Hopper

Ads Data Engineer - HTS Media Services

Hopper

Posted 9 hours ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Dubai

Requirements

Data Engineering, SQL, Cloud Warehousing, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Real-Time Streaming, Machine Learning

Required Skills

SQL Python Scala BigQuery Snowflake Redshift Airflow DBT Kafka ML Data Modeling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the Data Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines to process high-volume advertising data.
  • Build the Foundation: Develop and manage our analytical data warehouse, establishing it as the single source of truth for all reporting and analytics.
  • Enable Insights: Create clean, reliable, and performant data models that power our advertiser reporting dashboards, internal analytics, and billing systems.
  • Ensure Data Integrity: Implement robust data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure the accuracy and trustworthiness of our data.
  • Collaborate and Empower: Work closely with the engineering and product teams to define data requirements and deliver the necessary data infrastructure to support new ad products and features.
  • Prepare for the Future: Build the foundational data systems that will enable future ML-driven optimizations for audience targeting and performance prediction.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of data engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of building and maintaining data infrastructure at scale.
  • Expert-level proficiency in SQL and a programming language like Python or Scala for data processing.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based data warehousing solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).
  • Proven success building and operationalizing data pipelines using orchestration tools (e.g., SQLMesh, Airflow, dbt).
  • Experience with real-time data streaming technologies (e.g., Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis).
  • Strong understanding of data modeling concepts and experience designing schemas for analytical workloads.
  • Experience with ad tech, retail media, or large-scale data systems is strongly preferred.
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
  • A strong sense of ownership and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with ad tech, retail media, or large-scale data systems

Benefits

  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
  • Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
  • HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
  • All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
  • All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
  • Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
  • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
  • Open communication with management and company leadership.
  • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.

About the Company

HTS Media is Hopper’s advertising and media division, built to help travel brands, destinations, and suppliers connect with travelers at scale. We power advertising placements across Hopper’s app and through our B2B partner network, which includes global brands like Capital One Travel and TripAdvisor. Our mission is to build the travel industry’s leading retail media network, turning advertising into a major driver of profitability for Hopper and our partners, much like Instacart, Uber, and Amazon have done in their sectors.

We’re still in the early stages of our roadmap, yet HTS Media has already become one of Hopper’s fastest-growing and most profitable business units. The engineering team plays a pivotal role in scaling the platform, ensuring our ad tech products deliver measurable impact for advertisers and seamless experiences for travelers.

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