Junior Software Engineer - Data

Berlin€65k - €85kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Junior Data-focused software engineer role at Almedia, building live data pipelines and services at scale in Berlin with on-site employment.

Build and ship data pipelines that run live in production, from ingestion to storage, across near-real-time and batch workloads.
Build Python services and APIs that other teams and products rely on.
Work with operational databases and learn to run them under real production load: schema design, reliability, and performance.
Build tests, monitoring, and data quality checks that catch problems before a stakeholder has to tell you.
Help keep a warehouse of hundreds of terabytes fast, reliable, and cost-efficient.
Own undefined data problems from first idea to production. No playbook. You own it all.

Strong Python and SQL. You use AI tools to move faster, and you still verify the output.
Proof of depth as an engineer: a degree in computer science or a related field, internships, open-source work, a thesis, or a system you built yourself and kept running.
Hands-on experience with a database beyond the basics (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar). You understand schemas, indexes, and what breaks under load.
You get going on a vague problem without waiting for a spec, and you take it further than you were asked.
You think about reliability. You debug rigorously when things break, and you want to know why before you fix it.
Bonus: Kafka or Pub/Sub, dbt, Docker, Terraform, competition results, or a project you built and hardened yourself.

Required:PythonSQLDatabase fundamentalsProblem solving in unclear contextsReliability and debugging

Nice to have:Bonus tech

Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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