Job Description

Who are we?
We want to help small businesses win. That\'s why we\'re here.
We connect small business owners to investors - to create jobs, help families and power economies - because we believe that people are made to do more. And we want to help them get the finance they need to thrive, creating thousands of jobs as they drive the economy forward.
So, we created the leading online marketplace for small business loans. Our investors have lent \xc2\xa315.2 billion to 135,000 small business owners. In 2022, lending through Funding Circle\'s UK platform helped generate \xc2\xa36.9 billion in GDP while creating and sustaining 106,000 jobs. There\'s never been a better time to join!
Be part of the team that changes everything. Let\'s build the place where small businesses can get the funding they need to win and leave a legacy behind, forever.

The team
This role sits within "Data Engineering" part of our "Tech and Data" organisation.
We are looking for a data engineer to join us as we are adopting a data products approach to serving the data needs of the business and scaling our data ecosystem to enable the next generation of data-driven decisions at Funding Circle.
You will join the cross-functional data engineering team, a group of data and analytics engineers from diverse backgrounds who leverage the latest technologies to build robust and user-friendly data products. Our goal is to build centrally-managed data products focused on business outcomes and to enable our analytics, data science, and operational teams to create and manage their own data products.

What will you be doing?
We\'re looking for someone with a passion for wrangling data pipelines, solving data puzzles, and collaborating with analysts and data scientists.

• Promote software development approach to the data
• Work in short development cycles and with high deployment frequency to incrementally deliver data products, from data ingestion and transformation to dashboards, reports, and BI and ML pipelines.
• Contribute into technical design and ongoing development of templates, reference code examples, and code libraries for data products ETLs, and analytics and machine learning pipelines.
• Collaborate with the data platform team to identify and drive scaling and efficiency improvements for data tooling.
• Be an advocate for the use of engineering best practices

Are you?

• Knowledgeable about cloud computing and infrastructure. We are on AWS and work with Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, Redshift and more; but we have good experience transitioning new joiners from GCP and Azure.
• A strong programmer. We work mostly with Python.
• A very fluent and fast SQL developer. We use dbt for data modelling and apply software development standards to SQL.
• A confident dashboard creator with a dashboards-as-a-code mentality.
• Use software development best practices including CI/CD, observability, cost optimisation, security and more.
• Care about user experience for data consumers.
• Believe in the potential of data to drive better business outcomes.

Nice to have:

• Experience with more than one of Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Lake Formation, Tableau server
• Experience with AWS
• Understanding of Kubernetes and Terraform
• Experience with data security and access control
• Experience with metadata and data lineage management

Did you know?
Research shows that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn\'t align perfectly with the requirements. You might just be the perfect fit!

Why join us?
Talk to our recruiters about our workplace, culture and benefits. We have designed our offering around; Health, Wealth, Lifestyle & Development!
A few highlights are:

• Hybrid working environment (2 days a week in office), flexible working options with an amazing office and we will help support your home working set up
• Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Learning allowance AND other perks such as Gympass, Spill, Just Eat allowance, Electric Car Scheme and more!
• Access to Octopus Money Coach, Free Mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.

Want to Build The Incredible? We\'d love to hear from you.

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