills in English

Bonus Points

• A dbt migration you've driven — from stored procedures, hand-rolled ETL, or another framework

• Data governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality frameworks

• Exposure to the lake side: S3, Glue Data Catalog, Iceberg, Spark

• Experience designing analytical layers or building a warehouse architecture from scratch

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours with home office opportunity

• Medicover health insurance

• Company lunch every day in the office

• In-house gym in the office

• Exciting programs and team-building events

• Recreation room with darts, ping pong, foosball, XBox, and other games

• Modern and fancy office in Buda close to Széll Kálmán tér

If you prefer to work in a startup environment but still a stable, fast growing company, and you’re interested in the role please do not hesitate to apply!