Data Engineer

Job Description

At a Glance

Us: Fast-growing startup of 100+ people. We are a remote-first team, mainly based in the UK. YC alumni (summer 2019) and Series A funding of 32$m in 2023. Our mission is to revolutionise how the world learns about people, so people can revolutionise the world.🚀

The Role

We are looking for an early-career Data Engineer to join our newly formed data platform team. Your primary responsibility in this role will be to design, build, and maintain data pipelines utilising tools such as Meltano, Stitch, and DBT. You'll work on extracting and transforming data from a variety of sources and processing and storing it in the cloud using tools like Redshift, AWS, and Terraform.

This is a unique opportunity for you to apply your skills and knowledge to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions while working alongside a team of highly motivated individuals in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about data engineering and eager to contribute to the success of a growing organisation, we encourage you to apply today.

What you'll be doing

• Identify data needs for the business and product teams, understand their specific requirements for metrics and analysis, and build efficient and scalable data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions.
• Utilise SQL and DBT for the development of data models to facilitate data analysis.
• Write Python "taps" to pull data from the APIs of various sources, including PayPal, Hubspot, and Zendesk.
• Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources.
• Develop relationships with engineering teams to manage our data structures as the product evolves.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for reliable data infrastructure.
• Ingest financial data reliably and regularly, and ensure data quality and completeness.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline issues, and proactively identify opportunities for optimisation and improvement.
• Build automation and tests to ensure our data pipeline is high quality, trustworthy, and scalable.

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• Strong skills in Python, SQL, and experience designing robust applications.
• Experience with data pipelines and ETL tools, including data warehousing technologies, such as Redshift or BigQuery.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work with stakeholders to understand requirements.
• Passion for data and a desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Even better if you have

• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS or GCP, as well as Infrastructure As Code, such as Terraform.
• Experience working with APIs to read or send data.
• Experience with ML-Ops.
• Experience with data governance and data cataloguing tools.

What you’ll get

⚖️ Work-Life Balance: We’re all looking to strike the right work-life balance, and as a remote-first company you’re able to work flexibly from your home in the UK or our dog-friendly co-working space in Shoreditch. We offer 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays of course, which you can switch with any day of your choosing. We also have adjusted hours where the whole company finishes 2 hours earlier on Fridays.

🏡 Family Life: We offer generous maternity, paternity and shared parental leave. Need to pick your child up from school? No Problem. Our flexible working gives you the childcare flexibility you need.

💰 Pension: We offer a salary sacrifice pension with a 3% starting employer contribution.

📈 Share Options: An exciting option to buy shares of Prolific in the future.

🧘 Wellbeing: We care deeply about our employees well-being, that’s why we offer comprehensive Bupa private health insurance, that disregards medical history. Taxable monthly stipend of £150 in order for you to improve your wellness and remote experience. We want you to have a happy and healthy environment so we offer a £1000 home office budget, along with a Apple MacBook Pro when you start, plus a £200 yearly top-up.

📚 Learn & Grow: Development is important to us, and we want to give all our employees the opportunity to learn. There are many personal growth and career progression opportunities available, as well as mentoring. We also offer a £1000 yearly budget for education, growth and training for you to use at your discretion.

💙 Culture: We’re a friendly bunch here at Prolific; open, transparent and inclusive. Although we’re a remote first company we still love to hang out with each other! We run collaborative quarterly company-wide meets up and team socials (both virtually and in-person), all paid for. Alongside this we offer a £1000 yearly budget for discretionary meet-ups so you can cover travel, food and accommodation. As a business we’re also committed to carbon offsetting; each month we donate money in your name to plant trees 🌳 and being remote we’re doing our bit to offset travel too

Our Interview Process

Talent Call: You'll meet with one of our Talent team and have an exploratory call about the role requirements, life at Prolific, as well as your background and aspirations.

Hiring Manager Interview: You'll interview with two members of the team, one of which will be the hiring manager. You'll have the opportunity to ask about the company and the role, and we'll ask you questions about your experiences and goals. Panel Interview: We'll hold a panel interview that evaluates skills required for the role. You'll meet with more of our team and may be asked to complete a presentation or task. You'll be compensated with a £50 voucher 💰 for completing the task because we know your time is valuable! Final Interview: We will deep dive into your past experiences, goals, motivations, and skills all aligned to our Prolific Principles. You'll speak with two to three members of the team and - as always - have an opportunity to ask questions about the role and company.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Monitoring

Prolific is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome all applications, and consider them without regard to race, religion, belief, age, gender, gender expression, gender identity, gender reassignment, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, sex or sexual orientation.

We are committed to ensuring a fair recruitment process, it's essential to our success. Under the Equality Act (2010) we collect information from individuals at the point of application. We anonymously monitor the profiles of individuals that apply to each vacancy to ensure that no individual is unfairly discriminated against or disadvantaged.

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