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Senior Data Engineer

UK or Portugal
 

Location: UK or Portugal

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

  • Crafting excellent products! You will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients and customers
  • Continuously delivering changes to products, as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model
  • Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating and on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better
  • Learning, growing, and mentoring the engineering team to accelerate their career growth and encourage them to progress
  • Working with the Lead to architect, design, build, and deliver highly available, always-on, zero downtime products
  • Being responsible for the production operation and monitoring of products in line with SLAs
  • Driving good practices within your team, making an impact on the whole department
  • Participating in regular show and tells, promoting your work to both your department and the wider company

Technical competencies:

  • Proven experience writing highly maintainable, performant Python and JavaScript code;
  • Experience building modern data pipelines using dbt, Kafka, Spark, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Apache Airflow (or similar);
  • Understanding of Data Modelling patterns;
  • Deep knowledge of complex SQL, with emphasis on Common Table Expressions, window functions, and their performance;
  • Experience with end-to-end monitoring & alerting experience (CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.).

Non-Technical competencies:

  • Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
  • Comfortable working in a dynamic production environment and taking care of client expectations effectively;
  • Distinct customer focus and quality mindset;
  • Experience working closely with engineering leadership and architects to deliver high-quality solutions;
  • Experience maintaining a high degree of ownership and transparency in deliverables;
  • An exemplar of YLD’s brand and safe-guarder of our reputation;
  • Exceptional communication skills, able to communicate complex ideas simply.

Benefits you'll get:

  • Company Private Health care
  • Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
  • Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only)
  • 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
  • £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
  • £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
  • Mental Health support: access to Spill app
  • Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
  • Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
  • Company laptop
  • Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

  • 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
  • Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)

Get a glimpse of what it's like working at YLD! 🤳

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

  • Growing every day
  • Including everyone
  • Relationships built on honesty and ethics
  • Inspiring solutions
  • Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

 

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