Data Engineer | Fintech Scale-Up | Fully Remote (UK Only)
£70,000 (some flexibility) + Equity + Private Medical | Series C | High-Growth Payments & Insurance Platform
Are you ready to join abrand-newData Engineering team at a fintech scale-up that grew nearly7xin the last year? Want to ownmeaningful equityin a private equity-backed company preparing for its next funding round-with a potential exit or secondary event on the horizon in a few years.
This is your chance to get in early, build something impactful, and share in the upside.
🚀 The Opportunity
This scale-up is redefining how payments and insurance intersect. Backed by major P.E. players and fresh off an explosive growth phase, they're investing heavily in data, insights, and predictive technologies. You'll be among the first data engineers in agreenfieldenvironment-helping to lay the technical foundations of their next-generation data stack.
🔧 What You'll Be Doing
You'll be a hands-on contributor helping shape how data is captured, moved, transformed, and surfaced across the business. Core responsibilities include:
Designing, building, and maintainingscalable data pipelines(batch & real-time/streaming).
Developing and optimising robustELT processesto ingest, enrich, and publish trusted data.
Building withprivacy, security, and compliancefront of mind-especially for sensitive financial and user data.
Integrating monitoring andobservabilityto detect and resolve data quality/performance issues.
Architecting and delivering performant data models forlakehousestorage and analytics.
📈 Key Focus Areas for 2025
Datamarks- Establishing a common language across metrics and datasets
Streaming events- Real-time ingestion and transformation pipelines
AI-driven predictive insights- Powering smarter decisions across the business
✅ What You'll Need
We're not ticking boxes-we're looking for curious, capable engineers who can think at scale. That said, experience with some of the following would be ideal:
Python, Spark, Databricks
Cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Event-driven architecture or real-time systems
CI/CD and DataOps practices
Solid grasp of data privacy/security frameworks
🎁 What's In It For You
Up to£70,000base (flexible depending on experience)
Equitywith strong exit potential
Private medical insurance
Fullyremote(UK-based team)
Early influence in a brand-new data org
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge fintech problems
🚪 Interested?
If you're excited by the idea of owning your craft, shaping systems from scratch, and building for real impact-this is your opportunity.
Apply now or reach out to learn more about the roadmap and vision.
