Data & AI Engineer

We’re looking for a sharp, hands-on Data & AI Engineer to streamline and automate Breeze’s operations – from AI-powered partner acquisition and reservation flows to smart customer support tooling and smarter user-date venue matching.

About Breeze

At Breeze, we are building towards a future where people spend less time on their phones and more time connecting in real life.

The Breeze app is the dating app for real dates. We've built the world's first service that organizes actual offline dates at scale. On Breeze, users skip the online chat – once you match, you pick a time, and we organize a real-life date at one of our partnered venues.

So far we've organized around 400.000 dates and are live in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, the UK and New York.

About The Role

Your mission is to make Breeze’s operations radically more efficient – by automating the repetitive, improving the messy, and integrating the disconnected. You’ll work across customer support, partner venue sales, partner account management, and the user/venue matching – all essential to a great on-date experience and what makes Breeze unique.

This is a hands-on role with lots of ownership and variety. You’ll be a link between several teams and work closely with our Chief Operational Officer, Chief Product & Tech Officer, and Sales Development Manager. You’ll be the technical force behind smarter tooling, AI-driven agents, and more scalable operations.

Concretely, You Will

• Automate operations using AI – build AI workflows/agents to handle partner reservations and automate lead generation, enrichment, and outreach. Make it faster and easier for us to grow into new cities.
• Improve the on-date experience – own and improve the location picker logic, so users get better matches with available, relevant venues.
• Build support tooling – improve our internal support co-pilot and help develop a smarter AI agent to reduce ticket load and increase user delight.
• Integrate systems – set up syncs between tools like Pipedrive and BigQuery. Connect inbound leads, email tools, and dashboards with minimal friction.
• Create dashboards & lightweight infra – help ops with user insights, partner dashboards, and form-based flows that feed directly into our systems.
• Be a self-starting builder – you’ll often be the one to spot what’s worth fixing next. You’ll prioritize well, manage your own work, and ship things that make a real impact, fast.
  
  

About You

We're looking for a high-caliber builder who thrives on autonomy and breadth. Specifically:

• Smart & solution-oriented – you learn quickly, enjoy solving messy problems, and can figure out what matters without needing a lot of guidance. You’re not just a doer, you’re a thinker.
• Versatile technical generalist – you’re comfortable jumping between backend code, light frontend work, and scripting data flows. You don’t need to be an expert in everything, but you’re confident building and shipping end-to-end.
• AI-first mindset – you already leverage AI in your workflow and often think where automation can save time or boost quality. You’ve built or integrated AI agents, or you’re eager to do so.
• Data engineering capable – you know your way around databases, APIs, and data syncing tools like BigQuery or Airtable. You’ve written scripts or built pipelines that move and transform data across systems.
• Independent & reliable – you manage your own priorities, communicate clearly, and get things done. You’re someone others trust to take ownership and follow through.
• Bias for action – you don’t wait for perfect specs. You’re proactive, take initiative, and care about making a real impact – not just writing code.
  
  

What Breeze Offers You

Compensation & Benefits

💰 Salary: €5500 – €7500  on a full-time basis per month (gross), depending on your experience

📊 Share options: after an initial contract, the opportunity to benefit from Breeze’s success

Practicalities & Perks

🕐 Flexibility: Hybrid (3d/wk at the office) work environment with flexible hours

🚝 Travel: Office right next to Rotterdam Central; travel costs covered

💼 Gear: Necessary high-end tools and ergonomic workspace provided

👵 Pension plan: We provide an additional 5% pension through a sustainable pension provider (ASR DoenPensioen)

🧘‍♂️ Mental health support: we provide free access to a psychologist through OpenUp

📚 Learning budget: You are encouraged to put time into study & learning and look for (paid) learning opportunities

🌴 Holidays: 25 paid vacation days plus an 8% holiday allowance

Growth & Culture

⚡ Dynamic workplace: Fast-paced environment with swift decision-making, often challenging the status quo and each other

🌱 Empowered growth: Gain a lot of responsibility in a fast-growing startup. Many lessons guaranteed. Freedom and budget available for additional learning.

🌍 Mission-driven team: Join a young and ambitious team redefining online dating.

Apply for the job

Feel free to reach out if you have questions about the position or our company. We're curious to know who you are and are open to talk even if you don't recognize yourself directly for 100% in this vacancy: join@breeze.social

At Breeze, we are building towards a future where people spend less time on their phones and more time connecting in real life. The Breeze app is the dating app for real dates. We've built the world's first service that organizes actual offline dates at scale.