Data Engineer

Freetrade; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Data Engineer, where your expertise in Python and SQL will be crucial in building robust data pipelines. This role offers the chance to work on high-impact projects that directly influence product development and business decisions. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and innovation, you'll be part of a dedicated team focused on leveraging data to enhance customer experiences. Enjoy a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a vibrant office culture that prioritizes teamwork and personal growth. If you're passionate about data and eager to make an impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Enhanced pension

Private Health Insurance

Learning & Development funding

Cycle to Work scheme

Paid Sick Leave

Flexibility for personal responsibilities

Enhanced parental leave

Group Life Insurance

Office first culture

Qualifications

• Experience writing data pipelines in Python and SQL.
• Deployed pipelines into production and monitored data quality.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines and deploy jobs into Kubernetes.
• Improve testing and quality monitoring capabilities.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Quality Monitoring

Data Protection

Cloud Computing

Tools

Kubernetes

BigQuery

Terraform

Google Cloud

Job description

Data Engineer

Department: Data

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Mike Stanley

Compensation: GBP 45,000 - GBP 70,000 / year

Description

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:

Office first culture - we have beautiful office spaces in central London and Budapest where four days a week you collaborate with colleagues in person, one of our core behaviours is that we're a team that works better together.

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 - Which 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.
• 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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