Lead Data Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

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carwow

carwow brings you the best offers from thousands of trusted dealers so you can buy or sell your car in just a few clicks. Buy. Sell. WOW.

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carwow is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Platform engineering team on a full-time basis in either a fully remote or hybrid capacity.

About carwow

Buying or selling a car shouldn’t be difficult! That’s why here at carwow we are on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. We're not all petrolheads - just a highly driven (excuse the pun) scale-up with over 300 carwowers in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal .

Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million users and a Trustpilot rating of 4.7. We are also very proud to be backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors.

About the role

This year we've been investing heavily in the continued growth of our Platform engineering tribe and part of this growth has seen Data Engineering becoming its own entity.

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join the team and play a pivotal role building the foundational tools and data products that carwow teams can use to deliver great products and customer experiences. You'd work closely with senior stakeholders across various product squads and analytics teams and use your experience in suggesting improvements to our data systems that allow us to make well informed decisions.

You will play a key role in shaping the technical delivery of the data engineering team by helping set up team OKRs that align with business objectives alongside product managers, scoping and helping the team break down strategic objectives into tactical work, ensuring technology architecture and principles alignment within the team, and coaching the team alongside engineering managers to deliver great customer experiences.

Core

  • Play the technical lead role within the data engineering squad, working together with the Principal Engineer, Product Manager and Engineering Manager.
  • Help shape the future of Data Engineering at carwow by providing knowledge and expertise in best practises and implementation.
  • Work closely with the Analytics & Data Science team to help them achieve their best work.
  • Lead the data engineering team in scoping how new features can be built, and how stakeholder needs can be met while making pragmatic technical trade-offs
  • Write maintainable and performant code, with tests and documentation
  • Collaborate with your team on getting things done - review code and help out with constructive feedback
  • Monitor and support your team's software in production.

Strategic

  • Define a roadmap of initiatives to both improve our current infrastructure, and support other teams in creating new data products.
  • Contribute your expert opinion on the scope and feasibility of the initiatives your team considers
  • Help shape the technical strategy for our approach to building data products
  • Be a good strategic delegator, understanding when to delegate tasks to the team and when to take ownership.

Tactical

  • Contribute to a diverse engineering culture based on customer-centricity, high-quality code, data-driven decisions, technical innovation and business impact
  • Develop and test product improvements that help stakeholders
  • Collaborate with other technical leads and engineers inside and outside of the team, helping them to do their best work and deliver projects according to our values and brand
  • Understand the important technical differentiating factors of our data product, and leverage those in our architecture.

Requirements

Your attributes

You may be just the right person if others have described you as…

  • Technically experienced
  • Collaborative
  • Impactful

Your previous experience

  • Have worked as a senior data engineer or technical lead
    • Must have: SQL, Python, data infrastructure, SQL ETL/ELT knowledge, experience with DAGs to manage script dependencies with tools like Airflow
    • Nice to have: Snowflake, Airflow, Terraform, Ruby, data visualisation tool (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Power BI), Amplitude, DevOps, Redshift, AWS
  • Enjoy leading distributed teams and working cross-functionally with product managers, stakeholders, and other developers
  • Are keen to learn continuously, share your knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others.

How we will measure your success

We will know you're doing a great job when we see:

  • You’re delivering work that has measurable impact and value to stakeholders – early and often
  • You lead your team to success, actively scoping work and driving projects forward
  • You’re fully engaged in the product development life cycle, helping to shape your team’s roadmap
  • You’re raising the bar for technical quality and sharing your expertise
  • You're comfortable mentoring engineers to help them progress to the next level in their careers.

Please note: We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we've listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you feel you're close to the brief but not an exact match.

Benefits

  • A competitive salary with equity in the company (share options)
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve or an alternative religious holiday of your choice*
  • Life insurance (4 x basic salary)
  • Private pension scheme (carwow will match contributions up to 5%)
  • Private medical health insurance with Vitality
  • Free access to Sanctus mental-health coaching sessions
  • The latest core Tech (Macbook Air or PC Surface Pro)
  • Home Office budget of £500/€550
  • Salary sacrifice benefits (i.e. cycle to work), Travel Loan
  • Subsidised gym membership (50% off David Lloyds, Virgin Active and Nuffield Health)

*if you are not religious, this day will remain as Christmas Eve in conjunction with usual Christmas Bank Holidays


CSR

We are leading the change to Electric vehicles and are conscious of the impact our industry can have on the environment. We’ve already planted over 45,000 trees to date as a thank you to those who leave us a review and are extremely excited about our new partnership with ‘One Tree Planted’, which we hope will increase the number to around 60,000 trees a year.

Tags: Airflow Amplitude Architecture AWS DevOps ELT Engineering ETL Looker OKR Power BI Python Redshift Ruby Snowflake SQL Tableau Terraform

Perks/benefits: Competitive pay Equity Fitness / gym Gear Health care Home office stipend Medical leave Startup environment Travel

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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