Senior Growth Data Engineer (Remote)

A user sees an ad, visits a website, and installs an app days later. Which activity contributed to the purchase—and how confident are we in that answer? At Applause, you will build the measurement systems that help us understand and improve growth across our app portfolio.

About Applause

Applause acquires exceptional consumer apps and invests in their continued development and growth. Our portfolio includes Strongbox, Voice Dream, Nomorobo, and Meditation Moments.

Good product and marketing decisions depend on reliable measurement. We want to understand the full user journey, from paid and organic acquisition through app activation, subscriptions, retention, and re-engagement.

This is a remote role within an international team. Our working language is English, and we have offices in Amsterdam and New York.

The role

As a Senior Growth Data Engineer, you will build and own our growth measurement system across the portfolio. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to Alex, our VP of Engineering.

Your responsibility will span ingestion, identity, attribution, reconciliation, warehouse models, monitoring, and reporting. You will work closely with marketing, product, and engineering to make data reliable and help colleagues understand what it can—and cannot—tell them.

Your work will include:

Building and maintaining data pipelines across web, apps, advertising platforms, and lifecycle channels.
Designing identity models that connect different stages of the user journey where possible.
Bringing together and interpreting attribution data from multiple sources.
Investigating discrepancies between advertising platforms, measurement providers, and internal data.
Developing reliable warehouse models and scalable data processing.
Monitoring data quality, freshness, and pipeline reliability.
Producing reporting that supports product and marketing decisions.
Supporting adjacent full-stack work when needed.

Our current paid channels are Google Ads and Meta, with TikTok likely to follow.

What you bring

You combine strong data engineering skills with a practical understanding of mobile marketing measurement. You have built and owned a production analytics system, either as its sole owner or technical lead.

We are looking for:

At least three years of deep, relevant hands-on experience.
Advanced SQL and practical Python skills.
Experience with data warehouses, databases, and scaling data systems.
The ability to explain attribution across web, iOS apps, lifecycle channels, Mobile Measurement Partners (MMPs), organic traffic, and paid channels.
Experience working with measurement data from Google Ads and Meta.
An understanding of iOS privacy limitations and web-to-app funnels.
The ability to explain why attribution is not a one-to-one mapping and why different systems report different results.
Clear written and spoken English, including the ability to explain complex topics to non-technical colleagues.

Relevant backgrounds include app studios, mobile gaming companies, agencies, and high-growth consumer subscription businesses. What matters most is your personal ownership of the system and your understanding of how its parts fit together.

What you can expect

A remote, hands-on senior role with responsibility for growth measurement across an app portfolio.
The opportunity to shape the technical foundations of our analytics.
Direct collaboration with marketing, product, engineering, and our VP of Engineering.
Work that informs real product and marketing decisions.
An international team that values independence, analytical rigor, and clear communication.

Interested?

Send us your CV and briefly describe an analytics or attribution system you owned. Which sources did you bring together, what challenges did you solve, and how did the business use the results?