Data Engineer

Welcome to New Black - we are looking for a Data Engineer ready for a mission!

As our Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining the data backbone of our platform - ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient data flows that power decisions, insights, and innovation across New Black.

About New Black

We are just a bunch of NERDS, transforming the world of (e)commerce with our truly unique Contextual Commerce platform, called EVA. Our purpose is to help globally operating brands and retailers to become adaptive to change.

EVA is the engine that powers digital retail solutions, a secure, cloud-based platform that is set up to improve the consumer experience. We facilitate flexible infrastructure, enable digital transformation, and help our customers deliver a true unified experience and functionality to their customers faster and smarter. We work for leading brands and retailers such as Rituals, Kiko Milan, Dyson, G-Star, and many more.

Our Philosophy

New Black, is a company like no other. That is a promise.

• NEW BLACK believes work is more than compensation; we embrace holacracy to foster collaboration, aligning as a team without rigid reporting lines for agility and responsiveness.
• NEW BLACK is dedicated to hard work and continuous improvement, viewing success as a shared responsibility and striving for excellence.
• NEW BLACK is more than a software company; we are a next-generation platform transforming (e)commerce, filled with passionate people who love what we do.
• NEW BLACK is ambitious; we are profitable and fully bootstrapped (no investors, no debts), granting us the freedom to shape our company as we see fit.
• NEW BLACK wholly owns its intellectual property, enabling us to make independent decisions about our products and innovate with the latest technology.
• NEW BLACK has formed strategic partnerships with top global brands like Apple, Microsoft, Adyen, and Deloitte, creating an ecosystem for global expansion and sustainable success.

About Your Role

As a Data Engineer at New Black, you’ll be at the core of our technical infrastructure - implementing and optimizing data pipelines that move and transform data across our platform. You’ll work with technologies like Spark, PySpark, Databricks, and Azure Data Services to build flows that support everything from business intelligence and reporting to real-time analytics and product performance monitoring. This role is hands-on and impact-heavy: you'll be expected to not just build, but also identify opportunities to improve architecture, fix inefficiencies, and scale data access across teams.

You’ll apply modern data modeling practices to both structured and unstructured data, ensure strong governance and compliance, and support data use cases across analytics, customer reporting, and internal product insights. From anomaly detection systems and dashboard automation to shaping platform performance metrics - you’ll help set the standard for how we work with data. As our data ecosystem grows, your work will enable more informed decisions, faster iteration, and stronger outcomes across the business.

What Are We Looking For?

We are specifically looking for a Nerd that already has the following skills:

Technical expertise:

• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable data architectures in cloud environments
• Strong command of Spark / PySpark, Databricks, and Azure Data Services (EventHubs, EventGrid)
• Experience with Structured Streaming, Kafka, Pub-Sub and SNS
• Solid skills in SQL and Python for data manipulation and orchestration
• Experience integrating with BI tools such as Power BI
• Familiarity with data security, compliance, reliability, and test-driven development
• Owns job orchestration: scheduled + table-update-triggered jobs, task chaining, and failure-mode handling (defer vs. crash)

Bonus points for:

• Experience with hybrid Postgres + Lakehouse data platforms, keeping hot-path and cold-store in sync
• Writes PySpark transforms that materialize business rules as queryable tables
• Engineers reliable async integrations to external systems via intent-queue drains with idempotency in mind
• Codifies infrastructure as code: Databricks Asset Bundles for jobs, azd/Bicep for the API, Alembic for schema
• Operational maintenance through logging and alerting (datadog, splunk)

Mindset:

• Proactive and curious - always looking for ways to improve or optimize
• Analytical and solutions-oriented, able to troubleshoot and move fast
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and translating business needs into scalable solutions
• Unafraid to speak up, ask the tough questions, and share new ideas

What we offer

• A company like no other; New Black really takes care of you. We hire with the intention to keep you!
• To be your own boss, for we don’t have a hierarchy but implemented a holacratic way of working. Everyone is equal.
• State of the art equipment for your home office (AirPods, Macbook etc.), and many amazing perks which will reflect your effort and input.
• Determine your own working hours and days. Determine your own off-time and working location.
• When you come to the office – the travel is on us!
• Our own chef who prepares amazing lunches for you in the office.
• To be part of something great, not just a job, but a movement in Retail IT landscape. This is a company where everyone works with passion, and they are the best in what they do.

We are changing the future of retail worldwide, and we invite you to be part of it. Apply because you’ve got the motivation to change the game of global retail and the skills to back it up.