Senior Data Engineer (Product)
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About the Position
Lead the data backbone for Centra’s new Insights module: real-time pipelines, scalable APIs, and trusted dashboards for 300+ brands. Own design decisions, drive impact.
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We're not just building an ecommerce platform. We’re reshaping how fashion & lifestyle brands scale globally.
Our API-first, headless SaaS platform supports over 300 brands in delivering localized, high-performance shopping experiences across 120+ countries. Backed by a 50 million SEK investment from the H&M Group, we power leading names like COS, ARKET, & Other Stories, Weekday, Nudie Jeans, and Paul Smith. Brands trust Centra to run operations in 20+ markets - a reflection of the platform’s flexibility and efficiency.
Why Join Centra?
You will build and own the data backbone of our new Data & Insights module. New team, greenfield development, everything to play for.
You’ll take raw transactional data from our clients and transform it into high-performance “gold tables” that power real-time and analytical dashboards, making key architectural decisions along the way to ensure scalability, reliability, and speed.
Responsibilities
- Build data pipelines. Design and orchestrate near real-time data ingestion from client databases (CDC, AWS DMS, GCP Datastream, Azure Data Factory/Fabric, etc.)
- Standardise metrics. Define and implement a single source of truth for key fashion KPIs using SQL and transformation tools (dbt, Dataform, etc.)
- Own performance and scalability so that everything goes faster. Architect caching and performance layers to support fast, reliable dashboards across 300+ clients, making pragmatic trade-offs between cost, latency and complexity.
- Develop APIs. Design and maintain serverless APIs (e.g. Lambda, Cloud Run) that power the frontend experience.
- Expand data sources. Evaluate, ingest, and integrate new third-party data sources alongside existing datasets.
Requirements
- Experience building and owning data platforms or products from scratch, including making architectural decisions.
- Expert-level SQL and strong experience modelling complex business domains.
- Proven ability to design scalable data systems in a cloud-native environment (AWS, GCP, or similar.)
- Comfortable making independent technical decisions within a product context, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong product thinking/product engineering mindset. You don’t just build tables, you understand how data drives decisions for customers and why a brand needs this data.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK.)
- MLOps experience is a plus
Nice to Have
- Experience in a similar role within a tech-driven e-commerce environment.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a fast-growing, equal opportunity company
- Hybrid working model with up to ten days per month remote
- Be part of a mission to help brands accelerate globally
About the Company
We’re a fast-growing, equal opportunity company on a mission to help brands accelerate globally through our advanced ecommerce platform.
Location and Logistics
This team is based in Stockholm. We operate an office-first, hybrid working model. You can work up to ten days per month remote.
Equality
We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and to building a team with diverse perspectives. If you need adjustments during the process, please let us know.
Recruiting Process:
- Introductory Interview: Meet our recruiter, discuss your experience and expectations. (Online, 30–45 min)
- Technical Interview: Dive into technical discussions. (Online or onsite 1.5–2h)
- Ways of Working Interview: Explore your alignment with our values and meet the team. (Online or onsite, 1h)
Note: We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and to building a team with diverse perspectives. If you need adjustments during the process, please let us know. Recruiting scams are on the rise, remember that Centra employees will only contact you from @centra.com email addresses. We will never ask for money, fees, or banking information as part of the process. We do not conduct interviews or do outreach via messaging apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger etc.) If you're unsure about a communication, don't click any links and email [email protected].
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Centra is an advanced composable SaaS e-commerce platform for global consumer brands, with modules for both Direct-to-Consumer and Wholesale e-commerce.The Centra platform empowers global brands such as Nudie Jeans, Ideal of Sweden, Stronger, Eton Shirts, Sandqvist, Craft Sportswear and others to drive global e-commerce to consumers and wholesale buyers.Centra is currently one of the fastest-growing e-commerce platforms on the market and a pioneer in the field of composable commerce. The platform consists of two modules: Direct-to-Consumer and Wholesale.Centra was founded in 2016 and has grown without external funding or venture capital. Centra is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in Wroclaw, Poland and New York, USA.