Data Engineer

Our mission at BridgeU is to help students find a university and course that best matches their preferences and potential, giving them the tools to explore tertiary education opportunities all over the world. In order to fulfil this mission we handle a vast amount of data, from the universities, third party providers, and schools. As we grow and scale, so do our analytics needs.

Our data team is core to the company. We are responsible for collecting information from universities, making sure it is accurate and complete, transforming and loading it through the data pipeline into our product and, combined with our recommendation engine, provide students with insights into their prospects. We are also involved in helping the business understand our current student engagement data and draw insights that inform product development and the company strategy.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to complement our team composed of data scientists, data engineers, and data collectors. You'll be responsible for maintaining and expanding our data pipeline and data warehouse, coming up with innovative and efficient ways to collect, store, and move data across different platforms, and ensuring quality of the data we provide to customers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data from multiple external sources
• Build and maintain infrastructure around new and existing data services on Google Cloud and AWS
• Build or research tools to improve data collection, processing, and analytics across the business
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
• Ensure data quality and integrity, as well as maintain a high level of awareness about data and application security
  

• A competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays, plus your birthday off
• Employer’s pension scheme
• Opportunities for flexible working hours, encouraging everyone to have a healthy work-life balance
• Company-funded social events
• Investment into your professional development and opportunities for career progression
• A comfortable office space in London for those who wish to use it

• A range of attractive benefits and corporate discounts

• Access to confidential counselling as well as financial and legal advice from our Employee Assistance Programme
• An open and democratic work culture where everyone can contribute, learn and teach
• Company-paid subscription to Calm

• An initial screening call with our head of engineering lasting half an hour, to understand culture fit and, if successful.
• A 90 minutes technical interview, consisting of you showing some of your code from a personal project or open source contribution, followed by a pair programming exercise.