Data Engineer

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About Us  

YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.   We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future. 

The Role:  

We’re looking for aData Platform Engineerto join our growingData Engineering & Platform team. This role sits at the intersection ofinfrastructure, DevOps, and modern data tooling— with a focus on enabling fast, secure, and scalable analytics. To help us build and scale a best-in-class data platform to support everything from dashboards and experimentation to ML and compliance

Requirements

  • Build and manage infrastructure for our data platform (AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow)
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for dbt and other data workflows
  • Automate data platform operations with Python and infrastructure-as-code tools (Pulumi/Terraform)
  • Collaborate with analytics, ML, product, and engineering teams to scale data solutions
  • Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance through testing and monitoring
  • Work with cost observability tools to ensure efficient platform usage

Essential:

  • Proven experience working with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.)
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation and analytics
  • Experience with CI/CD, preferably in dbt and/or data platforms
  • Hands-on streaming data architecture experience
  • Good understanding of orchestration tools like Airflow
  • Strong communicator, with experience working cross-functionally

 

Desirable Skills: 

  • Cloud:AWS (S3, Lambda, MWAA), Azure DevOps
  • Platform:Snowflake, dbt Cloud, Fivetran
  • Orchestration:Airflow (MWAA), dbt jobs
  • Languages:Python, SQL
  • IaC:Pulumi, Terraform
  • Monitoring:DataDog

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 + 10% annual bonus

Benefits

Why work at YouLend?  

  • Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.  
  • Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.  

 

 

We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:  

  • Stock Options  
  • Private Medical insurance via Vitality   
  • EAP with Health Assured  
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave  
  • Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London  
  • Free Gym in office building in Holborn  
  • Subsidised Lunch via Feedr  
  • Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office  
  • Monthly in office Masseuse  
  • Team and Company Socials  
  • Football Power League / Squash Club  

  

At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.  

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