carwow is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Platform engineering team on a full-time basis in either a fully remote or hybrid capacity within the UK, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. Our offices are based in London, Munich, Madrid and Porto.

About carwow

We’re on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million active users and an ‘excellent’ Trustpilot rating of 4.7.

carwow is backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors, with $55 million Series D funding secured in December 2021. Over 400 carwowers from 25 nationalities work with us in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal. One of our goals for 2023 is to become a Top 10 European Start-Up to work for.

About the role

We are investing heavily in the continued growth of our Platform engineering tribe and part of this growth has seen Data Engineering becoming its own entity.

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join us and play a pivotal role in building the foundational tools and data products that carwow teams can use to deliver great products and customer experiences. You will work closely with Senior Stakeholders across various Product squads and Analytics teams and suggest improvements to our data systems in order to drive informed outcomes.

You will play a key role in shaping the technical delivery of the Data Engineering team by building OKRs that align with business objectives alongside Product Managers, scoping and helping the team to break down strategic objectives into tactical work, ensuring technology architecture and theories alignment within the team, and coaching the team alongside Engineering Managers to deliver great customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• You will be the Technical Lead within the Data Engineering squad, working simultaneously with the Principal Engineer, Product Manager and Engineering Manager whilst partnering closely with our Analytics & Data Science team to help enhance their productivity
• You will help to shape the technical strategy for our approach to building data products and the future of Data Engineering at carwow by providing knowledge and expertise in optimum practices and implementation. This includes developing and testing product improvements
• You will lead the Data Engineering team in scoping how new features can be built and how Stakeholder needs can be met while making pragmatic technical trade-offs
• Develop and enhance our data architecture and pipelines to enable us to deliver versus our business goals
• Collaborate with, and mentor your team by reviewing code, monitoring and guiding your team's software in production. Collaborate with other Stakeholders helping them to do their finest work and deliver projects according to our values and brand
• Define a roadmap of initiatives to both improve our current infrastructure and assist other teams in creating new data products.
• Contribute to a diverse Engineering culture based on customer-centricity, high-quality code, data-driven outcomes, technical innovation and business impact
• Identify the important technical differentiating factors of our data product, and leverage those in our architecture

• Previous experience as a Senior Data Engineer or Technical Lead
• Knowledge of data modelling and schema design with a focus on efficiency, accuracy and scalability
• Experience with SQL, Python, data infrastructure, SQL ETL/ELT knowledge, experience with DAGs to oversee script dependencies with tools like Airflow, Snowflake, Terraform
• It's preferred but not essential if you have experience in Ruby, data visualisation tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Power BI), Amplitude, DevOps, Circle CI/CD, AWS
• Experience guiding and mentoring distributed teams of Engineers to success, working cross-functionally with Product Managers, Stakeholders, and other Developers
• A desire to learn continuously, share your knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others. You raise the bar for technical quality and sharing your expertise
• Experience delivering work that has measurable impact and value to stakeholders – early and often. You actively scope work and drive projects forward
• You are fully engaged in the product development life cycle, helping to shape your team’s roadmap

Please note: We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we've listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you believe you're close to the brief but not an exact match.

🗺️ 🕔 Engineering team works remotely across four countries but has access to physical offices in each location

💶 Competitive salary

🏢 Equity in the company (share options)

🏥 Vitality Private Healthcare

🏖️ 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve or an alternative (religious) holiday of your choice

💻 Tech: The latest core technology (Macbook or Surface)

🪑 Remote working: You'll receive a ‘home office allowance’ of up to £500/€550 to help get set up with everything you need to succeed at home

🌍 Remote working: New: ‘work from anywhere for a month each year' policy in place should you wish to use it

👶 Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies

📚 Learning and development budget

💬 Social: Company-wide collaboration such as bi-weekly product demos, tech lunch’s, coffee with the exec sessions, book clubs, social events

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Refer a friend and get paid!

🥪 Lunch & learns with internal and external speakers

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.