Senior Software Engineer Data Team

Description

At Funding Circle there’s a mission that drives everything we do. Around the world, we want to help small businesses get the finance they need to thrive, creating thousands of jobs as they drive the economy forward.

We have teams in London, Denver, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Berlin, we’re fusing finance and tech to build new opportunities for those who want to achieve more.

Are you made to do more? Join us!

The driving force behind the world’s leading platform for small business lending is our engineering team. We are a diverse group from more than 25 different countries and cultures who bring together a wide range of backgrounds and experience (from music to aerospace engineering).

We are focused entirely on using technology to provide the best experience for our borrowers and investors. We are doing this by building elegant, sustainable, and scalable solutions that can be applied globally. We work in small agile teams practicing continuous integration, TDD and are no strangers to pairing as we believe that working together is smarter than sitting in silos.

The data engineering team are responsible for building a global data platform that allows us to scale rapidly. They build out our data pipelines and they make sure data is organized so that everyone can discover, query and consume valuable data in a quick and easy way.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Data you will…

• Participate and have a say in the architecture and development of a truly global data platform.
• Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Spark and Athena
• Evolve our data models and architecture to support our business’ demanding self service needs.
• Adhere to an agile way of working and be an advocate of testing, continuous integration, and data quality monitoring.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams such as risk, analytics, product and more to develop data driven products and tools.
• Take pride and ownership in your work and that of the team

We are looking for these skills…

• Demonstrable experience in solving problems in the data engineering space.
• You are expert in Python, Clojure, Scala or another functional programming language, and, of course, you can write SQL in your sleep.
• You’ve worked in cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or perhaps Azure.
• Experience working with large-scale data repositories like data lakes or dimensional data warehouses.
• Major bonus points if you have experience with big data solutions like Spark, Presto/Athena, Redshift, EMR
• Bonus points for having skills dealing with streaming data using tools like Kafka or Spark Streaming.
• A self-starter attitude with an enthusiasm to work in a fast growing fintech company.

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.