Location:
Barcelona (Hybrid) ·
Type:
Full-time

Get to know us:

Started in 2016, Frekuent is now the all-in-one payment and loyalty platform for unattended environments — 500+ clients, 100M+ transactions a year, 2.5M+ users across Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Singapore. We turn one-time buyers into lifetime clients with cashless, contactless, effortless payments: less friction, more reasons to come back.

2026 has been our biggest year yet — we've hyperscaled from 40 to 100+ people, with more hires on the way, and closed a €6M funding round to fuel what's next.

And we're just getting started — our goal is to become the default payment and loyalty layer behind every unattended transaction, everywhere.

Curious? Check us out at www.frekuent.com.

Why this role exists:

Data at Frekuent isn't a side project — every tap on a Frekuent Spot, every loyalty reward, every fraud check produces it, and we're scaling fast enough that our current platform is starting to show the seams. We're hiring a Lead Data Engineer to own that platform end-to-end: not write a roadmap slide,



but rebuild the pipelines, standards, and trust so the whole company — including the AI tools we're building on top of our data — can run on real numbers instead of guesses.

You'll work directly with the exec team, and they want a partner who turns ambiguous business problems into a working data platform, not just a bigger backlog.

What you'll actually do:
- Audit the current platform's weak spots and turn them into a concrete, prioritized roadmap.
- Set technical direction for data modeling, ETL/ELT, and infrastructure-as-code, and lead the engineers who build it.
- Own performance, reliability, and cost as data volume grows — not a "set it up once" job.
- Partner with the exec team: turn their priorities into a real plan, balance asks, and delegate across the team.
- Build real CI/CD for analytics, and set the bar for data quality, lineage, governance, and observability.
- Build the AI substr

📌 Lead Data Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Frekuent
📍 Barcelona