Data Engineer - Waitwhile This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Waitwhile and our selected partners use cookies and similar technologies (together “cookies”) that are necessary to present this website, and to ensure you get the best experience of it. If you consent to it, we will also use cookies for analytics and marketing purposes. See our Cookie Policy to read more about the cookies we set. You can withdraw and manage your consent at any time, by clicking “Manage cookies” at the bottom of each website page. Accept all cookies Decline all non-necessary cookies Cookie preferences Select which cookies you accept On this site, we always set cookies that are strictly necessary, meaning they are necessary for the site to function properly. If you consent to it, we will also set other types of cookies. You can provide or withdraw your consent to the different types of cookies using the toggles below. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time, by clicking the link “Manage Cookies”, that is always available at the bottom of the site. To learn more about what the different types of cookies do, how your data is used when they are set etc, see our Cookie Policy . Strictly necessary These cookies are necessary to make the site work properly, and are always set when you visit the site. Vendors Teamtailor Analytics These cookies collect information to help us understand how the site is being used. Vendors Teamtailor Marketing These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. In some cases, they also deliver additional functions on the site. Vendors Youtube, Meta Accept these cookies Decline all non-necessary cookies Skip to main content common--header--menu#toggle" data-common--header--menu-target="button" > Career menu Start Departments Locations People Jobs The Waitwhile Way Employee Log in as employee Candidate Log in to Connect Homepage waitwhile.com Share page Facebook X LinkedIn Mail Data and Analytics · Stockholm · Hybrid Data Engineer You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun. Apply for this job
Who we are💙 Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.
The role As a Data Engineer at Waitwhile you’ll play a foundational role in building and maintaining a scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure that powers Waitwhile’s intelligence. You’ll be responsible for the complete data lifecycle: managing ETL/ELT pipelines to centralize data, orchestrating transformations, serving our Analytics APIs, and ensuring high-value insights are pushed back into business tools. In this role, you will also serve as a technical advisor to Product and Leadership on how to operationalize AI. What you’ll own Launch and maintain a scalable semantic data layer that reflects an updated view of our customers' reporting needs and has connectivity to AI tools Scope and deploy infrastructure for a production-facing AI feature. Maintain high availability for the analytics and reporting API endpoints serving the Waitwhile application. Maintain and improve the ML-based wait estimation implementation. Ensure strict anonymization, masking, and necessary separation of customer data, with zero leakage of tenant data. What skills you need 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role. Strong familiarity with Google Cloud Platform services, specifically BigQuery and Vertex AI, along with SQL. Hands-on experience with data transformation tools like DBT or Dataform. Theoretical understanding of semantic data layer tools, such as Cube.js or LookML. Master of Science in an applicable field.
Bonus Skills & Attributes: Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and NodeJS. SaaS experience, especially where analytics is part of the product offering. Experience deploying ML models to production (MLOps) and an understanding of how to integrate LLMs/AI agents into application workflows (MCP concepts). Experience handling PII and implementing GDPR/CCPA deletion workflows. A great place to work❤️ We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great
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perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own. Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job! Department Data and Analytics Locations Stockholm Remote status Hybrid Contact Mathilda Garte Talent Acquisition – Operations Stockholm Grow with us. Life balance We're parents, care-givers and multi-faceted humans that don't want to spend all our time working. We do great work, but also encourage a great work-life balance. Autonomy Your self-starting personality will shine when you have the freedom to shape your work and help guide the product's direction. Great
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benefits, retirement packages and generous time-off policies help keep your overall well-being a priority. Professional growth We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey. Take time for yourself. You have a life outside of work, and Waitwhile offers a generous time-off policy for you to enjoy it. About Waitwhile Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences. Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 250 million guests and collectively given people back over 100k years they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Google, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences. The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden. Founded in 2017 Coworkers 45 Apply for this job Data and Analytics · Stockholm · Hybrid Data Engineer You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun. Loading application form Career site Start Departments Locations People Jobs The Waitwhile Way Data & privacy Manage cookies Locations New York San Francisco Stockholm Atlanta Departments Product Customer Success Marketing Engineering Operations Sales All departments waitwhile.com Employee login · SSO Candidate Connect login Already working at Waitwhile? Let’s recruit together and find your next colleague. @waitwhile.com Log in Applicant tracking system by Teamtailor
Location
Stockholm, SE
Total raised
$12.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Christoffer Klemming
Co-founder
Jonas Klemming
Co-founder
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