Senior Product Manager - Data Application

About Holidu

Holidu is a travel & tech start-up that is building the world’s best search engine for vacation rentals. Our mission is to make finding and booking the perfect rental finally easy. We are on this journey in a rapidly growing team of travel and technology enthusiasts from all over the world. Our travel mates also include investors and mentors who have helped companies such as Booking.com, Spotify and Zalando to achieve global success. So, pack your bag, hop on board and get ready for take off!

Position

Your future team

The Data Application Squad is part of the Data Engineering Team in the Business Intelligence (BI) department. The BI team consists of Data Analytics, Data Science, and Data Engineering with team members from over 10 countries.

In this role, you and your team are collaborating with all Holidu Teams (Tech and Business), your main stakeholders will be the Marketing teams. You will help them make data-driven decisions by implementing scalable solutions for data processing. Thereby leveraging the impact of Marketing with data-heavy applications built by your team.

Our Tech Stack

• Java 8 (with Spring Boot), Scala, Python and R
• Data storage with AWS Athena, AWS Redshift, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, AWS S3 Data processing with Spark, Flink, Kafka 
• Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git
• Search engine runs on Elasticsearch cluster
• Internal applications developed in ReactJS
• Data visualization with Kibana, Grafana and Tableau

Your role in this journey

• Being part of the team which is fully responsible for our data platform and data applications
• Understanding data related technical problems and helping find solutions with your engineering team 
• Effectively translating business requirements into technical solutions, roadmaps and specifications
• Organizing tasks and managing technical requirements in collaboration with your engineering team
• Performing data analyses to ensure impact and quality of results
• Aligning with the Data Analytics team on the prioritisation of tasks and tickets to enable the team to achieve short and long-term objectives
• Helping to remove blockers and opticals of team members to enable efficient development

Your qualification

• A university degree in informatics, computer science, industrial engineering, physics, mathematics, economics or related STEM fields
• 2+ years of professional work experience in a data intensive work environment and experience with big data technologies like Redshift
• Very good understanding of data processing, databases and big data technologies
• Strong SQL skills and familiar with programming languages like Python, Java, C++ etc.
• Experience with data visualisation tools like Tableau or Kibana
• You have strong communication skills to manage complex projects with different stakeholders Strong organizational/analytical skills with ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

What we offer

• Have an impact on the millions of people using our product every month 
• Grow with responsibility from day one and develop yourself further through regular feedback, workshops and knowledge exchange 
• Use your personal development budget and two extra days off to enhance your professional skills by visiting conferences, buying books, attending courses and more
• Connect and have fun with international, diverse and yet like-minded people at work, regular events and weekly office days with your team
• Get to know the world with our flexible home office policy and the opportunity to work from other local offices
• Get in shape with a premium gym membership for a discounted rate
• Go travelling for 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria with interesting discounts on our Bookiply properties
• Get a sneak peek at the adventure that awaits you on Instagram @lifeatholidu