Funding 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.
Prospectus:
Would
you describe yourself as a data fanatic? Do you have a passion for
integrating and analysing data sources to help your company make better
decisions faster? If you answer yes to these questions then we're
looking for you to join our team! Funding Circle’s Data Team are looking for a Data Engineer to help build and transform FC UK’s data warehouse.
The right person will be:
- An enthusiast - you understand what a good data warehouse can bring to a business and what it takes to build one.
- A communicator - you can communicate effectively to engineers as well as business users.
- A builder - you have experience of warehouse development, from data modelling to building out comprehensive ETL.
- A pathfinder - you are interested in solving problems today while helping shape work months ahead.
- A thinker - you have an inquisitive mindset and the desire and ability to turn business requirements into working software.
- An owner - you’ll take pride and ownership in the quality of the work you produce.
The
UK data team are part of a global team tasked with building and
maintaining the data platform that supports analytics and reporting for
FC. Our stakeholders are from every area of the business - from teams
tracking performance, through BI specialists to data scientists. We
have identified data as one of our key strategic assets and so this role
is one in which you can make a visible impact on the business.
The ideal candidate will have:
- 3+ years in a development and data engineering role preferably in tech, consulting, or finance.*
- Extensive hands-on experience with SQL (we use Postgres).
- Strong programming skills (Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Clojure; we love them all).
- Familiarity with AWS stack including EMR, Lambda & EC2.
- Proficiency using large data sets and relational and dimensional modeling.
- Expertise in a Unix environment.
- 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.
Bonus points for:
- Engineering/CS or Finance degree.
- Experience in virtualized environments (Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Docker, etc.).
- Skills working with structured and unstructured data sets.
- Microservice architecture development experience.
*The
stated experience level is a guide and does not preclude applications
from candidates with more or less experience, provided the requisite
skills can be demonstrated.
