Senior Data Engineer

Company Description

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's most loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team - and we’re a friendly bunch!

We’re proud to be one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK. Powered by data and a love of food, we’re a recipe box company that’s disrupting the sector, and we’re passionate about our diverse team and our customers.

All of our people are responsible for the success of Gousto, and we’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment for all to thrive. Our guiding values - Dream, Deliver and Care - show our commitment to innovation, our ambition to hit goals at speed, and our deep respect for the people we work with.

Job Description

Location: London, Hybrid 

We are seeking a talented Data Engineer to join one of our customer-facing tribes, where you'll play a key role in enabling data-driven insights and decision-making. In this position, you will work across all squads within the tribe, ensuring that analysts, data scientists, and other stakeholders have seamless access to high-quality, scalable data to support model development, analytics, and dashboard creation. By deeply understanding the tribe's data needs, you will help create robust solutions that empower teams to leverage data effectively.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role, as you will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, and data governance experts to align on requirements and goals. Additionally, you will partner with data engineers from other tribes and the centralised data platform team to establish and uphold best practices and standards. Your expertise will ensure that data engineering needs are fully integrated into the planning process, supporting the delivery of impactful, scalable data solutions across the organisation.

Core Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in the development of Gousto-wide data engineering best practices.
• Work with software engineers to ensure that data engineering best practices are adopted within the tribe.
• Design and roll out new data engineering pipelines and services.
• Improve existing data engineering pipelines and services.
• Define and implement MLOps best practices for data science products.
• Champion data quality by developing processes and systems to maintain data integrity.
• Advise the tribe management team on the required data engineering capabilities for all OKR work as part of the planning process.

Who you are

•  Experience in a senior data engineering or data platform engineer role, with a highly developed understanding of distributed computing systems, using Spark or PySpark
• Experience working with a number of analytics based services across modern cloud technologies, such as AWS
• Fluent in Python and SQL
• Experience with Databricks (other modern data warehouses are relevant too)
• Experience administering AWS services using IaC toolsets (we use Terraform, but others are relevant)
• Experience with modern data deployments using version control, CI/CD tooling and testing frameworks
• The ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, with proven experience in articulating technical concepts
• Experience managing projects from a design and implementation perspective and ensuring this is communicated fluidly to stakeholders
• The ability to understand stakeholder requirements and implement these into data services
• Passionate about data with a demonstrable attention to detail, evidence of a problem-solving mindset, and a positive attitude
• Experience working closely with Data Scientists to understand and deliver data requirements
• Experience with deploying and monitoring machine-learning algorithms in production
• Exposure to any of the following would be useful, but not essential: Data Mesh, Spark streaming, Experimentation

Additional Information

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Gousto is for everyone:

Whether it’s creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equality in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.

Everyone is welcome and we’re looking for applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. 

Excited but wondering if you tick every box? We recommend applying anyway so that we can review your profile . And, if you’re in a job share, why not just apply as a pair.

For our roles outside of Operations, most of our people spend 1 or 2 days in our offices every week, combining the benefits of flexibility and time together with colleagues. We want to enable you to do your best work, and if you require additional flexibility, please talk to us about it.

If you have a disability that you’re worried will affect you during the interview process, please let us know and we will do our best to help you feel comfortable.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please let us know. 

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