Data Engineer

Capital on Tap; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in London is seeking a Data Engineer to join their Data Platform team. The role entails designing and maintaining scalable data infrastructure and ensuring top-notch data availability across the organization. Ideal candidates will have experience with Snowflake, strong Python skills, and an innovative approach to solving data challenges. This position offers a hybrid work model with a range of benefits.

Benefits

Private Healthcare including dental services

Worldwide travel insurance

Anniversary Rewards

28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget

Enhanced Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer, designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms.
• Deep experience with Snowflake, including advanced features like dynamic data masking.
• Strong Python skills for data engineering, scripting, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Own the flow and security of data in our Snowflake data warehouse.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub for automated testing and deployment.

Skills

Data Engineering

Python

Snowflake

SQL

Stakeholder Management

Problem-solving

Tools

GitHub

Kubernetes

Job description

We’re Capital on Tap Capital on Tap was founded with the mission to help small business owners and make their lives easier. Today, we provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform that helps business owners save time and money. Capital on Tap proudly serves over 200,000 businesses across the world and our goal is to help 1 million small businesses by 2030.

Why Join Us We empower you to be innovative and solve complex problems. Take ownership, make an impact, and thrive in our scaling and agile environment.

This is a Hybrid role, 2 days per week in our London Office.

Data Engineering Team at Capital on Tap

The Data Platform team is responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and optimising our modern data infrastructure and platforms. Our main goal is to ensure the organisation has seamless access to high-quality, reliable, and performant data, from ingestion through to consumption by various teams. We work on key projects involving data pipeline development, platform management, and data quality assurance.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Data Engineer, you will play a central role in our growing Data Platform team, focusing on designing, building, maintaining, and optimising our modern data infrastructure and platforms. You will be instrumental in ensuring the organisation has seamless access to high-quality, reliable, and performant data. This is a hands-on position requiring deep technical expertise in automating the management of Snowflake for a rapidly scaling team and building robust python applications, collaborating closely with various teams across the business.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient data pipelines and infrastructure, utilising Python for custom data transformations, API integrations, and orchestration.
• Own the flow and security of data in our Snowflake data warehouse and its component parts, ensuring optimal data delivery architecture and data availability for global business operations.
• Implement and manage data platforms leveraging Kubernetes for efficient deployment, orchestration, and scaling of data services and applications.
• Develop and implement internal process improvements, including CI/CD pipelines using GitHub for automated testing, deployment, and version control.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business, including Engineering, Data Scientists and Analytics Engineering teams, to gather requirements and deliver high-impact data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability across our data platform, implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and testing frameworks.
• Solve complex technical problems in ambiguous situations, demonstrating a strong ability to identify root causes and implement innovative, efficient solutions to intricate data challenges.
• Maintain our data infrastructure for efficiency and consistency across multiple regions.

Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer, designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Deep experience with Snowflake, including advanced features like dynamic data masking, row-level security, data backups and ELT tools.
• Strong Python skills for data engineering, scripting, and automation.
• Strong SQL performance, with a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with GitHub, CI/CD, and collaborative development.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, capable of navigating and resolving complex technical challenges in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable working with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• A strong focus on data automation, reliability, testing, and performance.
• Track record of delivering clean, well-documented, and production-grade data assets and infrastructure.
• Strategic mindset with experience contributing to and delivering against a team roadmap, balancing business priorities with technical improvements and managing technical debt.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes for deploying data services

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Benefits

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
• Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
• Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• 6 free therapy sessions per year
• Dog Friendly Offices
• Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Interview Process

• First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner (Video call)
• Second stage: 45 minute CV overview with Team Manager (Video call)
• Final stage: 60 minute technical assessment with Head of Department (In person)

Excited to work here? Apply! If you’d like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days.).

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