Data Engineer

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Posting Date: 22/01/2018End Date: 19/02/2018Salary: £80,000 - £85,000Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. Our mission is to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant,sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.You will design, implement, test and maintain scalable data pipelines from a variety of web and marketing analytic providers. You will work alongside your team to ensure quality, performance and reliability goals are met while contributing to our overall back-end infrastructure. This role is mission critical. You will have huge influence on the entire data strategy for the organization! We’re a tight-knit, highly visible part of the organization.  

Data is central to our mission of making a better financial world - come join us and drive the most strategic area of focus for the company!  What we are looking for in you:

• Be a builder: you’ll be developing scalable data warehousing solutions utilizing web & social data to help drive better decision making across the company.
• Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to partner with your business counterparts to forge deep bonds, understand their data needs and share ownership of their outcomes.
• Be a data evangelist: lead by example facilitating high quality data-driven decision-making throughout the company by helping other teams cultivate deeper knowledge and improve scoring models.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to teach stakeholders how to answer their own questions with data tools you build.<b<bOur ideal candidate has:

• 4+ years in a development and data engineering role preferably building data pipelines and dimensional models in high volume tech, consulting, or finance space.
• Online marketing experience - tracking and event data collection and analysis
• deep understanding of the current Web Analytics landscape including FB, GA, Tag Manager, AdWords, Trueffect, Segment, advertising, media, tagging, mobile and social.
• extensive hands-on experience with SQL (we use Postgres).
• strong programming skills (Clojure, Python, Java, Ruby, R, Scala, Javascript; we love them all) but with emphasis on the first three.
• familiarity with AWS and Apache stacks including Lambda, EC2, EMR, Athena etc.
• Unix development skills including shell scripting and automation.
• experience with messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka/RabbitMQ/JMS/etc.).
• exposure to big data/NoSQL systems and the issues that arise from working with large data sets.
• a self-starter attitude with an enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, start-up environment.
• experience in financial or other strongly regulated industry where oversight and attention to detail is paramount.
• involvement in areas of marketing, list management, targeting, A/B testing, funnel tracking & cohort analysis.

• Experience in virtualized environments (Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Docker, etc.).
• Front end Javascript skills combined with backend Java/Clojure/Python depth.
• Skills working with structured and unstructured data sets.
• Microservice architecture development experience.
• R, SAS, ML algorithm creation & model building.Engineering/CS or Finance degree.