Data Engineer (11-months FTC Maternity Cover)

Description

Save My Exams is a rapidly growing Ed Tech business on the lookout for a Data Engineer to cover maternity leave.

We are an exciting, customer-obsessed, remote-first startup that is improving the lives of millions of students every year.

Reaching more than 4 million users every month, all while being bootstrapped and profitable, we’re looking for a

Data Engineer to join our team and help grow and engage our community across social media channels.

We are passionate about solving challenging and meaningful problems and looking for people who care about making a real difference in the lives of students and teachers.

So, if you’re interested in joining a rapidly scaling, product-led, customer-obsessed business, and having the chance to disrupt a $7tn+ market by improving the lives of millions of students every year, then read on.

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Requirements

This is an 11-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave.

You'll be our only Data Engineer, taking full ownership of the data platform for the whole business.

To love this role, here's the type of person you are

• You enjoy owning a data platform end-to-end, this includes ingestion, modelling, orchestration and activation and take as much pride in keeping it reliable as in extending it.
• You're comfortable being the sole data engineer in a company: setting the standards, making the technical decisions, and acting as the go-to person for anything data engineering.
• You bring software engineering discipline to data work.

Best practices such as version control, code review, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code are your defaults, not extras.

• You're pragmatic, balancing engineering rigour with business reality and choosing the simplest solution that solves the problem well.
• You enjoy working directly with non-technical stakeholders, translating their questions and requirements into well-modelled, trustworthy data.
• You'd enjoy supporting a product that directly helps millions of students across the world, and you like the ambiguity, pace and opportunity that comes with a relatively small company.

Your Responsibilities

Over the next 11 months, you'll

• Own and run our data platform end-to-end: ingesting data from third-party APIs, internal databases and event streams into Snowflake, transforming it with dbt, and orchestrating everything on AWS.

Keep the platform secure, reliable, cost-efficient and maintainable.

Including monitoring pipelines, responding to alerts, resolving data quality issues and optimising warehouse performance and spend.

• Work with our Insights & Analytics team to define data models and provide clean, transformed data that's ready for analysis.
• Deliver data to stakeholders across the business, including reverse ETL syncs into third party tools.
• Maintain the infrastructure behind our internal data products, including our semantic layer and AI-powered self-serve analytics tooling.
• Be the decision-maker for data engineering: prioritising a backlog, making architecture and build-vs-buy calls, and evaluating vendors and tooling.