Junior Data Engineer

The role

You will work alongside senior team members to solve complex challenges and deliver scalable solutions. You will work with product, analytics, and engineering teams to enable fast, iterative analytics while maintaining reliability, cost, and security.

What you will do

• Tackle complex challenges and take ownership of problem areas
• Understand business challenges and break them down
• Deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions
• Work closely with product, analytics, and engineering teams
• Proactively gather context and align stakeholders
• Enable fast, iterative analytics
• Maintain foundations around reliability, cost, and security

Required qualifications

• Solid programming ability (Python or similar)
• Strong experience with Snowflake (or similar warehouses)
• Good understanding of software engineering patterns and architectures
• Experience building data-intensive systems
• Cloud experience
• Infrastructure as code
• CI/CD best practices
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (Lambda/Kappa)
• Self-starter who takes ownership and drives work forward
• Strong problem solver
• Good judgement on build vs buy decisions
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping direction

Nice to have

• AWS preferred
• Terraform ideally

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Socials and connection opportunities
• Private health cover
• Retirement savings plans
• Employee referral programme
• Fully stocked kitchen
• Complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
• Cycle-to-work scheme in select locations
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes in select locations

Before you apply

• Initial call with Talent team
• Hiring manager call
• Technical interview
• Final interview with VP of Platform

About the company

Lendable is a fintech company building technology to help people get credit and save money. It is a UK unicorn with a team of over 800 people.