Data Engineer

YouLend; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative fintech company is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to enhance its data capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of infrastructure, DevOps, and modern data tooling, focusing on building a scalable and secure analytics platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, automate operations, and ensure data quality while leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AWS and Snowflake. Join a recognized leader in the embedded financing space, where your contributions will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of data solutions, all within a supportive and award-winning workplace.

Benefits

Stock Options

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Free Gym

Subsidised Lunch

Deliveroo Allowance

Monthly Masseuse

Team Socials

Football Power League

Squash Club

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake and Redshift.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage infrastructure for data platform using AWS and Snowflake.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud-based data platforms

CI/CD

Data governance

Streaming data architecture

Data quality monitoring

Cross-functional communication

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

DataDog

Job description

About Us

YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world's leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US. We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.

The Role:

We're looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our growing Data Engineering & Platform team. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, DevOps, and modern data tooling - with a focus on enabling fast, secure, and scalable analytics. To help us build and scale a best-in-class data platform to support everything from dashboards and experimentation to ML and compliance

Requirements

• Build and manage infrastructure for our data platform (AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow)

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for dbt and other data workflows

• Automate data platform operations with Python and infrastructure-as-code tools (Pulumi/Terraform)

• Collaborate with analytics, ML, product, and engineering teams to scale data solutions

• Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance through testing and monitoring

• Work with cost observability tools to ensure efficient platform usage

Essential:

• Proven experience working with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.)

• Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation and analytics

• Experience with CI/CD, preferably in dbt and/or data platforms

• Hands-on streaming data architecture experience

• Good understanding of orchestration tools like Airflow

• Strong communicator, with experience working cross-functionally

Desirable Skills:

• Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda, MWAA), Azure DevOps

• Platform: Snowflake, dbt Cloud, Fivetran

• Orchestration: Airflow (MWAA), dbt jobs

• Languages: Python, SQL

• IaC: Pulumi, Terraform

• Monitoring: DataDog

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 + 10% annual bonus

Benefits

Why work at YouLend?

• Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work 2024" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.

• Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC.

We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Stock Options

• Private Medical insurance via Vitality

• EAP with Health Assured

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London

• Free Gym in office building in Holborn

• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr

• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office

• Monthly in office Masseuse

• Team and Company Socials

• Football Power League / Squash Club

At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.