Senior Software Engineer (Data)

Lendable Ltd; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech company in Camden Town is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data). You will help develop and scale data infrastructure utilizing AWS, Snowflake, and Python. Responsibilities include creating tooling for product teams, onboarding new data sources, and ensuring platform security. Ideal candidates will have experience with data-intensive applications and skills in CI/CD practices. The company offers competitive compensation and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Best-in-class compensation, including equity

Flexibility to work from home

Private health insurance

Qualifications

• Strong software development skills, particularly in Python or similar languages.
• Solid engineering practices in automated testing and deployment.
• Experience with cloud services, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop new tooling for product teams to enhance efficiency.
• Collaborate with the team to maintain and scale data infrastructure on AWS.
• Implement security best practices for data management.

Skills

Python programming

Data engineering practices

AWS services

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

GitHub Actions

Fivetran

Kubernetes

Airflow

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer (Data), you'll help shape and scale our data infrastructure, making analytics faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient. You'll work with AWS, Snowflake, Python, and Terraform, building tooling, and onboarding new data sources. You'll collaborate closely with teams across the business, ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, and easy to use. Our team mission is to maximise business value by improving efficiency in our Analytics, enhancing Lendable's competitive advantage through data utilisation. The Data Platform is designed to streamline the efficiency of analysis in extracting insights from data, while also ensuring cost control, compliance, and security.

Responsibilities

1. Develop new tooling for product teams to boost their efficiency.
2. Work with the wider team in maintaining, evolving and scaling data infrastructure solutions on AWS and Snowflake.
3. Onboard new ingestion sources and maintain the smooth running and monitoring.
4. Ensure platform robustness through automated testing and monitoring of data pipelines aligned to the expected scaling of Lendable.
5. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
6. Optimise existing CI/CD pipelines for faster cycle times and increased reliability.
7. Implement security best practices for data management and infrastructure on cloud platforms.
8. Design and deploy infrastructure as code to manage cloud resources efficiently.
9. Assist in the troubleshooting and resolution of production issues to minimise downtime and improve user satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Strong software development, particularly in Python or a similar language.
• Solid engineering practices, including automated testing, deployment systems, and configuration as code.
• Experience with building data intensive applications and containerised services.
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or equivalent (preference for AWS).
• Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Knowledge of columnar databases, such as Snowflake.
• Experience in developing and optimising CI/CD pipelines, with a preference for GitHub Actions.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with business analysts and stakeholders, ensuring technical solutions meet business needs.
• Experience with data ingestion tools, like Fivetran.
• Advantageous: Exposure to deploying applications with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Data Orchestrator tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc.).
• Experience with Data Observability tools (Montecarlo, Great Expectations, etc.).
• Experience with Data Catalog tools (Amundsen, OpenMetadata, etc.).

About Lendable

• Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier.
• One of the UK's newest unicorns with a team of just over 600 people.
• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK.
• Profitable since 2017.
• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs.
• Loved by customers with high Trustpilot ratings.
• We have rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance.
• We’re growing fast and targeting the UK and US markets where large financial products are held by banks with dated systems.

Why join

• Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1.
• Work in small teams of exceptional people who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems.
• Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting.
• The opportunity to scale up one of the world\'s most successful fintech companies.
• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
• Flexibility to work from home on Mondays and Fridays if you wish; UK-based teammates meet in the Shoreditch office on other days.
• Fully stocked office kitchen with breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks Tuesday–Thursday.
• Private health insurance and well-being coverage.