Engineering · Malmö, Helsinki · Hybrid

Data Engineer (Analytics & Data Platform) — Build the data foundation for better decisions at Refined

Location: Malmö, Sweden

If you’re the kind of data engineer who enjoys turning complex, real-world data into something trustworthy and useful — this is your next challenge.

Key points about the role at a glance

✅ Build the data foundation that powers decisions across Customer Success, Marketing, and Product
✅ Bridge the gap between business analytics and data engineering
✅ Own and evolve our analytics data platform
✅ Drive data quality, documentation, and adoption of self-serve analytics

Why this role matters, and why it might be your next move

Refined runs on data. Not as a buzzword, but as a daily tool for making smarter product and business decisions. The challenge is that data only becomes useful when it’s reliable, well modelled, and understandable to the people using it.

This role exists to make that happen.

You’ll help build and maintain Refined’s data platform and ensure we consistently get high-quality, user-friendly data out into the company. Your work will directly influence how teams prioritize, measure outcomes, and understand what’s working (and what isn’t), across the full customer lifecycle.

This role is ideal if you’re at a point in your career where you want to:

• Own the “analytics layer” end-to-end - from ingestion and modelling to quality and stakeholder enablement

• Turn business questions into clear definitions, metrics, and data products people actually trust

• Improve the craft: testing, documentation, CI/CD, and good engineering habits applied to data

What you’ll do as our Data Engineer

In this role, you’ll provide tooling, frameworks, and high-quality data that enable data-informed decision making across Refined.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

• Develop and maintain Refined’s data platform for analytics using software best practices (version control, code review, CI/CD pipelines).

• Design and build core business data models (especially dimensional models) that make analytics consistent and scalable.

• Translate business needs into technical solutions — bridging stakeholders and data engineering with shared language and clear definitions.

• Ensure data quality and reliability through testing, monitoring, and documentation, so datasets are trustworthy and reusable.

• Advocate for data-informed workflows by enabling self-serve access, improving data literacy, and raising awareness across the company.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who enjoys combining analytical thinking with strong engineering habits and knowledge sharing. Smeone who can create data products that are both technically sound and genuinely useful. As well as be an advacate for data literacy within Refined.

We’re looking for:

• SQL expertise (2–3 years): writing high-quality, maintainable SQL — ideally with dbt or similar tooling.

• Data modelling (1–2 years): especially dimensional modelling and building models that reflect how the business works.

• Python + development experience (1–2 years): comfortable building data tooling/pipelines, and working like a software engineer.

• Strong communication: you can translate between business context and technical detail, and you enjoy collaborating with stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience coaching others, raising data competence, or leading adoption of shared ways of working

• Familiarity with our stack: GCP, BigQuery, dlt, Looker

• Infrastructure-as-code experience (we use Pulumi)

What success looks like

In 3 months: You understand the current data platform, key stakeholders, and the highest-impact analytics use cases. You’re shipping improvements and building trust.

In 6 months: You’ve delivered or significantly improved core business models, introduced stronger testing/documentation practices, and made data easier to use across teams.

In 12 months: You’re a trusted owner of Refined’s analytics data platform — shaping modelling standards, improving reliability, and driving a culture where teams default to data-informed decisions.

The people you’ll work with

You’ll collaborate across the company — with Product, Customer Success, Marketing, and Engineering — to make sure data is not only correct, but actually usable. You’ll work closely with the CFO connecting data and business insights.

Benefits & salary

We value transparency. Here’s what you can expect when you join Refined – specific details may vary by location, and we’ll go through them with you during the hiring process.

All employees receive benefits based on Scandinavian standards, with small variations per country:

• Core benefits: Pension, health insurance, sick leave, and five weeks of paid vacation.

• Parental leave: Paid parental leave to support new parents.

• Work–life balance: Flexible hours, hybrid work (typically 2–3 office days per week), and the trust to manage your own schedule.

• Development & wellness: Learning budget, wellness allowance, and dedicated time to grow personally and professionally.

• Culture perks: Twice-yearly company offsites, optional team events, and offices where fika and darts are part of the rhythm.

• Global team: This role is based in Malmö. Most colleagues are in these hubs, but we also have teammates in Brazil, New York, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, and Portugal.

• Salary: This role offers a salary range of 45000–58000 SEK depending on experience. We share salary bands transparently in the hiring process to ensure clarity and fairness.

About Refined

We make Atlassian tools simple, branded, and user-friendly – helping more than 5000 companies worldwide, from startups to Apple and Spotify, build sites their teams actually love to use. Read more about our products here>>

Refined is a 70-person SaaS company, founded in Malmö in 2009 and now working across Malmö, Helsinki, and globally. We’re built on Scandinavian roots but our team represents 30+ nationalities.

We value freedom and autonomy, which for us means taking initiative, gathering context, focusing on impact, and driving things forward. It’s about getting it right over being right.

People thrive here when they lean into challenges, learn by doing, and care about the impact of their work – on colleagues, customers, and the wider ecosystem. Every role has a direct line to customer outcomes, and you’ll see your work shaping how thousands of people experience Atlassian every day.

We’re also proud members of Pledge 1%, giving back to people and the planet.

✨ In short: we’re product-led, human-centered, and impact-driven – a startup-minded SaaS company filled with passionate people who care deeply, challenge directly, and continuously improve together.

Learn more about life at working at Refined>>

Sound like your kind of challenge?

Awesome! To apply, please submit your application by following the link provided. Ensure your application is submitted by 11 January, 2026. We encourage early applications as we review them on a rolling basis.

Recruitment process

After submitting your application, here’s what to expect:

1. Fill out a pre-screening logic and personality test via Alva Labs.

2. The next steps include an introductory call and two interviews focusing on competence and cultural fit.

3. Finally, if we believe it’s a good match both ways, we’ll give you an offer.

We look forward to your application and potentially welcoming you to Refined!

We started Refined in 2009 with a simple idea: Enterprise software doesn’t have to be boring. Since then, Refined has evolved from a handy theming tool into a full-fledged site builder, helping more than 5,000 companies worldwide transform their Atlassian Confluence and Jira instances into beautiful, branded sites users love.