Our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.
It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!
We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money and that’s why good things happen when you meerkat.
We’d love you to be part of our journey.
As a Data Engineer you will work within an ambitious community of data professionals who are focused on delivering great data-driven products for our customers that make their lives easier and better.
You will be expert in all data engineering practices and employ the simplest and most effective techniques and tools to produce high-quality code at pace.
You will actively contribute to a community of data engineers working across the CTM business.
You’ll make a real impact by delivering customer value early and often and take an active role in improving your team’s Agile Development practices and effectiveness.
Everyone is welcome.
We have a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic, whole selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.
This means we’re excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences and ideas. We don’t expect you to tick all the boxes, but would love to hear what makes you great for this role.
Some of the great things you’ll be doing:
• Effective Team Member: Engage actively with team activities and agile ceremonies to drive continuous improvement. Identify potential problems or risks and take ownership of the solution. Constantly strive to improve your knowledge and skills through training and personal development.
• Engineering Excellence: Understand and effectively implement all core engineering practices including TDD and BDD, CI/CD and pair programming. Ensure that we embed higher quality, better security and privacy practices within products.
• Innovation: Be ready to adopt and embed innovative approaches and proactively contribute ideas for improvement. Contribute actively to communities of practice to foster knowledge sharing and upskilling.
• Impact: Understand the outcomes we want to achieve and proactively suggest the best route to get to value early whilst preserving quality and reducing risk.
• Build, Run, Own: Demonstrate a “DevOps mindset” and ensure that everything we build is secure, scalable, responsive and sustainable. Ensure that documentation and runbooks are maintained at the same standard as code.
What we’d like to see from you:
• Scrum and Kanban Agile Delivery Practices
• Agile collaboration and planning tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams.
• Effective communication within teams.
• Knowledge of Data Engineering practices and technologies, especially Kafka, Spark and AWS in Java or Python.
• BDD (Behaviour Driven Development), TDD (Test Driven Development) and CI/CD engineering practices.
• Knowledge of GoCD, Jenkins and Github is preferred
• Strong SQL skills and knowledge of traditional and modern cloud databases is advantageous
• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes is ideal
Our people bring our purpose to life.
We champion a culture of innovation and challenge. We have over 300 tech experts across our teams all using the latest tools and technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Java, Scala, Python, .Net Core, Node.js and MongoDB.
There’s something for everyone.
We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.
And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you. From a generous holiday allowance and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid development, wellbeing and CSR days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!
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