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Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline đźš„

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey!

Job Description

đź’» Senior Data Engineer đź“ŤLondon (Hybrid, 40% in office) đź’¸ ÂŁSalary + Benefits

Introducing Data Engineering at Trainline đź‘‹

Data Engineering is essential to how we unlock the value of data at Trainline. Our mission is to liberate Trainline data and delight customers with great data products built on a frictionless, modern data platform. Our data products include machine learning models that add real value to the customer journey, streaming data applications that personalize the customer experience in real time, dashboards that drive deep business and customer insight and intuitive and efficient data marts and metrics built on our modern data lakehouse.

As a Senior Data Engineer (Scala), you will be part of a cross-functional data product team working alongside data scientists, machine learning engineers and BI engineers. Our data product teams are deeply embedded in the business so your work will have high impact by either drive key business decisions, provide deep customer insights or by adding intelligent machine learning experiences right in the core of our customer journeys.

We use an agile delivery playbook that encourages incremental and iterative delivery, aims to release value early and often, measure the impact of work and using hypotheses to ensure we are solving real customer problems. Our data platform is a modern, cloud-native, lake house using best-of-breed technologies and partners, all based on the AWS public cloud.

We empower our Data teams and give engineers high levels of autonomy and freedom to innovate. We encourage continuous learning with clear career progression plans, innovation/hack days and training opportunities such as DataCamp.

As a Senior Scala Data Engineer at Trainline, you will...

  • Use cutting-edge Data technology to deliver world-class data products using a combination of streaming technologies, machine learning and automated data pipelines.
  • Work in self-organised, cross-functional data teams alongside machine learning engineers, BI engineers and product managers.
  • Drive continuous improvement to the software engineering and agile working practices of the team.
  • Contribute to the Technical / Architecture direction of the team.

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍

  • Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment where impact is as valuable as technical skill
  • Have excellent knowledge of Scala and the JVM ecosystem
  • Possess strong understanding of functional programming paradigms and a willingness to adopt other languages (not only JVM languages)
  • Have consistent background in software development in high volume environments
  • Have a pragmatic and open-minded approach to achieving outcomes in the simplest way possible
  • Have worked with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Storm, AWS Kinesis, etc)
  • Have experience with AWS services especially EMR, ECS, EKS.
  • Have an obsession with software quality, Dev Ops and automation
  • Work well in lean, agile, cross-functional product teams using Scrum and Kanban practices
  • Are a good communicator and comfortable with presenting ideas and outputs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Our technology stack đź’»

  • Python
  • Scala and the JVM
  • Kafka, Kafka Streams and KSQL
  • AWS, S3, Parquet, Iceberg, Glue and EMR for our Data Lake
  • Terraform and Docker
  • Elasticsearch and Dynamodb
  • Spark and Airflow
  • Trinio (Starburst) and Presto (Athena)
  • ML Flow and popular Python machine learning and analysis libraries

The interview process 🚉

  1. Recruiter Call (30 mins)
  2. Meet the manager (30 mins)
  3. Technical discussion with x2 Engineers (60 mins)
  4. Meeting a cross-functional team member (30 mins)

Additional Information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day, in everything we do:

  • đź’­ Think Big - We're building the future of rail
  • ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
  • 🤝 ​Travel Together - We're one team
  • ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor.

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline đźš„

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey!

Job Description

đź’» Senior Data Engineer đź“ŤLondon (Hybrid, 40% in office) đź’¸ ÂŁSalary + Benefits

Introducing Data Engineering at Trainline đź‘‹

Data Engineering is essential to how we unlock the value of data at Trainline. Our mission is to liberate Trainline data and delight customers with great data products built on a frictionless, modern data platform. Our data products include machine learning models that add real value to the customer journey, streaming data applications that personalize the customer experience in real time, dashboards that drive deep business and customer insight and intuitive and efficient data marts and metrics built on our modern data lakehouse.

As a Senior Data Engineer (Scala), you will be part of a cross-functional data product team working alongside data scientists, machine learning engineers and BI engineers. Our data product teams are deeply embedded in the business so your work will have high impact by either drive key business decisions, provide deep customer insights or by adding intelligent machine learning experiences right in the core of our customer journeys.

