Data engineer

About Spott

Spott is a YC-backed AI startup with its office in Leuven, Belgium. We are on a mission to transform the recruitment industry, by making recruiting faster, smarter and more efficient. Together, we’re building the first AI-native recruitment platform (ATS & CRM) that empowers professional recruiters to close significantly more placements.

Why?

Recruitment is an $700B+ industry still running on outdated methods. The biggest players are slow to innovate. Spott isn’t a tool that will be added to legacy software, it is a full reset. We are the system of record. AI-driven, fast, scalable, and personal. And we’re here to take over.

What We’re Looking For

To help us achieve our mission, we’re looking for a Data Engineer specialized in migrations. You’ll make sure recruitment firms can move smoothly from their legacy systems to Spott.

✔️ Direct migration experience is a plus. You should have the skills and confidence to take ownership and learn fast

✔️ You can navigate undocumented systems, reverse-engineer data models on the fly, and solve problems through experimentation.

✔️ You approach complex data challenges with practical, solutions-focused thinking.

✔️ Experience with dbt, SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake and Python

✔️ Experience with Terraform and Azure is a plus

What You’ll Do

You will build our migration strategy from the ground up. You can anticipate data coming from ~20 different systems. So far, our CTO has already created migration scripts for a good number of platforms and will be your PoC to support you.

✔️ Data Migrations: Design, manage, and optimize complex data migrations

✔️ Pipeline Development: Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes using dbt and Snowflake to efficiently manage and transform large datasets

✔️ Own the end-to-end process: Including the injection of new data into our production environments and supporting customer success to delight the client during this migration

✔️ Documentation & Process Creation: Establish clear, efficient processes for data handling and write documentation for end-to-end pipeline management

What We Offer

✔️ Competitive salary and generous stock options

✔️ A high-impact role at a fast-growing YC-backed startup

✔️ Full ownership and autonomy in your domain

✔️ Regular team dinners, sports activities, and international offsites

About the interview process

1. Application Review

We'll review your application, in 48 hours you will hear back from us

2. Founder call (30min)

A 30min call with Manu to learn about your motivations to join Spott, determine why you’d be a great fit, and answer any questions you may have for us

3. Technical Interview (60 min)

We talk through a typical data migration problem we face at Spott to learn more about how you think as an engineer

4. Founder Chat

A final chat with two of the founders to align on mission, expectations, and team fit.

Overall, if you're a data engineer and joining an “San Francisco/YC company in Belgium” sounds appealing to you, then you should apply - even if you don't match all criteria 🙂