Our client are looking for a flexible professional to join their mixed hybrid and remote Data Engineering team following a significant investment funding round. The successful candidate will work with their Research team and other data engineers to extend and improve the search features that power their service.

They are seeking a candidate that has a passion for building robust and deployable operational systems through solid engineering approaches.

The role…

• Hands-on role developing a system for internal users.
• Establishing requirements and scoping work.
• Deploying new pipelines and supporting infrastructure (including monitoring)
• Collaborating with the Research and Front-End teams to provide integrated systems.
• Reviewing your colleagues’ code and designs; and
• Being proactive in tackling problems when completing work.
• Be flexible and may be required to work on tasks outside of core Data Engineering responsibilities (including working with researchers on machine learning problems).
• Take a prominent role in defining architectures and roadmaps.

You will have…

• Extensive experience in data engineering or equivalent strong, relevant software engineering experience.
• Experienced with software engineering in Python.
• Experienced with software deployment with cloud technologies (including serverless frameworks, such as AWS Lambda or Google Function).
• Experience of working in an agile environment using Scrum or other process frameworks.
• Strong software engineering practices (including version control, unit testing and CI/CD tools).
• Experience using Linux.
• Enthusiasm for data projects and knowledge sharing.
• Good team working and communication skills.

Bonus points for…

• AWS (certification optional)
• RedisGraph
• Knowledge graphs
• Elasticsearch
• Data/Machine-Learning pipelines such as Apache Spark
• OpenAPI

Benefits…

• 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
• Flexible working hours and remote working
• Annual company retreat, Regular social activities and team building events
• Flexible employee wellness perks scheme, including coverage of gym memberships, adult education classes!
• Cycle to work scheme
• Learning and development budget of a £100 per month