We use an agile delivery playbook that encourages incremental and iterative delivery, aims to release value early and often, measure the impact of work and using hypotheses to ensure we are solving real customer problems. Our data platform is a modern, cloud-native, lake house using best-of-breed technologies and partners, all based on the AWS public cloud.

We empower our Data teams and give engineers high levels of autonomy and freedom to innovate. We encourage continuous learning with clear career progression plans, innovation/hack days and training opportunities such as DataCamp.

As a Senior Scala Data Engineer at Trainline, you will...

  • Use cutting-edge Data technology to deliver world-class data products using a combination of streaming technologies, machine learning and automated data pipelines.
  • Work in self-organised, cross-functional data teams alongside machine learning engineers, BI engineers and product managers.
  • Drive continuous improvement to the software engineering and agile working practices of the team.
  • Contribute to the Technical / Architecture direction of the team.

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍

  • Thrive in a diverse, open and collaborative environment where impact is as valuable as technical skill
  • Have excellent knowledge of Scala and the JVM ecosystem
  • Possess strong understanding of functional programming paradigms and a willingness to adopt other languages (not only JVM languages)
  • Have consistent background in software development in high volume environments
  • Have a pragmatic and open-minded approach to achieving outcomes in the simplest way possible
  • Have worked with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Storm, AWS Kinesis, etc)
  • Have experience with AWS services especially EMR, ECS, EKS.
  • Have an obsession with software quality, Dev Ops and automation
  • Work well in lean, agile, cross-functional product teams using Scrum and Kanban practices
  • Are a good communicator and comfortable with presenting ideas and outputs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Our technology stack đź’»

  • Python
  • Scala and the JVM
  • Kafka, Kafka Streams and KSQL
  • AWS, S3, Parquet, Iceberg, Glue and EMR for our Data Lake
  • Terraform and Docker
  • Elasticsearch and Dynamodb
  • Spark and Airflow
  • Trinio (Starburst) and Presto (Athena)
  • ML Flow and popular Python machine learning and analysis libraries

The interview process 🚉

  1. Recruiter Call (30 mins)
  2. Meet the manager (30 mins)
  3. Technical discussion with x2 Engineers (60 mins)
  4. Meeting a cross-functional team member (30 mins)

Additional Information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day, in everything we do:

  • đź’­ Think Big - We're building the future of rail
  • ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
  • 🤝 ​Travel Together - We're one team
  • ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor.

Company benefits

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Work from anywhere scheme – work from abroad for up to 28 days a year
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2 extra days over the Festive period & 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
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Buy or sell annual leave – buy or sell up to 3 days each year
family
Shared parental leave
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Carer’s leave – primary & secondary
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L&D budget – £300 a year
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Personal development days – 4 meeting free Learning Days a year
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Health insurance – Bupa Health Insurance for you and your family
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Enhanced sick pay – 8 weeks full pay, 18 weeks 75% pay per 12 month period
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Free meals – free breakfast & soft drinks every day, monthly lunches and evening socials
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Share options
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Dental coverage – Bupa Dental Insurance for you and your family
hospital
Health assessment – Free annual health check for all employees
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Life assurance
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Accrued annual leave – carry over 5 days of annual leave each year
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Income protection – 75% of your salary
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Private GP service – with Bupa
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Complimentary Medical Services – Flu vaccinations
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Employee assistance programme
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Adoption leave – 52 weeks
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Fertility treatment leave
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Pregnancy loss leave – 2 weeks
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Compassionate leave
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Mental health platform access
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Eye Care Support – vouchers
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Annual pay rises – Based on bi-annual performance reviews
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Salary sacrifice
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Volunteer days – 1 day a year to volunteer with a charity of your choice
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Charity donation scheme – Charity matching & Give as you earn
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Perkbox subscription
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Professional subscriptions
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Hackathons
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Gym membership – GymFlex scheme
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Cycle to work scheme
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Faith rooms
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Buddy scheme
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Optional unpaid leave
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Open to compressed hours
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Open to job sharing
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Open to part time work for some roles
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Flexible working week
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Travel loan
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Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Trainline what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
73%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
79%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
70%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
69%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
72%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
71%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
77%
Employees enjoy the working environment
Mission
79%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
64%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Trainline

Company employees

1000+

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Office Locations