Senior Data Engineer (all genders)

We love the magic of memory keeping

At Journi, we’re on a mission to build the world’s most-downloaded printing app.

With over 10 million users worldwide, we help people turn their favorite moments into beautifully designed Photo Books and Prints. Our smart AI makes the process fast, simple, and joyful, so our users can spend less time editing and more time reliving their best stories.

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to own our data warehouse and ETL pipelines, and make our data something the whole company can trust. You'll report directly to our CTO, work closely with our data analysts, and play a key role in shaping how data powers decisions across Journi!

🚀 What you'll do

• Own the architecture of our Redshift warehouse and ETL pipelines, and make it the trusted source for core business data. As our first dedicated data engineer, you'll shape how our data architecture evolves.

• Work directly with Marketing, Finance, Product, and Customer Happiness, together with our data analysts, to turn their questions into the right data models and connect new data sources.

• Implement data transformations that support changing key metrics definitions, such as revenue attribution.

• Build data marts that keep dashboards fast, and an internal MCP server that gives AI agents access to reliable, well-documented data.

• Keep our pipelines reliable, with monitoring that alerts teams when data is late or incomplete.

• Give and receive feedback, and bring your own expertise to the team.

🎒 Your bag of tricks

• 5+ years in data or backend engineering, including 2+ years owning a data warehouse or ETL pipelines end-to-end.

• Excellent SQL and Python, with strong experience optimizing query performance on columnar warehouses like Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery.

• You've built reliable pipelines from production databases and third-party APIs, with testing, monitoring, and alerting; you handle customer data with care, and you own it when they break.

• You know dimensional modeling and the trade-offs between data tools and architectures, including when to keep things simple.

• Solid analytics understanding: you know how metrics like revenue and conversion are defined and used, and why numbers differ between data sources.

• You communicate clearly. You explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and data limitations to analysts, marketing, finance, and leadership, set expectations, and push back when data quality is at risk.

• You are permitted to work in the EU/Austria (OR have a university degree in Data/Computer Science, which is required to apply for an Austrian work permit)

• You are able to relocate to / based in Vienna - the world’s most liveable city!

🔥 Nice-to-haves

• Experience working across multiple data platforms at scale: connecting product analytics, backend data, and marketing sources to close gaps and improve data quality

• Experience running workshops with leadership in a startup or scale-up context

✨ What we offer

A happy team makes for a happy workplace. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without our team, and that’s why we offer:

• A fair annual gross salary starting at € 82,000. Our final offer depends on your experience and qualifications.

Plus, a bunch of awesome social benefits, such as:

• Vacation goals: 25 days off per year, plus 1 extra day for every year you stick around (up to 5 extra days!)

• Work your way: enjoy a hybrid working model with 40% home office days and flexible hours (core hours: 10am-4pm Mo-Th; and 10am-2pm Fri)

• Daily fuel: breakfast, Italian-style coffee, tea, and fresh daily lunches in our in-house eatery, with options for most dietary preferences

• Go places: we reimburse your public transport card for Vienna

• Team first: join our yearly team-building Journi to exciting destinations

• Mac your life easier: with a company MacBook, also available for personal use

• Boost your German: weekly in-house lessons in small groups

• Special treatment: enjoy a premium membership on all Journi products

... and more!

📫 What to expect after you apply

1. Intro call with the Talent Acquisition team (30 min)

2. General Interview (45 min.)

3. Technical interview (1 h)

4. Hiring manager talk (30 min.)

5. Final interview with the Leadership team (1 h)

Please include your CV and cover letter with your application.

About us

Everyone is welcome at Journi

No matter your background, identity, or story, if you’re exceptional at what you do, there’s a place for you here. We believe that an inclusive team is a stronger team, and we want everyone to feel respected and understood from the moment they join us.

Turning digital memories into something you can hold

Our goal is simple: to make it effortless for you to preserve the memories you cherish. By combining smart technology with a love for design, we turn "photo chaos" into high-quality keepsakes in seconds. You capture the moments; we help you keep them forever.

A global team with heart

More than 10 million people around the world already use Journi to create their Photo Books, and we’re just getting started. We’re a global team of 100+ people united in Vienna, thinking big and building with care. We work hard, but we never take ourselves too seriously. We keep things informal, friendly, and always on our users' side.

If you’re excited to solve meaningful challenges and shape a product loved by millions, we’d love to hear from you. 🌟