Senior Data Engineer

🐦 About Birdie

Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year, making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.

Birdie was founded in 2017, a B-Corp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M, we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures, fuelling our mission to transform care.

Recognised for its innovation and impact, we have received numerous accolades, including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloitte's EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastest-growing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore, Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.

Check out our principles and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we will continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions.

🚀 Your mission at Birdie

We strongly believe that data holds the key to unlock innovation in social care. It is the foundation of how we learn as a company as well as how we enable our customers to improve their services. Our applications and services generate a wealth of rich data - it is essential that we’re able to process, analyse & deliver as much of it as possible to improve the lives of older adults.

You’ll be working with our data engineering team and closely with the infrastructure and product squads to make sure that the right data is available at the right time to solve real customer problems.

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute

Your objectives when joining will be to:

• Maintain our data architecture using the right technologies to solve today’s problems as well as the problems Birdie will face in future

• Build data infrastructure, tools & documentation - working with squads to:

  • Reduce time taken to source, process, model and publish datasets.

  • Improve the accuracy, reliability & re-usability of datasets.

• Enabling our partners to make data driven decisions by:

  • Maintaining our current BI tooling

  • Investigating new approaches to drive adoption and impact alongside the PM

• Enabling Birdie colleagues to make data driven decisions by:

  • Publishing key data points in the tools they use everyday

  • Collating data into our customer data platform to enable valuable insights

🤩 We'd love to hear from you if you have:

Experience

• At least 5 years experience working in a data engineering role supporting customer facing processes and infrastructure.

• Passionate about enabling others with tools and documentation - careful not to become a single point of failure.

• Technical leader - highly curious about new technology with clear ability to rapidly learn and understand pros and cons of new tools.

• Great communicator - capable of explaining technical problems & solutions in clear, concise terms understandable to non-technical audiences.

• Quality focused - evangelises the importance of data quality, coaches teams to use best practices improving data reliability and accuracy.

• Not afraid to challenge - will always speak up on behalf of the right solution, even if it’s against group consensus.

• Outcome focused - prioritises delivering value above having the ‘perfect’ solution.

• Cares deeply about data privacy and security.

Here’s the Data stack in place today:

• Extraction/Load: FiveTran, Meltano

• Storage: AWS S3 / AWS RDS / Snowflake

• Data streaming: Kafka Connect (via Strimzi)

• Transformation: DBT

• Product Analytics & event collection: Amplitude & Segment

• Commercial Tooling: Hubspot, Planhat, Intercom

• Company & Customer Analytics: Looker

🙌 What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive:

✨ Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £83k - £90k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

🏝 Location

This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.

Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.

🌱 L&D budget

Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

🏡 Work From Home budget

Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you’ll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.

🌴 Paid time off

We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra “Birthday” day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.

🫶🏻 Birdie giving days

Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you’re passionate about) each year.

🌍 Sabbaticals

We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.

👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts

Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

👼🏽 Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

🐣 Fertility Leave

Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

👵🏻 Employer pension contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies)

⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

It's essential to us that you’re able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.