Senior Data Engineer (employee or freelance)

Who we are :

About Qover:

We are Qover, a leading insurtech scale-up that has raised $100 million. With an international team of 160+ colleagues based in Brussels and beyond, we help companies orchestrate digital embedded insurance experiences — creating meaningful connections with their community and enabling their success.

Since Qover was founded in 2016, our co-founders have had a clear vision of the future of insurance: it must be simple, transparent, and accessible across borders — a global safety net.

Our platform protects 15M+ users across 32 European countries and works with longstanding partners like Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, Canyon, and Monzo, among many others.

.Visit our website for more about what we do!

🚀 About the Role & Mission

At Qover, we are building the orchestration engine for the future of embedded insurance. Our data team operates with a pure engineering mindset and a strong focus on operational excellence—ensuring our international insurance programs run seamlessly on fresh, reliable data.

We are urgently seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a high-impact project. Ywill be in the driver’s seat: owning complex data financial reporting from prototyping directly into production, maintaining best-in-class engineering standards, and keeping our data architecture lean and scalable.

🛠️ The Tech Environment

• Data Warehouse: Google BigQuery

• Transformation & Ingestion: dbt, Airbyte

• Languages & Scripting: Python, SQL, Bash

• BI & Data Visualization: Looker

• DevOps & Quality: Git, Docker, CI/CD, Unit & Integration Testing

• AI-First Culture: We actively encourage leveraging AI agents to accelerate coding, testing, and deployment.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

1. Data Financial Reporting & Pipelines

• Build, maintain, and optimize robust dbt data pipelines that power the day-to-day operations of our embedded insurance programs.

• Architect flexible data models designed to handle the nuances of insurance operations with minimal rework as new products launch.

• Streamline BigQuery data structures to eliminate redundancy and prevent data fragmentation across systems.

2. Data Governance & Quality Assurance

• Implement automated quality checks, anomaly detection, unit tests, and integration testing.

• Maintain strict data security, privacy controls, clear data lineage, and precise access management for sensitive insurance and financial data.

3. Technical Leadership & Operations

• Partner with the broader data team to push our data warehouse architecture to the next level.

• Champion best practices through code reviews, technical sharing sessions, and documentation.

• Empower business stakeholders to become self-serve and data-savvy.

🎯 Your Profile

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in SQL and complex Data Modeling .

• Proven expertise in dbt and production Python .

• Strong background working with modern cloud platforms and serverless data warehouses ( BigQuery highly preferred).

• Solid engineering practices: comfortable with Git, Bash, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and writing unit/integration tests.

• Pragmatic mindset: You comfortably balance architectural elegance with speed of execution to hit fast-paced business deadlines.

• High degree of autonomy—able to thrive in dynamic environments with minimal supervision.

• Excellent communication skills; fluent in English .

Nice-to-Haves:

• Master’s degree in STEM.

• Professional working proficiency in Dutch .

• Direct experience in FinTech, InsurTech, or financial reporting systems.

What’s in it for you:

• A flexible work environment: up to three days remote per week and the ability to work from anywhere one month per year

• 28 days off (8 extra days on top of the 20 legal days)

• A nice working space in a great location in Brussels: Qover-dedicated space at WeWork (Rue du Commerce 31) with a large terrace to enjoy team events

• A positive company culture that values teamwork and taking initiative but also having fun, with regular social events

• A collaborative and communal environment where everyone is welcomed, valued and accepted regardless of their nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, philosophical or political views, etc.

• The chance to work among entrepreneurial people, giving you the opportunity to learn and have a real impact at one of Europe’s fastest-growing insurtechs