Junior Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Lendable; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Hybrid working

Retirement & savings

Office meals & snacks

Flexible working

Job summary

Lendable is hiring a Junior Data Platform Engineer in London to join a fast-growing fintech team. You will work with senior engineers to tackle complex data challenges, taking ownership of your areas and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll collaborate with product, analytics and engineering teams to enable fast, iterative analytics while maintaining reliability, cost control, and security.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals and the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Solid programming ability (Python or similar).
• Strong experience with Snowflake (or similar warehouses).
• Good understanding of software engineering patterns and architectures.
• Experience building data-intensive systems.
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform ideally).
• CI/CD best practices.
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (Lambda/Kappa).
• A self-starter who takes ownership and drives work forward.
• Strong problem solver who focuses on understanding before building.
• Good judgement on build vs buy decisions.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping direction.
• Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to manage multiple streams of work without losing momentum.
• Pragmatic, balancing speed with scalability and reliability.
• Actively looks to improve ways of working, including leveraging AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own areas of the problem and deliver pragmatic, scalable data platform solutions.
• Collaborate with product, analytics and engineering teams with autonomy.
• Shape how teams interact with data and enable fast, iterative analytics.
• Maintain strong foundations around reliability, cost, and security.

Skills

Python

SQL

Terragrunt

JavaScript

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Argo

GitHub Actions

HashiCorp Vault

Datadog

Grafana

Preset

Claude

Tools

Terragrunt

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Argo

GitHub Actions

HashiCorp Vault

Datadog

Grafana

Preset

Claude

AWS

GCP

Job description

Lendable is hiring a Junior Data Platform Engineer in London to join a fast-growing fintech team. You will work with senior engineers to tackle complex data challenges, taking ownership of your areas and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll collaborate with product, analytics and engineering teams to enable fast, iterative analytics while maintaining reliability, cost control, and security.