Contractor Python Engineer (Data Platform Team)

About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 500 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1

2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the Role

As a Contract Data Platform Engineer, you’ll help shape and scale our data infrastructure, making analytics faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient. You’ll work with AWS, Snowflake, Python, and Terraform, building tooling, onboarding new data sources, and optimising pipelines.

You'll collaborate closely with teams across the business, ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, and easy to use.

Team mission

We want to maximise business value by optimising the analytics pipeline, enhancing Lendable's competitive advantage through data utilisation. 

This means our Data Platform is designed to streamline the efficiency of analysis in extracting insights from data, while also ensuring cost control, compliance, and security.

What will you be doing?

This is a non-exhaustive list of the activities you would engage with in the role:

• Develop new tooling for product teams to boost their efficiency

• Work with the wider team in maintaining, evolving and scaling data infrastructure solutions on AWS and Snowflake.

• Onboard new ingestion sources and maintain the smooth running and monitoring.

• Ensure platform robustness through automated testing and monitoring of data pipelines aligned to the expected scaling of Lendable.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Optimise existing CI/CD pipelines for faster cycle times and increased reliability.

• Implement security best practices for data management and infrastructure on cloud platforms.

• Design and deploy infrastructure as code to manage cloud resources efficiently.

• Assist in the troubleshooting and resolution of production issues to minimise downtime and improve user satisfaction.

Skills we are looking for

Must have

• Proficiency in software development, particularly in Python or a similar language.

• Solid engineering practices, including automated testing, deployment systems, and configuration as code.

• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or equivalent (preference for AWS - S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, Athena, Glue, Kinesis).

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.

• Knowledge of columnar databases, such as Snowflake.

• Experience in developing and optimising CI/CD pipelines, with a preference for GitHub Actions.

• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with business analysts and stakeholders, ensuring technical solutions meet business needs.

• Experience with data ingestion tools, like Fivetran.

• Experience with Data Orchestrator tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc.)

Nice to have

• Expertise in data transformation, particularly with DBT.

• Exposure to data visualisation tools.

• Experience with  Data Observability tools (Montecarlo, Great Expectations, etc.)

• Experience with  Data Catalog tools (Amundsen, OpenMetadata, etc.)

• Exposure to deploying applications with Kubernetes.

Life at Lendable

• The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.

• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange ideas.

• Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.

• We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

• We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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