Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

Joining our Data Platform Team, you will play an integral part of transforming how we manage and utilise our data as we build our our data platform capabilities in GCP. Our Engineers are encouraged to collaborate and bring their ideas on how we approach projects, with the teams empowered to have autonomy and independence in their roles.

Holding the role of a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to mentor other members of the Engineering team - supporting us to continually develop and push the boundaries of what scaling, multi-product FinTech organisation can achieve.

Who are you?

• You are a Software or Data Engineer with proven experience developing software to solve complex and ambiguous business problems. You enjoy the whole software development lifecycle, from ideation, to building, maintenance, collecting feedback and continuous improvement.

• You are fascinated about working in the context of a platform team, understanding deeply how other engineering teams in the organisation deploy data products, and making it easier for them to do so.

• You’re collaborative, action driven, and tend towards delivering software early and then improving iteratively, proactively working with your users to anticipate their needs. You do this while defending the quality, security and performance requirements of the platform that you’re working on.

• You are comfortable making trade-offs for speed of delivery, quality, and extensibility, while articulating what those choices are and why they’ve been made to people both within and outside of engineering

• You know how to contribute and collaborate as part of a high performing team. You optimise for team performance over individual performance. You mentor other engineers, teaching them in your areas of expertise and support them to deliver at a faster pace.

The interview process

1. Screening call with Chess (Internal Recruiter, Online)
2. Technical interview task with a member of Engineering (Online)
3. System Design task with two members of the engineering team (In Person, approx 1hr)
4. Experience and interview with the Hiring Manager & our VP of Engineering (In Person, approx 1hr)

What we think you'll need:

• Proven experience with at least one modern programming language, preferably Python, C#, Java, or Javascript/Typescript
• Proficiency with the SQL family of query languages, and relational databases, such as MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, or BigQuery, alongside a great understanding of data warehouse design principles/best practices
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Experience building and iterating on ETL or ELT data pipelines

N.B - there is an ‘on-call’ element to this role, which Chess will outline at the screening stage

Next steps If this opportunity feels like the right fit for your next career move, we’d love to hear from you!

Even if you don’t meet every requirement, don’t hesitate to apply or reach out to Chess (Internal Recruiter) on [email protected]

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