Data Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for our first Data Engineer to lay the foundations of LANCH’s end-to-end data platform. You’ll own everything that turns operational events into trusted, analysis-ready datasets - from real-time streaming and batch pipelines to the orchestration frameworks that keep them humming. Working hand-in-hand with product, engineering, and ops, you will design and implement the data infrastructure that powers menu optimisation, delivery routing, brand performance dashboards, and much more.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and launch a scalable event-streaming platform (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka) that captures orders, logistics updates, and app interactions in real time.
• Build and maintain a modern Reverse ETL layer (e.g., Census, Hightouch) to push clean warehouse data back to internal applications like our Partner Portal, LANCH OS, or our CRM.
• Evolve our Airflow and ELT environment: modular DAG design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and cost-efficient GCP execution.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to instrument services for analytics & tracing; champion event naming conventions and schema governance.
• Set engineering standards - code reviews, documentation, security, and infra as code (Terraform) - that will scale as we 10x the team and data volume.

About LANCH
LANCH, the fastest-growing consumer company in DACH, is seeking a talented and motivated Data Engineer to join our dynamic team.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Berlin, LANCH partners with restaurants and top creators to launch delivery-first food brands such as Happy Slice pizza, Loco Chicken, and the new Korean-style Koco Chicken. Beyond virtual kitchens, we are rolling out a network of physical restaurants and retail brands (“Happy Chips”, “Loco Tortillas”) that already reach thousands of supermarkets. Backed by €26 million in Series A funding (Feb 2025), our Tech & Data team is building the platforms - LANCH OS and the Partner Portal - that power everything from menu management to supply-chain automation.

About you

What will make you thrive at LANCH:

• 2+ years building data infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Professional experience in designing and developing ELT pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with at least one streaming technology (Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis, Dataflow, ...).
• Fluent in Python for data processing; comfortable writing performant SQL (BigQuery dialect a plus).
• Proven track record orchestrating pipelines with Airflow (or Dagster, Prefect) and deploying via Docker & GitHub Actions.
• Product mindset: you enjoy sitting with ops teams or restaurant managers to translate fuzzy business challenges into robust data pipelines.
• Bias for action and ownership: you prototype quickly, measure impact, and iterate - yesterday’s idea should be today’s scheduled DAG.
• Collaborative communicator - fluent English; conversational German.
• Eager to work mostly on-site in our Berlin Prenzlauer Berg office.

Our Tech Stack

• Data Warehouse: BigQuery
• Transformation & Modelling: dbt, SQL
• Orchestration: Airflow
• Streaming / Messaging: Google Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka (greenfield)
• Backend & APIs: Python, FastAPI, SQLModel, PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions
• Analytics & BI: Metabase, Pandas, Notebook-based exploration
• Reverse ETL: Census, Hightouch, ... (greenfield)

If parts of the stack are new to you, no worries - what matters most is your drive to learn fast and build data products that power thousands of meals a day.

If shaping the data foundation of a high-growth food tech startup excites you, we’d love to meet you.

About us

At LANCH , we empower small gastronomy owners by giving them the tools needed to make food delivery fun again. We are building the world’s biggest virtual food court by creating high-quality delivery brands together with the megastars of our generation. LANCH is food delivery built for 2024. Backed by HV Capital, Felix Capital and a bunch of superstar angels such as the founders of FlixBus, Gorillas, Flaschenpost, Glovo, Foodspring, Foodora, Honest Food, Finleap and the most known YouTubers, rap stars and athletes of our time.

LIFE AT LANCH

• A steep learning curve with a high career growth trajectory and massive ownership
• Hybrid working and flexible working hours combined with a fair target salary
• Offsite team events and regular get-togethers
• Unique team spirit and flat hierarchies
• Amazing 40 people team & highly experienced leadership team to learn from
• Value-centered decision making: fast, transparent, creative and fun
• Team offsites every 16 weeks to come together in-person & strengthen our relationships
• Complete ownership on every level