Senior Data Engineer

The company:

The company is redefining estate agency in the UK. For too long, sellers have been subjected to unresponsive agents and broken processes. With a combination of groundbreaking technology and expert local agents, the company is fixing the whole moving experience one problem at a time.

The company is built for movers, the first estate agent to support both the selling and buying process, for no extra fee. They can even make sellers chain-free, with our groundbreaking cash advance securing their ideal home before they sell.

They are a pioneering team, backed by Europe’s top VCs and led by an experienced, hands-on founding team. They are all contributing remotely to build a new era for home movers, with plans to optionally work from home 3 days of the week in the future. When work is over, there’s always been plenty of socialising, from film nights to sports days or more socially distanced activities in the park.

The Data Team:

The team mission is that data is a superpower for the company, from powering our customer-facing digital products through to enabling a data-led organisation. They are a small cross-functional team (engineers & analysts) looking to have an outsized impact. Their goal is to be a trusted partner for driving new insights and commercial opportunities and to empower our users (customers and colleagues) to make the best possible choices.

Requirements:

They are looking for an experienced software/data engineer with a keen interest in data and data-processing technologies, to help us fix the broken process of buying and selling homes in the UK. You’ll be joining the data team at an exciting juncture, focusing on:

• Modern technologies: our team works within a modern, modular data stack using GCP infrastructure, and follow software engineering best practices
• Enabling self-serve: For our customers to make the right choices, they need to be data-led. Our self-serve data platform enables this, and our data engineers take responsibility for the reliable and timely ELT processes and data pipelines which sit behind our Looker platform.
• Building product capabilities: our data engineers work closely with product engineering teams to understand data requirements in our digital products, and turn these requirements into a delivered solution
• Having a big impact: the success of our data engineers and our team is the business value they create, which means focusing on impactful areas and problems

The Candidate:

• First and foremost, you’re an established senior software engineer with many years of experience, well versed in agile engineering best practices, including version control, test-driven development and continuous integration
• You write clean, performant and well-documented code
• You have a strong understanding of Python and SQL, and are comfortable using them daily
• You’ve plenty of experience (and get a kick out of) mentoring more junior developers, and perhaps managing people
• You can compose simple solutions to complex problems
• It’s helpful, but not required, if you have hands-on experience working with data infrastructure and tooling
• It’s helpful, but not required, if you know a bit of statistics or machine learning

If the above describes you, then you should apply if:

• You’re excited by what the company is doing!
• You enjoy data & solving data problems
• You’d like to have ownership of the reliable and timely delivery of data for an organisation
• You’re curious, and love digging into business and product problems
• You’re an avid learner who enjoys picking-up new technologies, sharing knowledge with teammates, and is always developing as a person
• You’re comfortable working on open-ended questions and turning these to actionable outcomes, and are capable of self-direction
• You care about impact and working on the things which will ‘move-the-needle’ and make a startup successful

Benefits:

• Great salary, with regular performance reviews
• Generous options grant
• 4% employer pension contribution
• Private health insurance with gym discounts & more
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays
• Work From Home 3 days a week, and flexible working hours
• £1,000 personal development budget per year
• Generous maternity and paternity packages
• Kitchen stocked with breakfast, coffee and snacks, & catered Friday lunches including dietary options
• Monthly team social events

They are striving to build an inclusive team, but they recognise there is always more to be done. In the last year, they’ve focussed on running workshops in collaboration with tech bootcamps, promoting self-education through our anti-racism reading list, and building diversity into the engineering growth framework. If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how they can do better, they would love to hear from you.

The company embraces diversity and see it as a benefit to our company. That’s why they are committed to hiring top talent regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or status as an individual with a disability.

They are a growing team and happy to make any accommodations they can for individual needs. If you have an additional accessibility or other requirement they haven’t considered, they will do otheir best to adapt and make sure your needs are met.