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Data Engineer

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You will design and optimise systems that process large-scale blockchain and off-chain datasets, enabling organisations worldwide to make trusted, data-driven decisions. Whether you join one of our platform-focused teams or those that work directly on product data, you will tackle challenges spanning batch and streaming processing, building high-quality, scalable solutions for a rapidly evolving ecosystem. You will fit right in if you enjoy writing clean, well-tested, efficient code, use data and experimentation to make informed decisions, and are curious about new technologies including AI and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain distributed data pipelines using Scala, Spark, and cloud technologies
  • Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable data systems
  • Design and optimise data ingestion and transformation workflows across blockchain and traditional datasets
  • Ensure accuracy, scalability, and efficiency in systems processing hundreds of millions of daily data points
  • Evaluate design options and trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, and cost
  • Contribute to the full lifecycle of data platform development from design and deployment to continuous improvement
  • Strengthen pipeline reliability, observability, and automation through code and tooling improvements
  • Grow influence and take on greater responsibility as understanding of distributed systems and platform architecture deepens

Requirements

  • Experience delivering and maintaining distributed data pipelines
  • Practical knowledge of Spark, Databricks, or similar big data frameworks
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Understanding of data-architecture trade-offs, such as scalability, resilience, and observability
  • Interest or experience in functional programming
  • Experience in streaming processing concepts like delivery semantics, ordering or partitioning
  • Hands-on work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • Knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
  • An interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, or a desire to learn
  • Experience applying AI or automation within deployed services

Benefits

  • Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
  • £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
  • $1,000 Learning & Development budget
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
  • An extra day off for your birthday
  • Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks of fully paid leave
  • Private Health Insurance (Vitality)
  • Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
  • Life Assurance covering 4 times your salary
  • Cycle to Work Scheme

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