Senior Software Engineer (Data)

RVU Co UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Employer-matching pension contributions

£300 ‘work from home’ budget

25 days holiday + 2 days ‘my time’

Private medical cover

Free breakfast in the office daily

Job summary

RVU Co UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data) to join the Engineering department. This role involves designing and maintaining data pipelines while optimizing the data infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be proficient in programming languages such as Python or Java and have experience with AWS or GCP services.

With a hybrid working approach, the role provides flexibility with 2 in-office days and benefits such as a yearly bonus, pension contributions, and a generous holiday package. Join us in transforming the way consumers manage their households!

Qualifications

• Experience with data modelling techniques from various data sources.
• Experience with AWS products like S3, Lambda, and Kinesis.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code principles.

Responsibilities

• Create end-to-end data solutions for business teams.
• Design and optimise a cloud-based ELT platform.
• Monitor and respond to data incidents.

Skills

Building data lakes and data warehouses

Designing ETL pipelines using MPP frameworks

Orchestrating pipelines using Airflow

Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go

Experience with AWS or GCP

Experience with analytics databases like Redshift

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Data)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office (Tuesdays & Thursdays)

Uswitch

At Uswitch, our goal is to be the UK’s favourite way to choose and manage home-life essentials – from broadband and mobiles to energy and insurance. As we continue to grow and expand our services, we are looking for talented individuals who share our passion for making a positive impact on people's lives. If you want to be part of a team that is transforming the way consumers navigate their household services, we would love to hear from you!

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Confused, Tempcover, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.

The team

Our Marketing Enablement team builds and manages the systems that help turn data into something useful. We work closely with multiple teams like CRM, PPC & analytics to ship the pipelines, integrations and tooling behind how we find and talk to customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help design, build, and maintain our data pipelines and the services around them. You'll bring strong software engineering fundamentals to a data-heavy domain, writing maintainable code, owning systems end-to-end, and improving how we collect, model, and activate data across the organisation.

What you'll be doing

• Work with cross-functional teams to create end-to-end data solutions that support our analysts and business teams
• Design, implement, and optimise a cloud-based Extract-Load-Transform (ELT) platform to reshape RVU’s data infrastructure and data warehouse
• Become an expert on handling behavioural data from more than three websites and dozens of e-commerce product areas, serving millions of users every month
• Build systems that enable self-service analytics and pave the way for data science applications across our businesses
• Monitor performance metrics for how Data is produced and consumed, and respond to Data incidents.

What we're looking for

• Experience building, designing, refactoring or optimising data lakes and data warehouses from a variety of data sources using data modelling techniques
• Experience in Building Extract Transform and Load (ETL) pipeline (streaming / batch) using MPP frameworks (Spark, Beam, or other)
• Experience in orchestrating complex pipelines using Airflow, Dagster or other
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Python, Java, GO or other
• Experience with AWS or GCP and their products (S3, GCS, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Lambda/Cloud functions, DataProc)
• Experience with one of the main databases for analytics (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake or other).

Nice to have

• Experience modelling and transforming data from event collection to report curation, especially for e-commerce or affiliate businesses
• Experience building production‑grade ML pipelines
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or other)
• Experience using CI/CD principles.

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list – so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

Our commitment to you

We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user‑friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this, it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What we offer

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in‑office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer‑matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one‑off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Free in‑office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events – from team socials to company‑wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.