Senior Data Backend Engineer (Semantic Business Information) (Remote - United Kingdom)

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Data Backend Engineer to join their innovative Semantic Business Information team. This role offers the opportunity to build and support backend platforms that collect and curate vital business data, impacting millions of consumers. You'll collaborate with various engineering groups to create APIs and ensure data quality, all while working in a dynamic, supportive environment. Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and numerous perks that promote your career growth and well-being. If you're passionate about data and technology, this role is perfect for you!

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

25 days paid holiday

Remote working reimbursement

Caregiver reimbursement

Private health insurance

Flexible working hours

Hackathons and learning groups

Wellness expenses reimbursement

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and backend platforms.
• Skilled in building effective APIs and managing requirements across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend platforms for trusted business data.
• Collaborate with engineering groups to create APIs and streaming solutions.
• Ensure high data quality through monitoring tools and services.

Skills

Fluency in an object-oriented language (Python or Java)

SQL or NoSQL

Unix

Continuous Integration/Deployment

API design and development (REST or GraphQL)

Performance analysis tools

Requirements gathering and management

Tools

Performance analysis tools

Job description

Senior Data Backend Engineer (Semantic Business Information) (Remote - United Kingdom), Edinburgh

Client:

Yelp

Location:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

4e6b8670c990

Job Views:

10

Posted:

02.04.2025

Expiry Date:

17.05.2025

Job Description:

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

Ever wish some information about a business was immediately at your fingertips? Interested in exploring that data, finding inventive ways to collect, curate, and make it easily accessible for others to use? How about doing that at scale? Does taking millions of these data points and helping hundreds of millions of consumers connect with millions of businesses sound exciting? Come and join us!

The Semantic Business Information (SBI) team at Yelp is looking for a data backend engineer to help build and support this platform. We implement the platforms that collect, curate, and serve critical and up-to-date information about all businesses on Yelp. We then provide any internal team this structured business information, so that they, in turn, can create richer user experiences. We are the backbone for the most important content that Yelp provides consumers and we would love to welcome a great engineer in our team!

This opportunity requires you to be located in the United Kingdom. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

1. Build, extend, and support our backend platforms to collect all trusted business data.
2. Collaborate with other engineering groups, such as Search, Local Services, and Ads to build instant-access APIs and streaming solutions that make it easy for them to consume business data.
3. Partner with our database teams to select and optimize the appropriate storage solutions for our scalability needs.
4. Create tools and services that regularly monitor and ensure this data is of high quality.
5. Make build-or-buy decisions that help reach our business goals.

What it takes to succeed:

1. Fluency in an object-oriented language (like Python or Java), SQL or NoSQL, Unix, developing within a Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline.
2. Experienced in designing, building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website.
3. In-depth experience building effective APIs (like REST or GraphQL).
4. Comfortable with performance analysis tools (e.g. tracers, profilers, debuggers, visualization tools).
5. Skilled at effectively gathering, aligning, and managing requirements across multiple teams.
6. Experience or an interest in developing infrastructure supporting data-intensive applications.

What you'll get:

1. Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.
2. Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
3. 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
4. £150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
5. £81 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.
6. Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
7. Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
8. Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.
9. Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.
10. £81 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.
11. Quarterly team offsites.

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