Senior Data Engineer

⚡️ Your mission

We strongly believe that data holds the key to unlock innovation in social care. It is the foundation of how we learn as a company as well as how we enable our customers to improve their services.

Our applications and services generate a wealth of rich data - it is essential that we're able to process, analyse and deliver as much of it as possible to improve the lives of older adults.

You will maintain and improve our next-generation data platform, enabling Birdie services to exchange data in real-time - allowing product squads to quickly develop features building on information captured by other services. Your efforts will also give product managers and designers the ability to analyse and improve how users interact with Birdie products.

You’ll be working in the Data and Analytics team, within the Internal Platform flock. You’ll also be working closely with all product squads to make sure that the right data is available at the right time to solve real customer problems.

This role will report into our Head of Platform.

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute

Maintain and improve our data architecture using the right technologies to solves todays problems as well as the problems Birdie will face over the next 18 months:

• Birdie’s data footprint double every quarter so we need to use scalable technologies to ensure data remains readily accessible for our customers as well as Birdie employees
• Our product architecture is becoming increasingly decentralised - it’s crucial that product services are able to reliable share data sets amongst each other in real time

Build data infrastructure, tools and documentation - enabling product squads to:

• Dramatically reduce time taken to source, process, model and public datasets
• Improve the accuracy, reliability and re-usability of datasets

Other areas of contribute will include:

• Help to maintain and scale a resilient architecture to store & exchange data with multiple providers in the healthcare industry;
• Implement, maintain, and scale our data pipelines - for both third party and internal sources;
• Develop production grade data models for consumption both internally and by Birdie customers;
• Document your design choices; produce enough documentation so that someone else can maintain and improve your codebase;
• Drive improvement across Birdie, collaborating where appropriate to continuously improve the products and services we offer;
• Automate everything!

Requirements

modeling🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you

• Have at least 3 years of experience working in a data engineering role supporting customer-facing processes and infrastructure.
• Have experience with Kafka and Kafka Connect systems
• Have experience with data lakes and/or data meshes (BONUS if the data lake is SnowFlake)
• Have experience modelling data with SQL, for example, sessionising events, creating slowly changing dimensions
• Experience developing integrations with third-party APIs
• Have the drive to automate away problems and provide quality of life tooling;
• Are you someone who gets things done and is willing to step up, roll up your sleeves and take responsibility; Able to work efficiently with little supervision and with a high degree of self-motivation and accountability;
• Are a pragmatic problem-solver who is curious, loves learning new things and can mentor or coach others;
• Get excited and are interested in latest technologies and keep yourself informed;
• Are you someone who can manage complexity and ambiguity but focus on the right outcome and back up your decision clearly;
• Are someone who is inspired by, and seeks to embody our values;
• Are someone who wants to learn, wants to improve and wants to grow in your chosen career;
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills in English;
• (BONUS) Have experience working on SaaS product covering multiple end applications (mobile & web)
• (BONUS) Able to forge strong bonds with key stakeholders and speak at different levels of technical understanding
• If you read up to here, please mention it in your email, we love rigorous people at Birdie ;)

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

Benefits

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

✨ Compensation

The salary for this position is £65k. We also provide discretionary share options. We do adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Flexible

With Covid-19, we have decided to be a fully distributed team with Birdie's working across the globe. We organise quarterly in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the office, you're most welcome of course!

🌱 L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have a personal development budget to put towards books (e.g., free audible subscription), courses, training and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts

🌴 Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays) + Christmas eve day off

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance

Private health insurance with Vitality that covers many physical and mental health costs

☀️ Gym and well-being memberships

Gym membership and numerous other wellbeing perks and discounts via Vitality

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay off over the next 12-36 months

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

👵🏻 Pension employer contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your base salary to your pension and employees sacrifice 5%.

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual trips (like our epic ski trips)

🤗 Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.

Typical Interview Stages

• Typical Interview Stages

• a 30 min video call to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• a 30 min video call with one of our senior tech figures in the team
• a 90 min Project day video call with 2 of our Data Engineers.
• a 45 min video call to discuss your motivation
• a 45 min video call with the CEO or a co-founder

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all Birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.