Staff Software Engineer - Data

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Cardiff

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Cardiff office

Confused.com

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands that include: Uswitch, Tempcover, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages.

We are at the cutting edge of the FinTech industry, so we’re always looking for extraordinary talent. If you love what you do, get in touch today!

About the role

Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross-functional product teams.

We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale, we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.

What you will be responsible for

Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology
Collaboration: work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions, and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance and reliability
Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch-ups, working groups, and 'All Hands'
Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge, and expertise in a continuous learning environment
Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions
Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier.

What we look for in you

Understand, assess and effectively apply modern data architectures (dimensional model, data mesh, data lake)
Experience in applying and using data observability methods effectively
Experience in modern software development practices (agile, CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure as code, observability
Experience applying DORA metrics to Data Products
Experience with Domain driven design, Event driven architecture and Contract driven development
Experience and understanding of designing data products and versioning
Proven technical leadership and managing relationships multiple cross-departmental stakeholders
Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining robust data pipelines and transformation processes
Ability to understand detailed technical requirements and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

High level of proficiency developing applications using most of the following:

Strong knowledge of SQL and Python programming
Extensive experience working within a cloud environment
Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, BigQuery)
Experience with alternative data technologies (e.g. duckdb, polars, daft)
Familiarity with eventing technologies (Event Hubs, Kafka etc…)
Deep understanding of file formats and their behaviour such as parquet, delta, and iceberg.

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

Our commitment to you

We believe that we can be the change we wish to see in the world. We hold ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and community members. We embrace our differences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that reflects the world we live in.

What we offer

We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

Employer-matching pension up to 7.5%
Hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
Excellent maternity, paternity, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
Up to 30 days per year “working from anywhere”
A healthy learning and training budget
Electric vehicles scheme
Health insurance
Access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.

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