Data Engineer

Freetrade; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is seeking a Data Engineer to build and monitor data pipelines. You will develop cloud-based applications and ensure data quality while collaborating with product teams. If you have strong skills in Python and SQL and a passion for data-driven decision making, this role is for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holidays plus public holidays

Enhanced pension scheme

Private Health Insurance

Learning & Development funding

Cycle to Work scheme

Paid Sick Leave

Qualifications

• Experience deploying pipelines into production.
• Ownership of regular processing and response to issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy data pipelines in Kubernetes.
• Improve data trust through testing and quality monitoring.
• Establish relationships with Product and Engineering teams.

Skills

Written data pipelines in Python and SQL

Monitoring data quality

Written clean, high-quality, testable code

Built data-centric applications in the cloud

Imported data from various sources

Knowledge of data protection and privacy

Tools

Google Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

Dagster

Job description

About Freetrade

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.

We’re changing that.

We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.

2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.

This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

Why join the Data team at Freetrade?

Data is at the core of how we make decisions, build products, and drive the business forward. This year, we’re scaling our data platform, refining self service analytics, and partnering across the business to tackle high impact projects. If you want to work on meaningful challenges where data turns into action, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the pipelines that put Freetrade’s data to work, deploying jobs into our Kubernetes cluster, writing Python code to orchestrate them in Dagster, and modelling the data in our BigQuery data warehouse.
• Evolve our testing, alerting and quality monitoring capabilities to continuously improve the trust of our data.
• Deploy data infrastructure through Terraform+Atlantis and write CICD pipelines.
• Improve the team’s operations, adding robustness and increasing efficiency.
• Build relationships with the Product and Engineering teams that produce our data and implement best practices for the data that we consume.

About You

• Written data pipelines from scratch in Python and SQL
• Deployed your pipelines into production and owned the regular processing they perform, monitoring data quality and responding to issues
• Experience writing clean, high-quality, testable code
• Built and deployed data pipelines and/or data-centric applications in the cloud, preferably Google Cloud
• Imported data from a wide variety of data sources including relational and NoSQL databases, APIs, cloud storage, etc
• Knowledge of data protection, data security, and privacy best practices

Benefits

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

Hybrid working culture

We’re operating in a hybrid model: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our beautiful offices in central London and Budapest are designed to bring people together.

Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday

This setup helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and keep building a culture where we all do our best work together, including dedicated days for focus work.

Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility let’s talk about it, whether you’re a parent or have other care responsibilities.

Values - at Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!

Benefits In London:

• Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
• Holidays – 25 days plus UK public holidays. Your birthday off, plus one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
• Enhanced pension – We’ll match your contributions up to 5%.
• Group Life Insurance – Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance.
• Private Health Insurance – Includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.
• Bonus Scheme – Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact. First payouts: July 2026
• Income Protection Cover – Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
• Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
• Flexibility for those who need it – We’re office-first, but life happens. Whether you’re a parent or have care responsibilities, we focus on output and trust you to manage your time.
• Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax free monthly installments.
• Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.

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