Principal Data Product

Your high speed missionAbout BaqendSlow websites suck Of 3.5 hours you spend online each day, 20 minutes are wasted waiting for websites to load. In your life, you will waste one whole year.Join our mission of building a web without loading times to make all Internet users happier. Our product Speed Kit is the all-in-one page speed tool and accelerates websites worldwide, including market leading companies like BMW, Zwilling and GANT.Our world-class team uses the latest web technology trends to make our customer websites up to 4x faster and to improve the user experience for 300 million users per month.Sounds exciting? Come on board and help us so that no one has to suffer from lost timeWithin our Web Performance Intelligence Team we are providing insights into the data of >300 million monthly users with the corresponding requests per minute (>>100k). We analyse performance and e-commerce data as well technical signals from browsers to perform production A/B tests and monitor customer websites. Insights are shared with customers, implemented by our integration teams or fed back into development of our product in order to constantly improve it.To support this we are now looking for a team member in the position of aPrincipal Data Product & Analytics Engineer (all genders) in full-time either remote or hybrid.About Your RoleAs a Principal Data Product & Analytics Engineer, you will play a crucial role in transforming raw data into meaningful insights that drive decision-making across our teams and for our customers. Your mission is to analyze, visualize, and communicate the impact of Speed Kit on customer websites, ensuring that both internal and external stakeholders can leverage data effectively.You will work at the intersection of data analysis, visualization, and product development, collaborating with business units, integration teams, and data engineers to enhance our analytical capabilities. By autonomously creating compelling data stories and intuitive dashboards, you will help shape our customers' understanding of performance improvements and identify new opportunities to optimize web experiences.If you love diving into complex product data, crafting powerful visualizations, and making complex insights easy to grasp, this role is for youAbout Your Potential TasksYou will be our Product Data superstar, knowing Speed Kit and its impact on customer websites inside and out over timeYou will analyse our products impact on customer websites in self-designed A/B tests to find areas of improvementYou will work on implementation of analytical data products and new features (e.g. develop Hex Dashboards, reusable report templates) in collaboration with our Data EngineersYou will advise our business units on how to communicate their data-driven message using the most effective data visualizationsYou will support other teams in solving problems with already existing data solutionsYou will be the guiding light to our Data Analyst Junior in the team, giving mentorship and sparringYou will create communicative documents (e.g. presentation slides) that help our Business Development explaining data related concepts to our customersYou will generalize, document and (at least partly) automate recurring analysis tasks (e.g. Bot Analysis, Business Performance Analysis)Your ticket for our spaceshipWe don't care whether you have a degree or are a career changerYou bring at least 5+ years practical experience in a similar positionYou are fluent in data retrieval and analysis via SQLYou are highly skilled in the conception and implementation of effective data visualization, e.g. via Tableau/Power BI/Looker Studio, Google Sheets and/or Excel, Python, Jupyter or similar notebook engines and/or RYou're good at storytelling with data and communicating complex topicsYou are a solution oriented, analytical thinkerYou like to work independently with a high level of responsibility and a structured approachYou are very comfortable in relevant statistical methodsWhy get in?Remote or hybrid: we love working flexibility, you can either work hybrid and be in the office once in a while or work 100% remoteWe set you up with your remote office work station from screen to office chairPick your OS: You can freely choose your OS between Mac, Windows or LinuxBeautiful office: Work in the heart of Hamburg's SchanzenviertelPet-friendly office: You're always welcome to bring a furry friendAwesome coworkers: Join a competent, humorous crewFlexible work: Work on a full-time or part-time scheduleRegular team events: Join our non-binding team events - on premise or hybridPersonal training budget: We help you to grow your career and skillsMonthly gym budget: We deeply care about the health of our teamFuture-proof pension scheme: feel free to bring your pension scheme with you or let our experts advise youOur Tech StackDon't worry, we do not expect that you know or use all of these tools and technologies:Data Analysis & Reporting:Hex Technologies (Jupyter-Based notebook and dashboard engine with direct AWS Connectors), AWS Athena, SQL, Python, Pandas, Seaborn, Altair, Vega-Lite, Grafana, BigQueryData Engineering, Backend & DevOps:Java/JVM, Kotlin, , Go, AWS (diverse Services), MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Fastly, Nginx, Flink, Grafana, Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Helm, Redis, VarnishFrontend:Service Worker (the majority of Speed Kit), TypeScript & JavaScript, Selenium/Browserstack/Gitlab & Gitlab CI, Puppeteer/Playwright, WebPagetestCountdown** … You share your CV or LinkedIn profile with us … We schedule a first (video-) call (15~30 minutes)… We schedule a 1st technical interview to get you in contact with the team (30~60 minutes)… We send you a (coding-) case to prepare for our 2nd meeting… We schedule a 2nd technical interview to talk about the (coding-) case (90~120 minutes)… If both sides are happy, we will prepare the contract… You join our rocket shipYour contact personSimon is happy to receive your application and is available for your questions at About UsBaqend develops Speed Kit, a SaaS plugin solution to accelerate e-commerce websites by more than 50% within 2 days.Baqend is a research spin-off from the University of Hamburg on the mission of building a web without loading times. The founders pioneered a novel approach to speed up the delivery of dynamic data. Speed Kit bundles years of this research in a plugin for large-scale e-commerce and brand websites, that is easily implemented by just a line of JavaScript code. Today, some of the leading European e-commerce players like Decathlon, Galeria, and BMW already rely on Speed Kit to improve their conversion rates, user experience, and SEO ranking. Since the product's speed uplift is cleanly proven by statistically sound A/B-tests, Baqend is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Germany.