Junior Data Platforms Engineer — GCP & APIs

Yapily; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary & equity

25 days holiday + extra

Hybrid working: up to 3 days WFH

Nomad working: up to 20 days/year

Enhanced parental leave

Private medical insurance (BUPA)

Mental health support

Pension plan

Learning budget £200/year

Cycle to work

Refer a Friend £1,000

Team socials and dog-friendly office

Job summary

Yapily in London is recruiting a Junior Software Engineer (Data Products) to help build and scale our modern, next-generation data platform. You’ll work on high-performance data pipelines and data APIs, with exposure to the Google Cloud Platform stack, while collaborating with BI and product teams to turn raw data into actionable value.

You will learn to design scalable data ingestion, support billing infrastructure, and participate in testing, monitoring, and agile ceremonies to rapidly grow

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2–3 years programming experience.
• Experience with SQL and basic schema design.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts.
• Understanding of REST APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Assist design and maintenance of scalable data ingestion and processing systems.
• Learn to deploy and maintain software using GCP services such as Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage.
• Collaborate with BI, infrastructure and product teams to understand data requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Help build and document APIs that deliver a seamless data experience for internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to optimize schemas and write efficient queries.
• Contribute to a reliable billing architecture within an event-driven environment.
• Participate in testing, monitoring, and logging to ensure system resilience.
• Engage in code reviews and agile ceremonies to level up technical skills and product knowledge.

Skills

Programming basics

SQL basics

Git & CI/CD

Problem solving

REST APIs

Education

CS/Software Eng degree

Tools

GCP

Docker

Airflow

BigQuery

Kafka

Spark

Terraform

Job description

Yapily in London is recruiting a Junior Software Engineer (Data Products) to help build and scale our modern, next-generation data platform. You’ll work on high-performance data pipelines and data APIs, with exposure to the Google Cloud Platform stack, while collaborating with BI and product teams to turn raw data into actionable value.

You will learn to design scalable data ingestion, support billing infrastructure, and participate in testing, monitoring, and agile ceremonies to rapidly grow