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Data Engineer

Swap
City of London, England
6 months ago
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Swap is a leading software provider dedicated to empowering e-commerce brands with innovative, data-driven solutions. Our cutting-edge platform helps online retailers optimise their operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive growth. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where creativity and innovation thrive.


About the Role

We're looking for a passionate and detail oriented Data Engineer to join our platform team as we rapidly scale our stack for a new data-driven era at Swap. In this role, you’ll be driving change through building first-class data systems for the whole business whilst shaping the platform vision and driving internal best practices.


This role requires a knowledgeable, hands-on and enthusiastic team player who is excited at the prospect of accelerating and scaling a greenfield project. If you're excited by the idea of working in a fast-paced, collaborative team where you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!


Responsibilities

  • API Strategy & Development: Own the strategy and implementation of our API layer, enabling our products to access the data they need.
  • Platform Technical Vision: Input and influence the technical direction of the data platform at Swap, ensuring we're always prepared for future business opportunities.
  • Data Pipeline Development: Own our replication pipelines to ensure we have first-class observability, latency and alerting capabilities.
  • Data Quality & Governance: Driving best practices to ensure our data is trustworthy and reliable as we scale together to deliver best in class products for Swap.

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years experience working as a data engineer in customer-facing product environments.
  • Demonstrable Python experience working with data pipeline, orchestration, and api framework technologies. Ideally, but not limited to, Data Load Tool (dlt) and FastAPI.
  • Several years of experience working in a Google Cloud Platform environment, specifically BigQuery, Cloud Run and Cloud Storage.
  • Experience deploying different CI/CD technologies, such as GitHub Actions, to achieve scalable and seamless multi-developer projects.
  • Understanding of data warehouse architectures and best practices using data build tool (dbt).
  • Ability to clearly communicate and influence the technical vision and direction of the platform to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience working with Shopify or e-commerce datasets.
  • Stock options in a high-growth startup
  • Private Health insurance
  • Pension


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