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Data Engineer (Data Migrations)Remote | Full-time | UK Timezones (UTC-4 to UTC+3 preferred)

About Carebit

Carebit is a design-led, remote-first healthtech company helping hundreds of private doctors across the UK run their practices more efficiently—and delivering a better experience for their patients. We’re profitable, bootstrapped, and committed to staying remote.

We doubled revenue in 2024 and continue to grow at a rapid pace. With a growing queue of new practices ready to migrate, we’re hiring a Data Engineer to own and deliver migrations from start to finish, and improve our robust Ruby data tooling.

The role

You’ll guide new customers through migrating from their old practice management systems into Carebit. This involves cleaning, validating, and converting data (patients, bookings, invoices, etc.)—usually from structured exports or spreadsheets. You’ll communicate with customers throughout the process, helping them feel confident and supported. All key processes are well documented in our internal playbook.

A typical migration includes:

Booking a migration date and answering any customer queries
Receiving data via FTP (typically ~5GB)
Cleaning, validating, and converting data using Ruby scripts (CSV → JSON)
Writing new Ruby scripts where needed (for less structured sources)
Uploading converted data to AWS S3 and scheduling import jobs
Iterating on our tooling and processes to improve speed, reliability, and test coverage

You’ll work alongside experienced Ruby and DevOps engineers, including the original author of our migration tooling.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Data Engineer or backend developer with strong data transformation and scripting skills
Proficiency in Ruby (or ability to pick it up quickly); experience processing CSV and outputting JSON
Comfortable with Linux, bash scripting, Ansible provisioning, and remote Ubuntu environments
Familiar with both SQL and NoSQL structures (e.g. we import from MongoDB, though don’t use it internally)
Experience validating, transforming, and cleaning large datasets
Confident working with CSV/JSON, Postgres (for intermediate processing), and AWS S3
Experience building automated test suites (we use RSpec)
Excellent spoken/written English, customer-focused mindset, and calm communication style
Able to own and improve a technical function independently
Located within UTC-4 to UTC+3 (UTC+1 preferred for alignment)

Bonus points for

Formal ETL experience
AWS and Terraform knowledge
An automation-first mindset

Benefits

Competitive salary
25 days holiday/year
Async work culture with minimal meetings
Laptop, chair, and setup budget

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