Lead Data Platform Engineer(Python Stack)

As Europe's fastest-growing unicorn, we revolutionize eCommerce globally. Through strategic acquisitions, scaling initiatives, and cutting-edge technology, we're the top player in the industry. Following our recent acquisition of Perch - the leading US aggregator - and a successful Series D funding round led by Presight Captial, we’re aimed toward a $1 billion top-line business!

Your Role

As a Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering scalable, microservices - based applications on AWS, powering a data platform that processes billions of records and supports critical decision-making across the organization. Your day-to-day will involve collaborating with business stakeholders and product teams to translate complex requirements into secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions that handle massive data volumes. You’ll lead by example, mentoring a team of engineers, setting technical standards, and ensuring the platform remains robust, efficient, and future-ready.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Application Design and Development: Leading the design and implementation of microservices-based applications on AWS using services Lambda, SQS, ECS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
• Scalable System Design: Architect solutions that ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability while defending efficiency.
• Integration and APIs: Designing and developing RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services, including AI services.
• AI Integration: Designing and implementing solutions integrating AI models via APIs, such as AWS Bedrock, or large language models (LLMs). Leverage AI for automation, personalization, and enhanced user experiences.
• Leadership: Building, leading, managing, inspiring, and growing a team of engineers while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and diverse team environment.
• DevOps Collaboration: Working with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging for seamless deployment and system reliability.
• Security and Compliance: Implementing robust security measures and ensure compliance with data protection standards in cloud environments.
• Code Quality: Writing clean, testable, and maintainable code, conducting peer reviews to uphold code quality.
• Continuous Improvement: Staying up to date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies, especially in AI and cloud-native development.

Your Profile

To succeed in this role you:

• Have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on building cloud-native and AI-enhanced applications.
• Have 3+ years of experience managing and leading teams.
• Have expertise in AWS services and CloudFormation (e.g. Lambda functions, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway) or other equivalent services on other cloud platforms, focusing on designing and optimizing scalable solutions.
• Have strong knowledge of microservices architecture, RESTful API design, and event-driven systems.
• Have strong experience in Python and message queues and asynchronous processing (e.g., SQS, Celery, RabbitMQ).
• Have solid understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Are Familiar with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Have excellent communication and leadership skills to guide and mentor development teams.
• Have strong understanding of security best practices for application and AI development.

Preferably you:

• Have experience integrating AI/ML models using APIs such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or other LLM providers is a big plus
• Are familiar with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, or FAISS) and techniques like text embedding for AI applications.
• Have sound knowledge of observability-driven development

About Razor Group

We are revolutionizing the e-commerce world, reaching over $1 billion in value and over $700 million in revenue, with the backing of top investors like Black Rock, VPC, and Fortress, Apollo, 468 Capital, Rocket Internet. Along with Perch and our previous acquisitions of Factory14 in Spain, Valoreo in Latin America, and our German competitor Stryze, we now operate a catalogue of over 40,000 products across 3 continents and 10+ countries. Headquartered in Berlin, we are also present in Austin, Boston, Delhi NCR, Hangzhou, and Mexico City!