Data Engineer (m/f/d) - Berlin

Data Engineer

Your Impact

At Bees & Bears, data is fundamental to our operations. As our first dedicated Data Engineer, you will build the essential infrastructure to scale our company reliably and efficiently. Currently, data is fragmented across various tools and processes, leading to manual workarounds. You will design and own the infrastructure that creates a unified data source, empowering decision-making across Risk, Finance, Product, and Operations. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Risk, and Finance teams, as well as leadership, to understand and fulfill their data needs.

Tasks: Your Mission

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines across all core systems.
• Design and implement the company's data warehouse from the ground up.
• Integrate data from internal systems, APIs, and third-party tools.
• Ensure data reliability, consistency, and accessibility throughout the company.
• Provide teams with clean, structured data to facilitate faster and better decision-making.
• Define and enforce data ownership, naming conventions, and scalable quality standards.

Requirements: Your Talent

Must-have:

• Strong SQL and Python skills, with comfort in writing complex queries and automating data workflows.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines end-to-end.
• Experience with data warehouse setup and data modeling.
• Proven ability to work independently and build systems from scratch.

Strong preference:

• Experience with modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Background in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Risk, or Finance teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience with BI tools and dashboarding.
• Basic understanding of financial data or fintech processes.
• Experience with data quality, testing, and monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with data privacy and security requirements.

Benefits

Growth & Culture:

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you'll build from scratch, learn daily, and foster a strong sense of ownership and team spirit.

Impact:

• Your work directly contributes to the energy transition. We offer extra days off for climate activism.

Flexibility:

• Hybrid, trust-based work environment with remote work as the norm. Standard two days per week remote, with flexibility to structure the rest of the week for collaboration and focus. Workations are possible if aligned with team needs.

Perks:

• A flexible bonus for sports, culture, travel, or other personal interests.

Food & Energy:

• Order food to the office via Wolt during long working days.

Team & Vibe:

• A serious mission complemented by a fun, collaborative atmosphere, including offsites, team nights, and "Bees & Beers."

About Bees & Bears

Bees & Bears is a Climate FinTech dedicated to unlocking capital for the energy transition. We believe finance is crucial for accelerating the shift to a sustainable future, addressing the massive €150 trillion investment needed by 2050. We enable installers of climate hardware (solar, energy storage, heat pumps) to offer easy monthly financing to their customers. With €500 million in funding commitments to green 25,000 households and multiple successful funding rounds, we are experiencing rapid growth.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We highly value equal opportunity and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We aim to create a friendly, safe, and welcoming space for all employees, regardless of personal characteristics. We encourage applications even if you don't meet every single requirement.

Join Us

If you're looking for a role where you can build something meaningful, move fast, and see your impact, join us. We are a startup that focuses on 'how fast' rather than 'if' something is possible.