Senior Data Engineer

About Unmind

Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to live more fulfilling and balanced lives by changing the way organisations around the world think about mental health. We believe that everyone has the right to a healthy mind – because we all have mental health, all of the time – and we’re striving to create a world where mental health is universally understood, nurtured, and celebrated.

Having closed our Series B funding in April 2021, and looking ahead to our Series C, we're excited about the next stage of growth which will enable us to deliver on our mission to improve the mental wellbeing of ten million people in organisations around the world. We’re a fast-growing team with over 180 Unminders across London, Sydney and New York and would love for you to join us as our new Senior Data Engineer.

Uniting Behind Uniqueness

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply for a role at Unmind.

If there are any adjustments that would help improve your experience with Unmind, please do let us know when you apply.

We also believe our interview process should be inclusive and transparent. Find out what to expect and more about our commitment to diversity on our candidate FAQs page here. As always, if there is anything missing, or you've identified a way we can improve, just let us know!

The Role – Senior Data Engineer

The core mission of the data team is to provide meaningful recommendations and actionable insights from our users’ and client data as we strive to build the best version of Unmind.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will contribute to this mission by owning and building out our data platform architecture to enable data analysts and data scientists - as well as key stakeholders to access a variety of business and platform insights for critical decision making.

This is an exciting opportunity to create impact from the ground up and build out the data engineering function at Unmind. You will sit within our data team and collaborate closely with our Software and Systems Engineers.

Our Tech Stack

AWS, Terraform, Postgres, MySQL, Segment, dbt, Python, Tableau

Things you'll do in this role

We move quickly, which means that the focus and responsibilities of any position can be quite dynamic – but here’s how we initially see your skills and passion coming to life at Unmind.

Build - You will be responsible for creating the technology and data platform architecture that moves and translates the data we use to inform our strategic decisions and provide value to our users and clients.

Own - You will own the data engineering roadmap, I.e. the department's data integration work as well as the design, build, and implementation of our data platform architecture

Drive - As our main data engineer, you will drive best practices, technical discussions and decision - making to ensure that Unmind uses the most appropriate approach, technologies and tools for the job.

Collaborate - You will work very cross-functionally, partner with our data analysts, data scientists, systems engineers, software engineers, and our key stakeholders to identify performance enhancements and opportunities for leveraging the organisation’s data assets to create impact in a fast-moving environment.

Skills and Experience

We firmly believe that no-one is the finished article and that there should be learning in every role you do. However, the following experience and skills are important for the role

• Skills in the following programming languages or frameworks: SQL, Python, Postgres, Git, and terraform or other IaC tooling
• Experience designing, building, and implementing data platform architecture
• Strong data wrangling skills (e.g. transformations, merging, cleaning, enriching, etc.)
• Experience with integrating third-party data sources using tools like Stitch, Fivetran, etc.
• Experience with monitoring data quality, job execution times, job success/failure and remediation as well as query performance
• Ability to understand & translate business requirements into data transformation steps

Benefits

At Unmind we believe in having a whole person approach and we hope that our benefits enhance the lives of Unminders, helping them be happy, healthy and fulfilled. You can see the full details of our benefits on the careers page, but they include:

Everyday Life

To support you throughout everyday life at Unmind

• Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Pension | 401(k) | Superannuation
• Global EAP
• Life Insurance
• Unmind Equity scheme

Life Experiences

Taking time to celebrate and experience the important moments in life.

• 25 days annual leave plus your birthday day off
• Flexible working, including flexible use of Public Holidays
• Summer Fridays
• Celebration days
• £1,000 annual learning budget with 2 days learning leave
• Gender-neutral parental leave policy and Parental coaching

Healthy Lifestyle

Ensuring Unminders have access to tools that enrich both their bodies and their minds.

• Monthly ClassPass Subscription
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Regular company socials and wellbeing activities
• Friend and family access to the Unmind platform
• Office perks (free on-site gym, rooftop seating, community events)
• Dog-friendly workplace