Staff Software Engineer - Data - #191102

Department: Engineering

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.