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Data Engineer - Hometrack

Houseful
London
9 months ago
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At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home.

Do the best work of your life!

Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa and Prime Location. Together we're creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.

We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions, and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.

At Hometrack, our Data Services product team is looking for an experienced Data Engineer, to help us bring new products to market by solving interesting technical problems and delivering high quality cloud-native solutions.

Our customers use our services to make decisions, or to enable their consumers to make decisions. And few decisions are as important as someone’s home. Here at Hometrack, we are building the tools to make those decisions easier to make.

We need a passionate Data Engineer to join our team and help us build our next generation data platform and pipelines, working cross-functionally with Houseful’s Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Data Scientists.

As a Data Engineer you will have an exciting and varied set of responsibilities:

  • Building out the core data platform on Databricks (writing Terraform, deploying infrastructure)
  • Supporting Data Scientists in delivering ML-created products by ensuring access to data and supporting the deployment of models to production.

Desirable tech skills:

  • Python, Spark
  • Experience in the Cloud, preferably AWS
  • Terraform, or similar IaC
  • SQL, NoSQL
  • Experience building out data warehouses and building data pipelines
  • Experience with Data platform solutions: ideally Databricks, or Snowflake
  • Nice to have: Docker (ECS/Kubernetes) & Orchestration tools (AWS Step Functions, Airflow, Dagster)

There’s always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don’t be put off if you don’t have all of these skills and experiences. It’s more important that you’re passionate about our mission to improve the home moving and owning experience for everyone.

Benefits

  • Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
  • 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
  • Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
  • Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
  • Cycle to work and electric car schemes
  • Free Calm App membership
  • Enhanced Parental leave
  • Fertility Treatment Financial Support
  • Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
  • Gym on-site in London
  • 7.5% pension contribution by the company
  • Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
  • Talent referral bonus up to £5K
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