Skillhouse Internal Career Opportunity
Senior Data Engineer (English only)
Position Title:
Senior Data Engineer (English only)
Employment Type:
Permanent
Working Hours:
Japanese Level - Low Intermediate (JLPT Level 4),English Level - Advanced (TOEIC 860)
Salary
12000000.00
Description
A fast-growing travel tech company, building products for hotels across the globe is seeking a Senior Data Engineer. The company is currenly having interesting new challenges involving modeling and ingesting new external data sources that give the company a better picture of the hospitality industry, and it is working on data platform improvements that make it easier for AI agents to find data and construct accurate performant queries. An ideal addition to our team would be someone with demonstrated experience developing data pipelines and data models on a big data scale using software engineering best practices who is excited to keep up with the latest advancements in data and work with the hospitality industry’s most interesting datasets.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Beam, Spark, and BigQuery to process large-scale hospitality industry datasets
- Improve data models for tripla’s critical data entities, ensuring our data platform’s consumers can query the right thing without running up compute costs
- Work with data producers to develop data platform metadata that humans and AI agents can use to discover data and execute accurate, high-performance queries.
- Collaborate with ML engineers to architect data features and pipelines that power triplaBot and recommendation engines powering other tripla products
Required skills:
- More than 5 years of combined experience as a Data Engineer, Data Architect or Software Engineer working on Data intensive services
- Proficient in writing productions code such as Python, Scala, Java to build big data platform components and data pipelines framework like Spark, DuckDB, Apache Beam.
- Experience with SQL and data orchestration tools such as DBT, Airflow, Prefect
- Strong understanding of Data modeling, Schema design and transformation best practices.
Why should you apply:
- Collaborative and supportive team culture across services at the Japan offices and globally, chances to work in an international environment.
- Flexible work style, with no core hours, only minimal clocking time of 8 hours.
- Active participation in global projects, ideal for those seeking to expand language skills and international perspective
- High visibility and influence, with close proximity to global function heads and opportunities to shape operational strategy
Company Details:
Founded in 2015 in Tokyo, this company is a cloud-based SaaS provider serving the travel and hospitality industry. Headquartered in central Tokyo, the organization employs approximately 190 professionals, with a highly multinational and diverse workforce, particularly across engineering and product teams.
The company has been publicly listed since 2022 and continues to scale as a growth-stage technology business. Its platforms are deployed across 9,900+ hotel properties globally, supporting mission-critical systems such as online reservation engines, AI-driven customer engagement tools, CRM platforms, and integrated payment solutions.
Built on modern cloud-native architecture, the systems are designed for high availability, scalability, and security, processing large volumes of real-time transactions across multiple regions. Engineering teams work on distributed systems, automation, and data-driven products to support global operations.
With an expanding presence across Asia and international markets, the company is recognized as a fast-growing TravelTech SaaS provider, focused on delivering reliable, enterprise-grade platforms for a global customer base.
Working Hours: 9:00 - 18:00 (Mon-Fri) (Flex time, no core hours, 8 hours a day)
Working Style: e.g Hybrid (3 days remote work, 2 days in office)
Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, and National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, Paid Holidays, Other Special Holidays
Interview Process： 3 rounds of interview
