Senior Data Engineer Viseu

Senior Data Engineer
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

Company Description

MIR Insight forecasts demand and price developments in the materials industry, enabling companies to reduce waste and minimize losses. We are a
- growing tech startup serving leading industry players such as K. D. Feddersen, Maral Overseas Ltd, and Jobachem, supported by international investors. Our goal is to provide our users with innovative, reliable, and
- friendly software. Join us on our mission to transform the manufacturing supply chain into a highly efficient, sustainable, and
- predictive economy.

Your Mission

You’ll take
- on ownership of our database architecture, data pipelines, and orchestration workflows. You’ll ensure our data and forecasting models run seamlessly, reliably, and at scale. Working closely with our data science and product teams, you’ll build the backbone that powers our forecasts — from raw data ingestion to delivery of actionable results. Full-stack experience is a plus, enabling you to contribute to internal tools when needed.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimize our Postgre
  SQL database architecture to handle
  - scale,
  - frequency forecasting data
• Develop and manage orchestration workflows (e. G. , Airflow, Prefect) for ETL, model training, and result delivery
• Create robust backend services for ingesting, processing, and serving forecasts
• Proactively monitor pipeline health and database performance;
  
  resolve bottlenecks andautomate error handling
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy and scale models in production
• Implement auditability, logging, and versioning for data flows and forecasts
• Automate repetitive data handling and reporting tasks
• Contribute to system architecture decisions as we grow
• (Optional) Support internal dashboards and lightweight frontend tools

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, data infrastructure, or database administration
• Deep
  - on knowledge of Postgre
  SQL, including performance tuning, replication, and query optimization
• Strong Python skills and experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc. )
• Familiarity with API frameworks (Fast
  API, Flask) and cloud storage (GCS, S3)
• Independent
  - solver who thrives in a startup environment
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Bonus:
  
  Background in supply chain, manufacturing, or forecasting domains

What We Offer

• The chance to shape the future of how companies plan and forecast
• A
  - performance,
  - led team and
  - paced startup culture
• Competitive salary with potential equity upside
• Flexible working setup
• Opportunity to grow into a team lead role as we scale